Somente hoje a intensidade se aquietou e a pausa chegou para mim, e me permitiu...

Climate Reality 1 year ago

Somente hoje a intensidade se aquietou e a pausa chegou para mim, e me permitiu refletir sobre cada experiência vivida no Reality Tour Rio, treinamento de lideranças climáticas realizado pelo The Climate Reality Project no final de semana passado. 🌿Esse treinamento reacendeu um sentimento que eu não lembrava mais o que eram: os sonhos. Sim, é possível sonhar, é possível realizar nossos sonhos, tanto individuais quanto coletivos. ✨Reencontrar e conhecer pessoalmente pessoas tão incríveis, ouvir vivências tão potentes, abraçar e conversar com a Ministra do Meio Ambiente me traz a certeza de que eu, e todos aqueles que estão se movimentando cotidianamente em pequenas, médias e grandes iniciativas/ações, estamos no caminho certo nessa luta por justiça climática. Para além de participante, ter a oportunidade de ser uma das mestres de cerimônia desse encontro foi uma das minhas experiências mais desafiadora, significativa e prazerosa. Foi uma vivência única, que guardarei com muito carinho e alegria 💜 Gostaria de deixar um enorme agradecimento a todos que construíram esse evento extraordinário, pelo apoio da equipe de produção do evento, pelo convite e pela confiança do @climatereality e @climaterealitybrasil em mim, pelas mensagens de carinho que tenho recebido e por todos aqueles que vêm vibrando junto comigo. Muito obrigada!

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Severe Himalayan flooding exposed systemic infrastructure risk, cutting Nepal’s hydropower output by more than a tenth and confirming that resilience is fundamental to sustainable construction and environmental sustainability in construction.

Catchment-scale planning, diversified energy portfolios and redundancy in critical systems must sit alongside siting, access and social equity to keep projects viable. Policy momentum is shifting toward integrating adaptation into core planning, with procurement and finance required to price climate risk across whole asset lives through whole life carbon assessment, lifecycle assessment and life cycle cost analysis.

Targets for whole life carbon and embodied carbon should be locked into briefs and contracts, with BREEAM and BREEAM v7 used to embed building lifecycle performance, life cycle thinking in construction and sustainable building design.

Reconstruction that embraces green infrastructure, nature-based buffers and community-led recovery can avoid the “build–break–rebuild” loop. Circular economy in construction, circular construction strategies and end-of-life reuse in construction should guide material choices, supported by environmental product declarations (EPDs), sustainable material specification and low embodied carbon materials to cut the carbon footprint of construction. Eco-design for buildings, low carbon design and resource efficiency in construction are now baseline for energy-efficient buildings, green construction and eco-friendly construction.

US safety clearance for a mile‑deep nuclear reactor design signals decentralised, climate-resilient, low‑carbon power for energy‑intensive cement and steel, hardening supply for data‑rich construction workflows. Reliable clean baseload can accelerate decarbonising the built environment, enable net zero carbon buildings and net zero whole life carbon pathways, support carbon neutral construction and deliver measurable carbon footprint reduction with renewable building materials and green building materials in low carbon building programmes.

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