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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

Friedmann concluded that low carbon appears to be the most versatile and cost competitive options for many industry sectors and that special policy options may be needed to decarbonize industrial heat. Zero-Carbon Cities This session looked at the decarbonization of buildings, including both embodied and operational emissions.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

Today he’s the Canada chair of the Carbon Leadership Forum, where he leads a team in empowering the building industry to address an issue it long ignored: the embodied carbon lurking in building materials. It has to build housing for millions of new residents while simultaneously hitting net-zero targets.

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