✨ Durante a Climate Reality Tour no Rio tive a alegria de conhecer pessoalmente Al Gore, vice-presidente dos EUA e cuja liderança inspira há décadas o movimento climático.
Este encontro me fez relembrar uma caminhada muito especial. Em 2015, participei da criação do Programa Escolas Sustentáveis, o primeiro projeto de educação climática do Brasil, que teve seus resultados apresentados já na COP21 em Paris. 🌍
A partir de 2017, tive a sorte de contar com a parceria da minha amiga @renatamoraesrio, coordenadora do Climate Reality Project Brasil. Foi com ela que expandimos o programa de 6 escolas piloto para mais de 30, chegando a 40 escolas municipais até 2020, todas trabalhando com hortas orgânicas, energia solar, coleta seletiva e educação climática. 🌱
Esse trabalho coletivo trouxe resultados:
🏅 O Desafio do Clima, que mobilizou e sensibilizou mais de 100 jovens finalistas da rede pública municipal de ensino do Rio.
👧👦 A participação de estudantes no Diálogo Talanoa, no Museu do Amanhã, levando suas vozes até a ONU.
🌎 O reconhecimento internacional do C40 na publicação Cities100, que tinha como objetivo mapear, reconhecer e dar visibilidade às 100 iniciativas urbanas mais inovadoras do mundo na luta contra as mudanças climática.
📘 O apoio à formulação de projetos de lei para incluir a educação climática no currículo escolar do Rio.
Olhar para trás e ver essa trajetória reforça que, quando educação e clima caminham juntos, as parcerias se tornam o caminho para transformar desafios em oportunidades para as cidades e o futuro. ✨
The UK government has recognised that data centres are a material part of the national sustainability in construction agenda. Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee is examining energy use, water consumption and emissions, expanding the conversation beyond IT to whole life carbon.
The inquiry is expected to shape future planning policy, mandating developers to demonstrate lower embodied carbon in materials and to conduct whole life carbon assessments as part of sustainable building design. Data centre resilience against flood risk and stressed utilities reflects a shift towards life cycle cost management and environmental sustainability in construction.
Circular economy strategies are gaining commercial traction. Analysis in Scotland confirms that circular-economy employment delivers stronger value per hour, reinforcing the case for circular economy in construction, reuse and end-of-life reuse in construction. Pressure is growing for verified resource efficiency in construction through traceable waste governance and circular construction strategies.
The quality of recycled polymers is under review, and if recycling capacity falters, access to reliable green building products and low carbon construction materials will tighten. Contractors adopting sustainable building practices grounded in lifecycle assessment and environmental product declarations (EPDs) are better positioned to meet compliance expectations and secure green procurement advantages.
International data indicating lower emissions from China’s manufacturing sector signal a modest decline in the embodied carbon of imported building components. This supports life cycle thinking in construction and the pursuit of net zero whole life carbon outcomes. For developers aligning projects with BREEAM or BREEAM v7, reduced embodied carbon contributes directly to net zero carbon buildings and low carbon design benchmarks. As decarbonising the built environment becomes a planning prerequisite, evidence of carbon footprint reduction, renewable building materials and sustainable material specification is evolving from best practice to basic permission to build.
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