As our founder and chairman @AlGore said yesterday: For climate advocates...

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As our founder and chairman @AlGore said yesterday: For climate advocates across the country, the outcome of this election means that all of us must find ways to redouble our efforts and find bipartisan solutions to the climate crisis that create jobs, promote prosperity and safeguard the future of humanity. In a moment such as this, it is important to remember that all major reform efforts, from civil rights to the climate movement, suffer dark days. And this is surely one. We can mourn a loss, but we can’t linger in despair. Our planet doesn’t have time for that. Now more than ever, this movement needs engagement and leadership from all corners of the country. During a down moment in the struggle for civil rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. said something about overcoming days like this: “If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.” We know the line to solutions is never straight or easy. But we have won major victories in tackling the climate crisis and reducing climate pollution in our country, and we will again. My greatest source of hope comes from the courage and commitment of grassroots leaders and advocates in the U.S. and around the world who are relentlessly pushing for progress. Onward.

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Homes England’s backing of a multi-million-pound Richborough debt facility shows that sustainable construction is entering a more exacting phase in which finance, planning and build-out matter as much as innovation. Public support is becoming central to decarbonising the built environment because sustainable building design, sustainable design and eco-design for buildings cannot scale without patient capital and a dependable pipeline. Schemes that advance will need credible whole life carbon assessment, lifecycle assessment and life cycle cost evidence, with far closer scrutiny of whole life carbon, embodied carbon, embodied carbon in materials and the carbon footprint of construction to support net zero carbon buildings and net zero whole life carbon targets.

SDCL Efficiency’s planned wind-down is a sharp warning that low carbon building and energy-efficient buildings are not automatically a bankable proposition, even where environmental sustainability in construction is compelling. The Considerate Constructors’ Scheme’s revised checklist and scoring model in the UK and Ireland raises the bar for measurable responsible construction, strengthening demand for BREEAM, BREEAM v7 and stronger building lifecycle performance. Developers and contractors that can prove circular economy and circular economy in construction principles, life cycle thinking in construction, resource efficiency in construction, sustainable material specification, environmental product declarations (EPDs), low embodied carbon materials and end-of-life reuse in construction will be better placed to deliver green construction, eco-friendly construction and sustainable building practices with commercial durability.

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