✨Oficialmente Climate Reality Leader! 🟢 No último final de semana ,...

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✨Oficialmente Climate Reality Leader! 🟢 No último final de semana , estive no Rio de Janeiro para uma missão muito especial: participar do treinamento para me tornar um Climate Reality Leader do @climatereality. O Al Gore e o Climate Reality tiveram uma influência muito importante na minha trajetória e no entendimento sobre engajamento no combate à crise climática. Foi ainda mais especial vê-lo ao lado da Marina Silva, que não me canso de dizer, é sempre minha inspiração e o motivo pelo qual sigo inconformado, porém esperançoso, acreditando e lutando por mudanças que façam diferença. Desde 2014, quando o primeiro e único treinamento tinha sido realizado no Brasil, eu aguardava a oportunidade de participar dele presencialmente (e receber o famigerado pin verde rs). Este segundo encontro reuniu 1000 pessoas vindas de todas as regiões do país e do mundo. Ativistas, comunicadores e lideranças que já transformam suas realidades. Foi uma experiência única estar cercado por tanta gente comprometida e inspiradora. Foram dias intensos de palestras, painéis e workshops, com apresentação de ferramentas e redes que podem nos ajudar a ser parte da mudança que o mundo precisa. Muitas vezes, quando confrontados com os alarmantes dados da crise climática, nos sentimos realmente impotentes. Por isso, foi extremamente motivador estar em contato com tantas experiências diferentes, ouvindo discursos inspiradores e realistas e trocando com pessoas que fazem a diferença em seus territórios. Marina nos relembrou a potência que é sonhar com um mundo melhor. Que o sonho é a matéria mais concreta da realidade e que persegui-lo é um dever ético e moral. E Al Gore apontou diversas vezes que a crise climática é uma crise de vontade política. E vontade política é um recurso renovável, pelo qual podemos pressionar, lutar e mudar. O desafio é grande, mas é bom demais saber que não estamos sozinhos. Seguiremos juntos, engajados, lutando até o fim em defesa da ciência, do meio ambiente, das pessoas e do planeta. 🌱🌳🌎 #ClimateReality #JustiçaClimática #CriseClimática #ClimaÉPolítica #RedeSustentabilidade #MarinaSilva #COP30 #Ativismo #Sustentabilidade #BoraConstruirJuntos

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The construction sector is entering a decisive stage in its push toward sustainable building design, shaped by new policy advocacy, improved regulation, and demonstrable industry commitments. The Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP) has formally supported the Architects Climate Action Network’s Circular Economy Policy Campaign, a move signalling broader acceptance of circular economy principles as central to environmental sustainability in construction. The focus on reuse, adaptability, and end‑of‑life reuse in construction reflects a maturing understanding that the carbon footprint of construction extends across a building’s entire lifespan. Introducing whole life carbon assessment as part of standard design processes is becoming a practical necessity for both cost management and long‑term resilience.

Equans UK & Ireland’s status as a Building a Safer Future (BSF) Champion highlights how sustainable design and accountability increasingly overlap with safety and social responsibility. The company’s recognition shows that decarbonising the built environment demands organisation‑wide transparency backed by measurable sustainability targets. Integrating lifecycle assessment across the supply chain ensures that embodied carbon in materials and operations is quantified and reduced. This shift towards low carbon design complements broader frameworks such as BREEAM and the forthcoming BREEAM v7 updates, both reinforcing the importance of life cycle thinking in construction.

Regulators are beginning to respond to industry calls for a streamlined approach that maintains ecological rigour while reducing unnecessary bureaucracy. The proposed reforms to environmental permits illustrate that practical compliance can coexist with high environmental performance when founded on evidence‑based life cycle cost analysis. Clear guidance on sustainable material specification and environmental product declarations (EPDs) can support consistent measurement of carbon footprint reduction across projects. This regulatory evolution encourages wider adoption of resource efficiency in construction, particularly as governments commit to net zero carbon and carbon neutral construction targets.

Recent research into circular economy in construction, inspired by modular telecoms infrastructure, demonstrates tangible potential for embodied carbon reduction. Applying circular construction strategies to wider sectors could significantly improve building lifecycle performance and deliver major financial and environmental savings. Modular, renewable building materials and low embodied carbon materials extend the service life of assets and underpin the shift to low‑impact construction models. As net zero whole life carbon frameworks become embedded, reuse and refurbishment will play equal roles alongside green building products and renewable design innovation.

The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions continue to fall, driven in part by energy‑efficient buildings, low carbon construction materials, and a stronger focus on whole life carbon metrics. Challenges remain in housing retrofits, supply chain emissions, and verifiable reporting, but sustainable building practices are advancing rapidly. The convergence of eco‑design for buildings, sustainable architecture, and green infrastructure shows that sustainability is no longer a niche aspiration but a defining measure of quality. Genuine progress depends on integrating evaluation tools, transparent data, and consistent application of sustainable construction principles so that every low carbon building actively contributes to the net zero carbon future the sector now strives to achieve.

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