🇧🇷: Se o primeiro dia preparou o cenário, o segundo dia do...

Climate Reality 1 year ago

🇧🇷: Se o primeiro dia preparou o cenário, o segundo dia do #TheRealityTour no Rio trouxe o impulso. @AlGore se juntou a Mercedes Bustamante, Carlos Nobre e Thelma Krug para responder às questões da ciência climática que mais nos preocupam. A Ministra Marina Silva e Karenna Gore seguiram com uma conversa inesquecível sobre ação moral, justiça e o poder das soluções comunitárias. À tarde, os participantes participaram de sessões de debates sobre a desmistificação da COP, o fortalecimento da ação climática nos territórios brasileiros e o uso da narrativa como uma poderosa ferramenta de advocacy. Encerramos com a feira de parceiros e a recepção à comunidade — um espaço para conexão, colaboração e ação. Nada disso seria possível sem os incríveis Líderes da Realidade Climática, mentores e nossa equipe da filial brasileira, que dão vida a esses treinamentos. E a energia não para por aqui. Dia 3, vamos lá. 🇺🇸: If Day 1 set the stage, Day 2 of #TheRealityTour in Rio brought the momentum. Al Gore joined Mercedes Bustamante, Carlos Nobre, and Thelma Krug to answer the climate science questions weighing on us most. Minister Marina Silva and Karenna Gore followed with an unforgettable conversation on moral action, justice, and the power of community solutions. In the afternoon, attendees stepped into breakout sessions on demystifying COP, strengthening climate action from Brasil territories, and using storytelling as a powerful advocacy tool. We closed with the partner fair and community reception — a space for connection, collaboration, and action. None of this is possible without the incredible Climate Reality Leaders, mentors, and our Brasil branch staff who make these trainings come alive. And the energy doesn’t stop here. Day 3, let’s go. #TheRealityTour #ThisIsReality #LeadWithClimateReality #Brasil #Rio

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The sustainable construction agenda is shifting from headline innovation to measurable delivery across buildings, infrastructure and finance. The World Green Building Council’s Advancing Net Zero work, set against IRENA’s warning that electrification and renewables remain too slow, reinforces the need for net zero carbon buildings backed by cleaner grids, heat electrification and stable policy.

Certification alone will not deliver net zero whole life carbon. The sector needs whole life carbon assessment, lifecycle assessment and life cycle thinking in construction to guide sustainable building design, low carbon design and credible decarbonising the built environment.

The UK debate over the Boiler Upgrade Scheme is therefore material to environmental sustainability in construction. Any reduction in support for heat pumps would slow one of the clearest routes to cutting operational emissions in existing homes. Energy-efficient buildings require long-term policy certainty, robust life cycle cost analysis and practical sustainable building practices, not fragmented incentives. Green construction must be judged by building lifecycle performance, carbon footprint reduction and the carbon footprint of construction, including embodied carbon, embodied carbon in materials and the specification of low embodied carbon materials.

Climate adaptation is now becoming core construction policy. A £1.6m programme to install flood-resilience measures in 100 East Midlands homes after Storms Babet and Henk shows resilience retrofit moving into mainstream housing delivery. The River Trent restoration analysis, indicating £10bn in economic gains and more than £7 of benefit for every £1 invested, strengthens the case for green infrastructure, sustainable urban development and nature-based investment as serious economic strategy.

Future growth in construction will need to align with circular economy principles, circular economy in construction, resource efficiency in construction and circular construction strategies. Low carbon construction materials, renewable building materials, green building materials, green building products and environmental product declarations (EPDs) will become central to sustainable material specification and eco-design for buildings. New building demand that ignores flood risk, heat demand, end-of-life reuse in construction and the wider environmental impact of construction risks creating stranded assets. Sustainable architecture, eco-friendly construction and low-impact construction are entering a stricter phase, where BREEAM, BREEAM v7 and whole life carbon performance will matter as much as planning consent, capital cost and short-term market recovery.

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