🌎 During the @climatereality 56th Leadership Training, I was honored to...

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🌎 During the @climatereality 56th Leadership Training, I was honored to attend a roundtable with @algore along with the @climaterealityeurope and @climaterealityitalia coordinators and few other speakers. What about @climatereality? 🌎 Here another post to share more about the great work resulting from the training and the many wonderful people involved. 🌎 The Climate Reality Project, founded by former US Vice President Al Gore, is dedicated to driving global solutions to the climate crisis. We recruit, train, and mobilize people from all walks of life to advocate for just climate solutions, aiming for a swift transition to net zero emissions and a sustainable future for all. ‼️ This year there will be only for @climaterealityitalia more than 300 more Leaders led by National Volunteer Coordinator @paola.fiore who won this year’s Green Ring Award. We are all very proud of her work! ✨ These training welcome presentations and sessions on #storytelling, local realities, #activism, and #stakeholdermapping 📌 Many outstanding organizations attended such as @matteo.ward from @fash_rev_italia, @futurevox, @greenpeace_ita, @a.sud_, @recommon, @legambiente, and other experts from ICLEI, @copernicusecmwf, or even Mayors @matteoleporebo @cittadibologna and @robertogualtieri @roma. 🌳 Check out the project and how you can contribute! More training can come your way. ⏱️ How can you participate in the meantime? Check out the social media pages and take part in our activities! 👆🏻 #LeadWithClimateReality

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Sustainable construction is entering the mainstream with new models proving that low carbon design and resource efficiency in construction can operate at scale. The 113‑home Zero Bills neighbourhood in Epping Forest integrates energy generation and storage into the fabric of housing, redefining sustainable building design through a decentralised microgrid that removes household energy bills for at least ten years. This approach demonstrates how net zero carbon buildings can merge renewable building materials, circular economy strategies and life cycle thinking in construction into practical delivery.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is consulting on a new standard for residential stock condition surveys to improve data integrity for lifecycle assessment and whole life carbon assessment. Reliable information on asset performance underpins mass retrofit, accurate valuation and credible risk modelling, all essential to reducing the embodied carbon of the UK’s housing stock and the overall carbon footprint of construction.

UKGBC’s latest Trends Report identifies a shift from climate declarations to tangible delivery, with sustainable building practices judged by disclosure and performance metrics including life cycle cost. This data-driven transition aligns with emerging frameworks for BREEAM v7 and net zero whole life carbon assessments, enhancing accountability across investors and developers.

Water management is being reframed as critical infrastructure in sustainable urban development. Integrated sustainable drainage systems are now core to eco-friendly construction, mitigating both drought and flood risk while advancing green infrastructure and whole life carbon optimisation. The move from isolated interventions to systems-based eco-design for buildings is reinforcing resilience within local planning policy.

Government investment through Great British Railways and bus network upgrades is generating a procurement pipeline that can embed carbon neutral construction and sustainable material specification. These programmes present opportunities to demonstrate circular construction strategies, environmental product declarations (EPDs) and low embodied carbon materials in major works.

International collaboration through InnovateUkraine extends UK expertise in environmental sustainability in construction to post-conflict resilience. The £17 million investment will foster modular, low carbon building systems designed for rapid deployment and rebuild, advancing circular economy in construction principles and end-of-life reuse in construction.

Global data from the United Nations reinforces the urgency of decarbonising the built environment. The environmental impact of construction—through embodied carbon, operational emissions and unaccounted waste—carries quantifiable social and economic costs. Zero Bills housing and similar models show how sustainable design, life cycle cost evaluation and whole life carbon consideration can transform the industry from aspiration to accountable delivery.

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