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
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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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