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With 25% of Europe’s greenhouse emissions coming from buildings, scientists suggest fundamental policy changes

Envirotec Magazine

To live up to their climate pledge under the Paris agreement, EU lawmakers must ensure all 250 million existing as well as all new buildings in the EU become nearly zero greenhouse gas emitters – so says a new report from the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC). Currently, between 1 and 1.5%

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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

Nonetheless, she presented the city’s Climate Action Plan which includes 67 projects in mitigation and adaptation such as the promotion of distributed photovoltaic generation in facilities, hydraulic generation pilot tests with ALS University, and an economic fund to assist in the adequacy of housing. Representing the aviation sector was Ms.

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New report says the building and construction sector can reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050

Envirotec Magazine

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.