ESG Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Buildings and real estate are significant contributors to the global climate challenge, accounting for nearly 40% of carbon emissions, according to the International Energy Agency and UN Environment Programme. They are also among the hardest sources of emissions to replace, given their long-term nature.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

Climate action that puts people first is top of the agenda, from health and equity to tackling embodied carbon (greenhouse gases – or GHGs– predominantly caused by the construction industry through manufacturing, installations, maintenance and transportation of building materials).

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Earlier this month, NGO Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE) published the second edition of its EU Buildings Climate Tracker (EU BCT) , which monitors the decarbonisation progress of EU building stock towards the goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. CEE countries require 5.7

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In 2015 after COP21, when the Paris Climate Accord was adopted, we knew we needed to reduce GHG emissions rapidly. The need for buildings continues to grow, and with it, the operational carbon emissions associated with operating buildings and the embodied carbon associated with the life cycle of the building products is growing.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 28, 2023

CDL achieved a 10% reduction in total operational carbon emissions across all its business operations in Singapore compared to 2021. CDL also achieved a 22% reduction in embodied carbon emissions compared to the conventional equivalents.

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Triple Bottom Line CDP Net Zero Embodied Carbon 130

Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

It was a revelation reminiscent of Volkswagen’s 2015 emissions reduction scandal. Thousands of structures that earned high EPC ratings were still emitting lots of carbon due to shortcomings in the ranking system. “If But life-cycle analysis will be mandatory by the end of the decade.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

While the level of emissions within the sector are 10 per cent lower than in 2015, reaching lows not seen since 2007, this was largely due to lockdowns, slowing of economies, difficulties households and businesses faced in maintaining and affording energy access and a fall in construction activity. per cent compared to 2019.

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