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Wood You Believe: Mass Timber Leading a Renaissance in Modern Construction

3BL Media

Reducing Embodied Carbon. For WSP and most of its clients and stakeholders, interest in mass timber is being driven primarily by a concern for reducing embodied carbon in buildings. To view the firm’s Embodied Carbon Action Plan, click here. [To Industry groups and professional organizations in the U.S.

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CDL Ranked 5th Most Sustainable Corporation in the World and Top Real Estate Company Globally

3BL Media

Reaffirms its commitment to strengthening emissions pathways and carbon reduction efforts to achieve net zero goal by 2030. CDL will strengthen its emissions pathways and carbon reduction efforts to achieve its net zero target by 2030.

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Evolving Water Management to Strengthen Communities

3BL Media

How can communities minimise damage from the impacts of extreme weather events, such as floods and droughts, while protecting surface-water and groundwater resources and natural ecosystems? How can communities be prepared to manage the impacts of extreme weather events such as floods? Water is the new net-zero challenge.

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Climate resilience must be guiding principle of urban development, argues new report

Envirotec Magazine

Global supply chains – global supply chains are fragile – supply chain resilience in the face of multiple, widely distributed, extreme weather events is critical to prevent price rises and shortages from cascading round the world. Coordination – multi-stakeholder engagement and institutional coordination is vital.

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Academia, Cities, and the Private Sector Gather to Discuss "Systems Transformations for a 1.5 Degree World" alongside Global Climate Summit COP25

Sustainable Development Network

The event wouldn't have been possible without the collaboration and support of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) who are also host to the SDSN Spain Network , REDS (Red Española de Desarrollo Sostenible). The event’s panels on the first day were focused on the decarbonization of the power, transport, industry, and buildings sectors.

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LEAD On a Clean Economy Brings Companies and Investors to Capitol Hill With United Call To Maximize Investment in America

3BL Media

Organized by Ceres, the sixth annual LEAD (Lawmaker Education and Advocacy Day) event will take place between March 5 and 7. By 2050, Michelin is committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions across our business.” Editor’s Notes: The week’s activities will include an event hosted by Axios at 9:00 a.m.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

Recent events have impacted my kin personally in Maui and Northwest Territories,” says the 25-year-old community organizer from Six Nations of the Grand River, who works as the just-transition lead at Sacred Earth Solar. But recent climate events have given his work a greater sense of urgency. “We

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