Extreme heat in India has killed at least 77 people over the past 10 days, including dozens of poll workers, as voting wrapped up in the world’s largest general election.
At least 33 poll workers died in a single day in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, the state’s chief election officer, Navdeep Rinwa, told reporters Sunday. Their families will receive $18,000 each in compensation, he said.
The country often experiences heat waves during the summer months of May and June, but in recent years they have arrived earlier and become more prolonged. Experts say the climate crisis is only going to cause more frequent and longer heat waves in the future, testing India’s ability to adapt.
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Regulation is tightening around building lifecycle performance, comfort, roofing, flooring and material choices. The Future Homes Standard, BREEAM and BREEAM v7 are reinforcing the need for environmental sustainability in construction through better fabric efficiency, eco-design for buildings and sustainable material specification. Developers face growing scrutiny over the carbon footprint of construction, embodied carbon in materials, life cycle cost and evidence-led procurement using environmental product declarations (EPDs), low embodied carbon materials and low carbon construction materials.
Global clean-tech manufacturing capacity, led by China, could make renewable technologies and green building products more accessible as renewable capacity expands towards 2035. Supply-chain risk remains material, placing greater value on circular economy principles, circular economy in construction, resource efficiency in construction and end-of-life reuse in construction. Green construction is becoming an industrial procurement challenge, not a niche specification.
Climate adaptation is now inseparable from decarbonising the built environment. Heatwaves, flooding and coastal risk are forcing sustainable architecture, green infrastructure and sustainable urban development to address resilience as well as carbon footprint reduction. The next test for the sector is net zero whole life carbon delivered through sustainable building practices, circular construction strategies, renewable building materials and credible low-impact construction built for a climate already changing.
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