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Net zero concrete initiative appraises first year of action

Envirotec Magazine

5 th July marked one year since the launch of ConcreteZero , a global, industry-led initiative to achieve net zero concrete by 2050. Concrete production accounts for 8% of global annual carbon emissions – if it were a country, it would rank somewhere between the US and India in terms of its carbon footprint.

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University of Tasmania: Green Bond-Supported Campus Redevelopment

Sustainable Development Network

The Net Zero on Campus: From Principles to Action initiative, a collaborative effort between SDSN, the Climateworks Centre, and Monash University, aims to facilitate the sharing of lessons and resources to accelerate the decarbonization of university campuses around the world.

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How Can We Decarbonize Labs, Without Compromising Science?

3BL Media

What happens when the march toward net-zero runs headlong into human activity that benefits health, welfare and conditions on Earth? In those scenarios, how can we reconcile conflicting priorities so that net-zero targets and the need for continued scientific and medical advances don’t work against one another?

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Urgent action on carbon measurement needed, according to academic group

Envirotec Magazine

Unreliable data is responsible for variances of up to 2000% in forecasting carbon usage, prompting an urgent call for common data standards, reporting structures and changes in asset design. The authors say the result is a lack of understanding, obscuring the true impact of infrastructure projects on carbon emissions.

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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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