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IMAGINE TODAS AS PESSOAS!!!! Gente, que experiência MARAVILHOSA! Encontrar pessoas que compartilham nossos valores, crenças e ambições por um futuro melhor para o planeta 🌎 é revigorante. Dá uma nova força para seguir lutando, mesmo quando o mundo tenta nos atropelar e silenciar nossas vozes. Foram três dias de IMERSÃO em conteúdos de ponta, com palestrantes inspiradores e colegas altamente motivados. Uma honra para a Clara de 14 anos que assistiu Uma Verdade Inconveniente do Mr. Gore pela primeira vez. Para a Clara de 25, que parou de comer carne por amor aos animais e se inspirou em Sir Paul McCartney. E também para a Clara de quase 34, que muitas vezes se sente impotente diante da imensidão do desafio. Mas acreditar que é possível mudar o futuro já é o início da solução. Inspirar quem está ao nosso lado multiplica os resultados. Agir localmente gera impacto global. 🌍 Obrigada, @theclimatereality e @algore, pela oportunidade que quero honrar com todo afinco. Agora sou uma Liderança Climática — e ninguém vai me segurar! 💚 Bora lá @climaterealitybrasil ⸻ 🌱 English Version IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE! What an INCREDIBLE experience! Meeting people who share the same values, beliefs, and ambitions for a better future for our planet 🌎 is truly energizing. It reignites our strength to keep fighting, even when the world tries to overwhelm us and silence our voices. I spent three full days IMMERSED in cutting-edge content, with inspiring speakers and highly motivated colleagues. It was an honor for 14-year-old Clara, who watched An Inconvenient Truth by Mr. Gore for the first time. For 25-year-old Clara, who stopped eating meat out of love for animals and was inspired by Sir Paul McCartney. And for almost-34 Clara, who often feels powerless in the face of such a massive challenge. But believing that change is possible is already the beginning of the solution. Motivating those around us amplifies the results. Acting locally has a global impact. 🌍 Thank you, @theclimatereality and @algore, for this opportunity that I intend to embrace fully. From now on, I am a Climate Leader — and nothing will hold me back! 💚 Let’s go @climaterealitybrasil

layersDaily Sustainability Digest

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The UK’s sustainable construction agenda is shifting from headline innovation to delivery at scale, with retrofit, electrified heat and climate resilience now central to decarbonising the built environment. The National Retrofit Hub’s call for a stronger retrofit system highlights a persistent gap between ambition and implementation: reliable skills, coherent standards, trusted advice and financeable programmes are still needed to cut the carbon footprint of construction across existing building stock.

Whole life carbon is becoming the defining measure of progress.

Retrofit strategies must be judged through whole life carbon assessment, embodied carbon, life cycle cost and lifecycle assessment, rather than short-term capital spend alone. Sustainable building design now depends on building lifecycle performance, low carbon design and sustainable material specification, including environmental product declarations (EPDs), low embodied carbon materials and greater resource efficiency in construction.

Nesta’s analysis that electricity bills are rising more slowly than gas strengthens the case for heat pumps, electrified building services and energy-efficient buildings. If the price gap continues, low carbon building upgrades will become easier to justify through household running costs as well as carbon footprint reduction. Net zero carbon buildings and net zero whole life carbon outcomes will rely on this practical alignment between policy, affordability and performance.

Climate adaptation is becoming part of environmental sustainability in construction. Planting, shading, passive cooling, ventilation and green infrastructure are now essential components of sustainable design and eco-design for buildings, not optional enhancements. The sector’s response to hotter summers must avoid locking in high-energy cooling demand and instead prioritise resilient, low-impact construction.

For commercial property owners, the next phase of ESOS must turn audits into investable decarbonisation plans. BREEAM, BREEAM v7, circular economy principles and circular construction strategies can help move projects from compliance to measurable performance. Sustainable building practices, end-of-life reuse in construction and circular economy in construction will define whether green construction becomes a scalable operating model or remains a collection of isolated initiatives.

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