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
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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
Europe’s transition accountants set the bar: BloombergNEF estimates the EU, UK and Norway must mobilise about $1.3 trillion per year to stay on track for net zero by mid‑century. Capital is pivoting to projects that prove demand reduction, resilience and audited performance, raising the premium on whole life carbon, whole life carbon assessment, lifecycle assessment and life cycle cost embedded in delivery, supported by environmental product declarations (EPDs) and verifiable data.
Portfolios aligned to net zero whole life carbon and decarbonising the built environment will clear investment committees faster, especially where sustainable building design reflects life cycle thinking in construction and aligns with breeam and anticipated breeam v7 requirements. Expect stronger scrutiny of embodied carbon and the carbon footprint of construction, with tighter performance guarantees and less tolerance for optimistic modelling.
Physical risk is now a design determinant. Severe floods in Nepal removed more than a tenth of national hydropower capacity in a week, underlining the limits of single‑technology strategies and historic baselines. Credible, sustainable design calls for diversified energy systems, including renewable generation, debris‑ and sediment‑tolerant assets, green infrastructure and watershed‑scale nature‑based measures, paired with specifications that reduce embodied carbon in materials while improving building lifecycle performance, carbon footprint reduction, the environmental impact of construction and low‑impact construction. Lenders and insurers are steering towards teams demonstrating sustainable building practices and sustainable architecture with bankable pathways to carbon neutral construction.
Digital waste tracking in the UK will impose radical transparency across construction supply chains. With end‑to‑end data, waste becomes both a liability and a tradable asset, accelerating the circular economy and circular economy in construction through design for disassembly, end‑of‑life reuse in construction, circular construction strategies and product passports. Expect rapid uptake of eco‑design for buildings, resource efficiency in construction and sustainable material specification, with greater use of low embodied carbon materials, renewable building materials, green building materials and green building products to reduce embodied carbon across retrofit and new build. The regulatory shift will reward firms that can evidence environmental sustainability in construction with robust datasets that unlock prequalification.
Early regulatory clearance for an underground micro‑reactor in the United States signals the coming of site‑adjacent, 24/7 low‑carbon heat and power for energy‑intensive materials plants and district energy. If proven at scale, such clean energy can enable low carbon construction materials, low carbon design for energy‑efficient buildings and low carbon building operations, supporting net zero carbon buildings across sustainable urban development and speeding net zero carbon delivery.
The direction of travel is unmistakable: sustainable construction grounded in whole life carbon, embodied carbon accountability and the circular economy is now the baseline for green construction, eco‑friendly construction and sustainability across every building and infrastructure programme.
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