Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As more governments around the world take steps against the climate crisis, it becomes increasingly important to understand and implement technologies that allow for development in sustainable and ecologically viable ways. Embodied carbon is all the CO2 emitted in the production of the building.

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ESG Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Launched in August 2022, the Net-Zero Challenge was established as a voluntary initiative to encourage businesses to develop and implement credible and effective plans to transition their facilities and operations to net-zero emissions by 2050.

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3BL Media

JULY 12, 2022

To mark World Heritage Day, WSP considers the contribution of our built heritage in the fight against climate change. The contribution of historic and listed buildings to sustainable development may not at first glance seem obvious. Most heritage buildings were not, after all, built with energy and carbon efficiency in mind.

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3BL Media

MARCH 17, 2022

These global catastrophes are already underway and will only get worse…unless we make some drastic and immediate changes to the ways we live and work. With this short timeframe, we’ll all have to work together to catalyze meaningful change. Carbon Intensity : Consume electricity with the lowest carbon intensity.

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3BL Media

MAY 16, 2024

Luckily for us, though, she brought her talents to Owens Corning nearly six years ago, first developing improvements to our shingle materials and more recently as part of our Asphalt team. Asphalt has an impact on the embodied carbon of our shingle product.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

At 28, Kurtis Layden, senior policy advisor in the Office of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, has been a key advisor on the federal ban on some single-use plastics, taking effect in 2025. Ultimately, I hope to inspire others [so] that we can change the status quo.”. Kurtis Layden. 28, Ottawa. Pratap Sandhu.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

DAC technology, listed by the IEA as a key carbon removal option in the transition to a net-zero energy system, extracts CO2 directly from the atmosphere for use as a raw material or permanently removed when combined with storage.

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3BL Media

APRIL 27, 2022

DESCRIPTION: The effects of climate change are compounding water management challenges for communities around the world. The frequency and intensity of natural hazards are projected to increase due to climate change, making it more difficult to manage surface-water and groundwater resources. SOURCE: WSP.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

The Global Solutions Forum was open to the wider sustainable built environment community, uniting progressive leaders and guests from across the WorldGBC network to continue to strengthen and develop a strategy for Sustainable Buildings for Everyone, Everywhere. We can develop these qualities within your existing teams too.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 24, 2022

New Zealand's Heavy Engineering Research Association (HERA) is developing a 'Materials Passport,' which focuses on how steel components can be reused. Manufacturing structural steel has traditionally been a high carbon activity. Zero-carbon steel isn’t yet commercially available. Taking a hybrid approach.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 28, 2023

Two-pillar sustainability reporting framework harmonises nine key ESG reporting standards and 14 UN Sustainable Development Goals On track towards achieving its SBTi-validated GHG emissions intensity reduction targets based on a 1.5°C CDL also achieved a 22% reduction in embodied carbon emissions compared to the conventional equivalents.

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ESG Today

MAY 16, 2024

In the foreword to the report, Microsoft President Brad Smith and Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa said that the increase has been driven by the construction of datacenters, including embodied carbon in building materials as well as hardware components. These are the biggest drivers of our Scope 3 challenges.”

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

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.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 21, 2022

City Developments Limited (CDL) has published its Integrated Sustainability Report (ISR) 2022, its fifteenth sustainability report since 2008. Aligned with global climate goals, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the blueprint remains integrated into the company’s business strategies and operations.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

And together we are achieving the system-level change required to transform our industry and the world. Advancing sustainability In order to avoid the most destructive effects of climate change, the world must reduce carbon emissions, and the built environment has a huge role to play. But we are only a part.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Reaching Net Zero operations by 2050 will require huge changes in industrial practices – such as how we use energy and source raw materials – but despite all the challenges, the target is achievable writes Rob Jenkinson. Climate change is no longer a theoretical concept: it poses an existential threat to us all. New approach.

