## Specific objective 

The specific objective is to support the Commission in developing an EU roadmap for the reduction of whole life carbon, for embodied and operational carbon separately and combined, up to 2050. 

This roadmap shall be sufficiently robust and relevant to be able to serve as a basis and guidance to future policy and market developments for a long period of time and at different geographical levels - EU as well as national (taking into account the wide disparities in the progress of national policies across the EU),. It shall be directly linked to and consistent with other relevant existing EU strategies and policies and support the achievement of the overall climate objectives. It shall provide a vision and in this way set out the direction of travel for the sector and public authorities. To develop such a roadmap, robust and sufficient data, for across the EU, is needed. 

## 1.4.2. Detailed characteristics of the purchase (tasks) 

Due to the wide geographical coverage of this project, tenderers will need to demonstrate in their offers how they intend to deal with the multi-language aspect linked to the successful execution of the following tasks. 

## Task 1. Set up of stakeholder groups 

The objective of this study is to support the Commission in developing a roadmap for the reduction of whole life carbon, with a specific emphasis on embodied carbon. This roadmap shall be sufficiently robust and relevant to be able to serve as a basis and guidance to future policy and market developments, at different geographical levels. This will require a very strong collaborative process with relevant parts of the sector, the Commission and Member States, throughout each task, for gathering of data, for assessing future developments and for assessing reduction solutions. 

Immediately after contract signature, the contractor shall begin to set up suitable stakeholder groups for this process. New groups for this particular task will need to be efficient and fully relevant, but can be partly based on existing groups (formal and informal) such as the High Level Forum for Construction, the Concerted Action for implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and the previous Level(s) stakeholder groups, relevant working groups under the Climate Change Committee and stakeholder groups involved in the Bioeconomy Strategy and Circular Economy Action Plan. The contractor shall carefully consider which kind of stakeholders with what kind of knowledge and background will be needed, when to use them and for what purpose, and how to manage the process of this collaborative work. This process is absolutely key for the success of the study and the relevance of the final outcome, and shall be set out in the offer in a clear and concise manner. While it is the responsibility of the contractor to identify and invite stakeholders, set up the groups and manage them, the identification process will be done in collaboration with the European Commission, which will take the final decision. 

The result of this task includes the established stakeholder groups as needed and a clear and logic management process with a timeline which sets out the involvement and the detailed contributions expected of the groups (what, when, how) and which has been delivered to the groups. 

