As the world warms, what happens to the extra heat and carbon dioxide? Hint:...

NASA Climate Change 1 year ago

As the world warms, what happens to the extra heat and carbon dioxide? Hint: 🌊 Swipe through for the details ➡️ #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Heat #GreenhouseGas #Ocean #CarbonDioxide #OceanWarming #OceanAcidification Image Descriptions (1 of 2): 1: View of Earth from space cutting across diagonally so that Earth is taking up the bottom right corner. A thin red stripe stretches above the atmosphere and fades at one end. White text on the slide reads: As the world warms, what happens to the extra heat and CO2? 2: White text over an image of Earth from space. A smaller panel on the right shows a bright red swath taken from a sea surface temperature data visualization. Text reads: As more greenhouse gases are added to Earth’s atmosphere, our planet gets warmer. Most of this heat is absorbed by the ocean. 3: A haze of bright red covers most of the image. The red fades into orange and yellow towards the top. White text reads: So far, the ocean has absorbed around 90% of the added heat from decades of global warming. 4: Satellite image of Earth. A tan strip of land lines the left side. A blue-green ocean swirls on the right. White text on screen reads: As the ocean warms, it alters the global climate – from global temperature to weather patterns to sea level. (Descriptions continued in the comments)

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Momentum in sustainable construction is uneven but accelerating as firms realign toward low carbon design, embodied carbon reduction and whole life carbon assessment. Mapei’s sector outlook places energy-efficient buildings and residential retrofits at the centre of recovery strategies, where life cycle cost and resource efficiency in construction drive both environmental and economic gains. These developments signal that decarbonising the built environment demands more than new projects; it relies on sustainable building design integrating circular economy in construction principles and eco-design for buildings that lower the carbon footprint of construction.

Despite this transition, data from the PMI indicate persistent weakness in traditional markets, intensifying the pressure on businesses to adopt sustainable building practices and green construction methods. Limited large-scale investment in net zero carbon buildings and low embodied carbon materials constrains growth. Financial fragility among small firms is slowing innovation in renewable building materials and circular construction strategies needed to achieve true net zero whole life carbon outcomes.

Practical demonstrations such as the adaptive reuse of Bacon Mews House exemplify sustainable architecture focused on embodied carbon in materials and end-of-life reuse in construction. These projects demonstrate how whole life carbon performance and lifecycle assessment can underpin sustainable urban development, transforming heritage spaces into low carbon buildings aligned with BREEAM and modern eco-friendly construction criteria. They prove that environmental sustainability in construction depends on measurable building lifecycle performance, not rhetoric.

Governments adopting circular economy policies and incentivising green building materials show that sustainable material specification and environmental product declarations (EPDs) can make decarbonising the built environment a market reality. Those clinging to outdated procurement frameworks risk undermining carbon footprint reduction and life cycle thinking in construction. The sector’s future resilience lies in embedding environmental impact of construction metrics into every phase, ensuring sustainable design delivers carbon neutral construction and low-impact construction from concept to completion.

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