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20/10/2026

India’s green building materials sector is rich in innovation, but only a few solutions make the leap into mainstream https://zurl.co/Z6hqG materials need to earn confidence across the construction ecosystem, including developers, architects, contractors, regulators, financiers and customers.
Through the India Innovation Lab programme, GBPN is creating an ecosystem that brings together innovators, industry, investors and policymakers to support the wider uptake of sustainable materials.
There’s five factors that shape adoption of green materials - supply, proof, price, acceptance and service. How can this space be accelerated? Read the blog: https://zurl.co/k61fs

16/10/2026

A building efficiency guideline only matters if a city can actually use it. In Indonesia, that has been at the heart of GBPN’s work with South Tangerang and Balikpapan since 2023. Over the past three years, GBPN has worked alongside both cities to move from ambition to implementation, combining technical analysis, stakeholder consultations, policy dialogue and capacity building to develop practical approaches for improving building performance.

Just as importantly, the process brought together local governments, national ministries, academia, industry and technical experts, creating the coordination needed to make energy efficiency part of how cities grow and manage their buildings.

And the ownership stays with the cities. As Heru Agus Santoso, Regional Assistant II for Economic and Development of South Tangerang, put it: “This is a collective product developed together by stakeholders in South Tangerang.. It did not come from Jakarta. It comes from us.”

That is an important principle in GBPN’s approach: solutions need to be grounded in local context, while the lessons can travel. The experiences from South Tangerang and Balikpapan are now contributing to GBPN’s growing body of knowledge, helping shape approaches that can be adapted across Indonesia and beyond, and turning local experience into a resource for the next city ready to act.

https://zurl.co/2WpN9

15/10/2026

Centering people and community is essential in making a city sustainable and healthy.

In Beijing, View Unlimited Landscape Architects is working with residents to protect 400-year-old cultural heritage while using nature-based design to improve social well-being and strengthen community connection.

The focus is on creating healthier urban spaces that respond to the people who live in them, while preserving the identity and history that make communities feel connected to place.

This video is part of our Solutions Series 2026, featuring locally grounded solutions and the people driving change across the regions where we work.

13/10/2026

South Africa can't set a climate target for buildings it has never measured.

Buildings account for 20 to 25% of the country's emissions once electricity consumption is considered. But information about the energy use of high rise buildings, homes, informal settlements and smaller buildings, is scarcely available.

The South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI), with support from GBPN, is building a national building energy and emissions baseline, measured from real buildings across climate zones.

Swipe to see why the data gap matters, how the method works, and what measured baselines have already changed in Kenya and Indonesia.

12/10/2026

What does the business case for a sustainable built environment look like today?

Join us for our the second webinar in the Building Futures Forum - India Webinar Series, ‘The Developer Advantage: Building Sustainably’, for a discussion with industry leaders on:
- The business case for decarbonization
- Embedding sustainability into business strategy
- Creating value for customers and stakeholders
- Building an enabling ecosystem

Participants will also have the opportunity to book a complimentary virtual consultation with a GBPN expert after the webinar.

Join the conversation. Register today: https://zurl.co/0RHsU

09/10/2026

How do we move from individual projects and policy ambition to a market where greener buildings can be delivered at scale?

This was the focus of two conversations convened by GBPN and partners at the Indonesia International Sustainability Forum 2026 in Jakarta, bringing together government, industry, finance and other actors across the buildings sector.

Indonesia is not starting from scratch.

The Ministry of Housing and Settlement Areas’ Green and Affordable Housing (GAH) Roadmap provides a framework for making housing for low-income households not only affordable, but also decent, healthy, green and resilient. Meanwhile, the Green Building Roadmap sets out a phased approach to expanding green building implementation across Indonesia.

These frameworks establish where the sector needs to go. But a roadmap can only take the market so far. The next challenge is to connect ambition with the economics and practical realities of actual projects so that greener buildings can move from individual examples to something that can be delivered at scale.

We’ll keep building this conversation.

08/10/2026

For a fast-urbanising India, public health cannot be limited to what happens inside our homes.
A healthy neighbourhood should allow people to move safely, breathe cleaner air, find relief from heat, access nature and essential services, participate in community life and pursue livelihoods with dignity.

Yet urban risks are often addressed in silos, even though residents experience them altogether. Planning systems also tend to measure what can be regulated – land use, densities, road widths, setbacks and development controls. These matter, but they don’t tell us whether a neighbourhood is actually healthy, inclusive or resilient.

Planning must ultimately be measured by its outcomes: whether people can live, move, work and thrive safely in the places we build. By 2036, India’s towns and cities are expected to be home to 600 million people, therefore the choices we make today will shape how millions live for decades to come.

GBPN’s Healthy Urban Planning Guidelines will help public health policy become a part of the urban built environment. Read more: https://zurl.co/DWVn6

06/10/2026

How do we scale evidence-based solutions against extreme heat into action across the global south?
GBPN is at the Global Heat Forum 2026 in Bangkok this week, joining policymakers, practitioners, researchers, funders, community leaders and others working to address the growing heat crisis.

Across the Forum, we’ll be contributing to conversations on practical implementation, evidence and learning from what works on the ground:

6 October | 14:00–17:00
Parallel Breakout Session
Exploring the evidence behind landscape, built-environment and personal cooling interventions, and what influences their success.

7 October | 09:40–10:30
Plenary: What’s working and where interventions are saving lives and building heat resilience

7 October | 11:15–13:00
Parallel Breakout Session
Exploring whether effective heat interventions are reaching the people who need them, and identifying viable pathways for delivery.

8 October | 14:15–17:00
Parallel Breakout Session
Turning findings into practical investment priorities and identifying where investment can have the greatest impact.

9 October | 14:00–17:00
Training: A Bottom-Up Approach to Policy Reform

If you’re at the Forum, join the conversation on how we can turn evidence and experience into practical action on heat resilience.

30/09/2026

How can Indonesia turn ambition on sustainable buildings and housing into action?

GBPN will be at the Indonesia International Sustainability Forum 2026, hosting two side events focused on two essential pieces of the transition: green and affordable housing, and the financing and market conditions needed to scale green buildings.

We’ll be exploring how policy, housing development, finance and market action can come together to create buildings that are affordable, healthy, energy-efficient and climate-resilient, and how to make roadmaps that are implementable.

If you’re attending ISF, join us for an insightful session.

29/09/2026

Buildings can be low-carbon, affordable, and better living spaces, all at the same time. At , we made the case for investing in them.

GBPN works with policymakers to create policies that benefit both people and the planet, and we rally the private sector to implement these policies.

At the “Win-Win Policy: Unlocking Investment For Sustainable Buildings” event held during the , we joined a full house of attendees and a panel of partners doing great work on reducing emissions across different sectors, to share how we are accelerating the transformation of the buildings sector across regions.

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