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3BL Media

APRIL 6, 2022

City Developments Limited (CDL) has published its Integrated Sustainability Report (ISR) 2022, its fifteenth sustainability report since 2008. Aligned with global climate goals, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the blueprint remains integrated into the company’s business strategies and operations.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is impossible without urgent changes to national planning policy, analysis by CPRE, the countryside charity, appears to have found. Yet national planning policy has failed to keep up with climate change legislation, leaving ambitious carbon reduction targets impossible to achieve.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2023

August 14, 2023 /3BL/ - Thanks to efforts by prominent Black social impact developers Pastor Clinton Bush and his brother, Anthony B. The longtime Jacksonville residents are co-architects of this innovative compact master plan development approach to community health, which they have recently pioneered in Philadelphia. “I

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3BL Media

JUNE 26, 2024

Certification systems Certification systems provide frameworks and criteria for evaluating buildings against specific sustainability goals, helping to guide and incentivize the development of environmentally responsible structures.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A new report, ‘Risk & Resilience: The role of cities in tackling the climate crisis’ , argues that climate resilience must be embraced as a guiding principle across urban development, given the extreme exposure of cities to climate risk.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 11, 2025

In line with its Operational Net Zero 2030 target, CDL has reduced its Scope 1 and 2 operational carbon emissions for assets under direct management and operational control by 25% from 2016 levels. It achieved a 38% reduction in Scope 3 embodied carbon in new developments compared with a 2016 baseline.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 9, 2024

00:00:24] Carrie: Sometimes I still feel like that when I read kind of the news on climate change, and the hottest summer on record, and the impacts of climate change, and it can make you very, very sad. I was absolutely thrilled to hear about Trane's embodied carbon commitment today that was announced.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2023

Energy efficiency and sustainability guide the development of every new product, solution and feature, as well as how we address our legacy technologies. The adoption of Intel’s Real Time Dynamic scaling of CPU cores with C-state technology is a great example of bringing cloud technology to the RAN Market.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2022

And more recently a cross industry working group led by BBP, BRE, the Carbon Trust, CIBSE, IStructE, LETI, RIBA, RICS, and UKGBC have joined forces to champion a NZC building standard which looks to develop a single agreed methodology to develop NZC built assets in line with our nation’s climate targets.

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3BL Media

JULY 10, 2023

The energy sector finds itself at a pivotal moment as the world strives to address the urgent challenges of climate change and achieve a more sustainable future. Reducing carbon emissions and ensuring a secure and affordable energy supply will require transitioning from fossil fuel-based energy systems to net-zero carbon sources.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Green Bond proceeds require achieving a minimum 20% reduction in upfront carbon emissions through the adaptive reuse of existing buildings (i.e., avoiding demolition and construction) where appropriate, and the use of low embodied carbon construction practices in major refurbishments and new construction.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Early on, HGA and owner representatives held a resilience workshop to assess potential risks to the project over its life span including everything from public safety scenarios to impacts of climate change. However, aggressive energy-efficient building design still poses challenges in colder climates like Minnesota.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It also encouraged the accelerated development of, and transition to, zero-emission building stock. According to the Commission’s definition, a zero-emission building would not generate carbon emissions on-site.

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Sustainability Matters

JUNE 27, 2023

With up to 75% of the infrastructure that will be needed by 2050 yet to be built, it is critical that design and investment decisions made today consider the scale, scope and severity of climate change impacts. This has come from a global focus on climate change and net zero targets set by governments and corporations alike.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 8, 2022

Going forward, it will include lifecycle assessment of materials employed in the construction phase as part of the development design as a way of reducing embodied carbon, waste and pollution. Solutions include increasing energy access, mitigating climate change and building climate resilience.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic caused CO2 emissions from buildings and construction to fall significantly in 2020, but a lack of real transformation in the sector means that emissions will keep rising and contribute to dangerous climate change, according to the 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction.

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Sustainability Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Over 80% of our investments impact outcomes align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Community and social value are incredibly important, both at home and especially for our Pacific neighbours who are already feeling the impacts of climate change on their homes and way of living.

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Sustainability Matters

JANUARY 31, 2024

Businesses around the world are continuing to focus on sustainability in the race to net zero carbon emissions, and building construction and operations are critical areas where Australia can make significant contributions.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 13, 2023

“Estimates suggest that 90% of the existing building stock is still going to be around in 2050 when we need to be at net zero,” Sumberg said. The post GRE Strategy Targets Real Estate Transition appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It’s impossible not to see and feel the impacts of climate change when you’re in the thick of it in the day-to-day, and we all are now,” says Steele, who was born and raised in British Columbia, where deadly heat domes, atmospheric rivers and record-breaking wildfires have increased in intensity and frequency.

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3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

The key question now is how best to ensure the development of green skills across the workforce to meet employer needs at this moment and in the coming years,” said LinkedIn Co-Founder Allen Blue. It will take more than just one company, more than one industry to counter the worst effects of climate change – it is time for us all to act.

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