Faith for Earth: Achievement Report

United Nations 3 years ago

These annual reports highlight the achievements of the Faith for Earth Initiative and progress made towards the attainment of its three overarching goals: 1) Strengthen Partnership with Faith-Based Organizations’ Leadership for Policy Impact 2) Green Faith-Based Organizations’ Investments, Operations and Assets 3) Establish an Accessible Knowledge-Based Support System These goals were formulated to support the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals and are intended to complement the holistic design of the SDGs. FBOs can positively contribute to sustainable development in comprehensive and diverse ways and the Initiative seeks to facilitate and catalyse these processes. This involves both broadly ensuring FBO’s work is aligned to the SDGs, as well as contextual engagement that embraces the particularities of each faith. Given that Faith for Earth is primarily a normative advocacy initiative, much of the work focuses on expanding its network of affiliated FBOs and forging productive partnerships. These diverse partnerships may consist of linking FBOs with other FBOs, actors in the private and business sectors or with bilateral and multilateral institutions. Join us on our journey.
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layersDaily Sustainability Digest

Published about 9 hours ago



This news batch contains no substantive sustainable construction development: no major breakthrough in low carbon construction materials, no new whole life carbon assessment mandate, no building-code reform, no retrofit programme, no procurement shift, no BREEAM v7 update and no significant project case study advancing net zero carbon buildings.

The relevant signal is indirect but important. COP31 debate over the timing of the next IPCC reports could shape the 2028 global stocktake, influencing national policy on whole life carbon, embodied carbon, lifecycle assessment, retrofit finance, planning standards and the carbon footprint of construction. Warnings over El Niño costs and weakening natural carbon sinks strengthen the case for climate-resilient, energy-efficient buildings, low carbon design and faster cuts to operational emissions and embodied carbon in materials.

For the construction sector, the absence is commercially revealing. Environmental sustainability in construction remains too often downstream of climate diplomacy rather than central to it, despite the built environment’s major role in energy demand, resource use and emissions. Sustainable building design, eco-design for buildings, circular economy in construction, sustainable material specification and building lifecycle performance need clearer policy treatment if governments are serious about decarbonising the built environment.

The practical agenda remains unchanged: net zero whole life carbon, credible environmental product declarations (EPDs), low embodied carbon materials, life cycle cost analysis, end-of-life reuse in construction, resource efficiency in construction and circular construction strategies must move from specialist practice into mainstream procurement. Without that shift, green construction and eco-friendly construction risk remaining policy aspirations rather than measurable progress in sustainable building practices.

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