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

Climate Reality 8 months 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

layersDaily Sustainability Digest

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Sustainable construction is entering a stricter commercial and accountability phase. SDCL Efficiency’s planned wind-down shows that retrofit and energy-efficient buildings are vulnerable when investor confidence weakens, even though they remain central to net zero carbon buildings and to decarbonising the built environment. The message is blunt: environmental sustainability in construction must prove life cycle cost, building lifecycle performance and durable returns, rather than rely on green construction narratives. Developers and asset owners face greater pressure to embed sustainable building design, low carbon design and lifecycle assessment across existing estates and new low carbon building projects.

The Considerate Constructors’ Scheme has revised its checklist and scoring model for the UK and Ireland, pushing procurement and site management towards measurable sustainable building practices. Stronger scrutiny should sharpen whole life carbon assessment, embodied carbon control and the management of embodied carbon in materials, low carbon construction materials and resource efficiency in construction. Homes England’s debt facility with Richborough confirms that housing delivery still dominates public policy. Faster build-out without equal focus on whole life carbon, circular economy in construction, life cycle thinking in construction and the carbon footprint of construction risks locking in avoidable emissions. For teams aligning projects with BREEAM and BREEAM v7, the direction is clear: eco-design for buildings, sustainable material specification, environmental product declarations (EPDs) and net zero whole life carbon are becoming core tests of sustainable design.

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