Company: LGIH
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001580670-25-000016
Chunk: 70

Company: LGI Homes, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 70
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 five years. The Paris Agreement requires the parties to complete a global stocktake, assessing members’ collective efforts and achievements in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change, every five years. On December 13, 2023, the 28th annual UN Climate Change Conference (“COP 28”) issued its first global stocktake, which calls on parties, including the

United States, to contribute to transitioning away from fossil fuels, reduce methane emissions, and increase renewable energy

capacity, amongst other things, to achieve net zero by 2050.  Despite the issuance of an executive order on January 20, 2025 initiating the process to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, we anticipate that a variety of legislation may be enacted or considered for enactment at the state and local levels relating to climate change and energy. This legislation could relate to, for example, matters such as greenhouse gas emissions control and building and other codes that impose energy efficiency standards or require energy saving construction materials. On June 1, 2022, the Biden Administration launched the National Initiative to Advance Building Codes, an initiative to modernize building codes, improve climate resilience, and reduce energy costs and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the “IRA 2022”), through various grants and tax incentives, encourages municipalities to adopt stricter energy codes, both of which could increase the cost to construct homes and cause 

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delays.  Pursuant to an executive order issued on January 20, 2025, the disbursement of funds appropriated under the IRA 2022 and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was paused.  

Certain state and local governments in areas such as California have passed, or are considering, legislation banning the use of natural gas-fired appliances in new homes, which could affect our costs to construct homes as well as consumer demand for the homes we construct. New building or other code requirements that impose stricter energy efficiency standards or requirements for building materials could significantly increase our cost to construct homes. As climate change concerns continue to grow, legislation, regulations, mandates, standards and other requirements of this nature are expected to continue to be enacted and become costlier for us to comply with. Similarly, energy-related initiatives affect a wide variety of companies throughout the United States and because our operations are heavily dependent on significant amounts of raw materials, such as lumber, steel, and concrete, these initiatives could have an adverse impact on our operations and profitability to the extent the manufacturers and suppliers of our materials are burdened with expensive cap