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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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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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Schneider Electric Buildings play a critical role in the race to meet science-based climate targets Climate change is one of the biggest challenges to human and planetary well-being. Meanwhile, maintaining our current pace in tackling climate change means that we will fail to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

As we are learning, in climate change as in pandemics, the costs of a global crisis are bound to vastly exceed those of its prevention. We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Launched in March this year, the drive to decarbonise industry forms a major part of the UK’s journey to 2050 net zero. The government went one step further and in April, set the world’s most ambitious climate change target into law: to reduce emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels.

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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

MARCH 5, 2024

The risks of climate change mark a threat to both public health and the economy,” said Shelly Schlenker, executive vice president/chief advocacy officer, CommonSpirit Health. 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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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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2022

However, true collaboration, which is open, transparent, and has its fair share of risks and opportunities, is only attainable from Government policy change. The UK Government have set a legal requirement for the UK to be Net-Zero Carbon (NZC) by 2050.

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