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Green building labels need a renovation

Corporate Knights

In North America, academics and environmentalists have criticized LEED’s approach because developers could game it out, running up their score by adding cosmetic features (e.g., bike parking) that don’t really improve a building’s carbon footprint. By 2030, they’ll no longer be optional.

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University of Tasmania: Green Bond-Supported Campus Redevelopment

Sustainable Development Network

A key performance indicator from our Emissions Reduction Strategic Plan 2022-2030 requires a minimum 50% reduction in gross emissions across all material sources as reported to maintain our Australian Government Climate Active carbon neutral certification.

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Net zero concrete initiative appraises first year of action

Envirotec Magazine

With diverse membership from across the concrete and construction value chain, ConcreteZero has three ambitious targets: to deliver 30% low carbon concrete by 2025, 50% low carbon concrete by 2030 and net zero concrete by 2050. Steel is used to reinforce concrete, increasing levels of embodied carbon.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. There is a $4-trillion annual gap in addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Instead, I found myself in the thick of climate change’s brutal reality,” she says.

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