Hoje, 17, no Rio de Janeiro, concluí o treinamento internacional para líderes...

Climate Reality 1 year ago

Hoje, 17, no Rio de Janeiro, concluí o treinamento internacional para líderes da emergência climática, realizado pelo @climatereality e @climaterealitybrasil, sob a condução de @algore — ex-vice-presidente dos EUA e Prêmio Nobel da Paz. Ao longo do treinamento, tivemos ainda a honra de aprender com @marinasilvaoficial, @celia.xakriaba, além de cientistas, pesquisadores e lideranças que estão na linha de frente do combate aos extremos climáticos. Não dá pra seguir de braços cruzados e não incluir essa pauta na nossa agenda, seja ela através de pequenas ou grandes atitudes. Tenho certeza que ninguém quer passar pelo que o Rio Grande do a Sul passou em 2024 com sua maior enchente da história e sua reconstrução já ultrapassou os 100 bilhões de gastos só da parte do governo federal. “Você é o mundo”, já dizia o filósofo Jiddu Krishamurti. Essa frase, que sempre inspirou o meu movimento de trabalho desde os tempos da faculdade de Direito e até hoje dentro de tudo que promovi de eventos no caminho da expansão da consciência, o meu compromisso com a co-criação da realidade em que vivemos, ecoou mais forte nestes dia diante do desgaste do planeta. Somos todos parte desse mesmo mundo e se cada um fizer sua parte a gente melhora muita coisa e evita o pior! 💚 Gratidão pela oportunidade @climatereality @climaterealitybrasil ! Vamos juntos! #climatereality

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Climate damage and material waste are reshaping sustainable construction more forcefully than certification culture. The loss of 38 homes to wildfire in the Midlands has exposed the need for sustainable building design that treats fire resilience, flood resistance and passive survivability as core requirements. Shropshire fire crews’ warnings over escalating wildfire and flooding extremes underline a decisive shift for green construction: buildings must be designed for volatility, not historic weather patterns.

The UN’s warning that climate impacts could displace millions across South Asia raises direct implications for environmental sustainability in construction.

Large-scale migration would intensify pressure on housing delivery, infrastructure finance, sustainable urban development and supply chains for low carbon construction materials. Adaptation is now a construction pipeline issue, requiring life cycle thinking in construction, robust building lifecycle performance and a clearer link between resilience, life cycle cost and whole life carbon.

Materials innovation is moving towards the circular economy in construction. Plans for a wind turbine recycling facility at the Port of Inverness show renewable infrastructure confronting end-of-life reuse in construction. The sector’s claims on circular economy performance will increasingly depend on measurable circular construction strategies, resource efficiency in construction and sustainable material specification, not marketing language. Embodied carbon, embodied carbon in materials and the carbon footprint of construction must be assessed alongside operational energy if net zero carbon buildings and net zero whole life carbon targets are to be credible.

Research converting waste plastics, packaging and old CDs into polymer networks that harvest moisture from air points to future green building products and construction-adjacent materials for water-stressed regions. The science remains early stage, yet it supports the wider move towards low embodied carbon materials, renewable building materials where appropriate, and practical eco-design for buildings.

Laboratory findings showing duct tape outperforming sandbags as a flood defence reinforce a key lesson for sustainable architecture: resilience can come from inexpensive, rapidly deployable measures as well as major green infrastructure. The direction is clear. Sustainable construction is expanding beyond carbon accounting into whole life carbon assessment, lifecycle assessment, low carbon design, circular economy principles and climate practicality. The strongest projects will combine energy-efficient buildings, lower embodied carbon, carbon footprint reduction and durable adaptation to a harsher world.

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