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IKEA Foundation Donates $25M To Transform Cooling Sector and Improve Billions of Lives

3BL Media

This week has been an eye-opener for the dramatic and devastating effects caused by the climate crisis with record temperatures, raging fires and the inevitable deaths among the more vulnerable. The effects of the climate crisis are becoming more tangible by the day. billion people at risk due to a lack of access to cooling.

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New report says the building and construction sector can reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050

Envirotec Magazine

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.