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🏡🏗 UN Environment Programme and Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), in partnership with UNOPS, Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN), and Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK) are supporting Kenya’s State Department for Public Works in developing its national #BuiltEnvironment decarbonisation roadmap. 🌍 Today, the 1st stakeholder workshop was held to kick off the roadmap process and identify key action areas. 🔗 Learn more about Climate Action Roadmaps for Buildings and Construction https://lnkd.in/ettJERgC

Click the link below for the Roadmaps. "The roadmaps cover eight themes, including urban planning, new buildings, existing buildings, building operations, appliances and systems, materials, resilience and clean energy, in the quest of harnessing the sector’s enormous opportunities for decarbonization and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals." The first roaxmap addresses universal guidance, followed by the regional specifics.

Earlier today, I had the pleaure of meeting with a delegation from the IFC Green Buildings Program: Michelle M. Farrell and Temilola Sonola. I told them we appreciate the good work that EDGE is doing in making it easy to design and certify resource efficient and zero Carbon buildings across the world. This is because it is in line with the Ministry’s commitment to adopting practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the Renewed Hope Agenda of His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to build climate smart and sustainable communities and cities. We look forward to more engagements and a collaboration that will help the Ministry of Housing & Urban Development to leverage on the expertise of the IFC EDGE Green Buildings Program to drive the adoption of sustainable green building practices across the country. As a Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, we know that we have a responsibility to do our part in mitigating the negative impact of buildings and construction work on the environment. This is crucial as the sector is responsible for about 28 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and accounts for 35 percent of energy use; 60 percent of the electricity for heating, cooling, and lighting; as well as 25 percent of global water and 40 percent of materials extracted.

The future of sustainable building is here! CIBSE and eight other leading industry organisations have established the UK's first comprehensive Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard. This initiative will provide clear guidelines for developers, architects and engineers to create buildings that align with the UK’s climate goals. Together, we are defining what it means to be truly net zero. Read about our role in this pioneering endeavour. Download the Standard and register for the UKNZCBS webinar at https://buff.ly/3zjVW8J #WeAreCIBSE #UKNetZeroCarbonBuildingsStandard #UKNZCBS #Partnership #NetZero #Sustainability #BuildingPerformance UK NZC Buildings Standard

And more Climate Action Roadmaps for Buildings and Construction to come! Proud to see Kenya colleagues kicking-off the Roadmap with a Stakeholder Consultation! The Roadmaps aim to decarbonize the buildings sector and promote resiliency and inclusion in the #builtenvironment sector Climate Action Roadmaps cover national: 1. Strategic Priorities 2. Spatial and Urban Planning 3. Existing Buildings 4. New Buildings 5. Construction Supply Chains #unep #unops UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)

The industry transition team is growing! It takes a multidisciplinary village to examine all aspects of the sustainable built environment: Finance & Economics Urban Planning Design Engineering BQ Specifications IT/ICT/Digital Technologies Chemistry/Physics/Biology Health Social Inclusion/ESG Legal Contracts Creatives Operations Research Project Management Current construction practices have been used for hundreds of years. We need to shift while learning which is not an easy task. We also need to plan in ways that reduce current problems and prevent future disasters. Decarbonisation is not about shutting down current businesses. Decarbonisation is about redesigning our approach to construction so that we have better health and environmental outcomes. Most of all, Decarbonisation is about improving our business models to make more (long term) money, i.e. find ways to have a steady profit 20 years in the future. What is a carbon and how do you get rid of it? Think about the factory smoke: what if instead of letting it escape into the air and everyone coughing, we can use filters that grab that smoke? what if we take the dirty filters and recapture some key ingredients to use again? what if you can make more construction products with lower electric bills? what if you can use 50% less water? what if transport time to the construction site is only 10 minutes? Cement and Steel have the most smokey processes. Our goal is to keep these materials in production while getting rid of the smokey production problems. Carbon Leadership Forum Andro Goblon Robert Bach Casanovas

🌍 Breaking *Built Environment* News! 🏗️ Please find a copy of the groundbreaking Ministerial Declaration emerging from the Buildings and Climate Global Forum on March 7-8 in Paris, spearheaded by the Gouvernement of France and UN Environment Programme Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC)! 🌱 This declaration is a pivotal step towards fostering decarbonization and climate resilience within the building sector. Key highlights include: 🔹 Emphasis on international collaboration and commitments from governments and stakeholders. 🔹 Acknowledgment of challenges and alignment with the Paris Agreement's goals. 🔹 Promotion of sustainable construction, retrofitting, and use of eco-friendly materials. 🔹 Advocacy for regulatory roadmaps, mandatory codes, and financial frameworks. 🔹 Importance placed on standards, certifications, and procurement policies. 🔹 Call for capacity building and sharing of best practices. 🔹 Stress on involving all stakeholders across the building value chain. This declaration signifies a unified effort towards a greener, more sustainable future! 🌿 Huge gratitude to Gouvernement for hosting this crucial forum. Our team at IFC - International Finance Corporation and EDGE Buildings were well-represented and honored to support. Let's propel these initiatives forward together! 💪 #ClimateAction #Sustainability #GlobalForum #ParisAgreement #BuildingResilience #GreenFuture EDGE Buildings IFC - International Finance Corporation Ommid Saberi Sandeep Singh Yves-Laurent SAPOVAL Jonathan Duwyn Jamie Fergusson

The Climate Smart Buildings Alliance (CSBA), a joint project between EllisDon, RBC, and Mattamy Homes, is launching the Responsible Buildings Pact, a cross-industry agreement aimed at increasing the use of low carbon materials in the built environment 🙌 This initiative was unveiled this afternoon at the CAGBC | Canada Green Building Council’s Building Lasting Change conference in Toronto, with over 20 companies committing to the Pact. “Recognizing the business realities everyone faces, the Pact is designed to ensure we are all doing our best to reduce the climate impacts of our industry, and to create more transparency and shared accountability across the value chain.” - David Messer, Director of Climate Smart Buildings Alliance. The Responsible Buildings Pact is an open, voluntary, industry-wide agreement for developers, consultants, contractors, and supporters interested in working together to reduce the embodied carbon of the buildings we create. Companies joining the Pact will commit to remaining educated on lower carbon materials, establishing a process to consistently evaluate whether lower carbon materials or design strategies can be used, and publicly reporting the results of their process and evaluations on an annual basis. For more information on the Responsible Buildings Pact please visit: https://lnkd.in/gNgDpSxH #ResponsibleBuildingsPact #ClimateSmartBuildings #BuildingForBetter #CSBA

Such an important discussion to be had - and the link between both performance and sustainability with social impact, access and inclusion, is paramount to the future of buildings and the built environment. #InclusiveDesign #Inclusion #Diversity #Equality #Equity #BuildingPerformance #Performance #Sustainability #Value

The current #scope_and_ambition of the #building sector's commitments are #insufficient to meet the #Paris #Agreement. That's why we're developing an #NDC_dashboard for sustainable buildings to support and encourage every country to #BeBoldOnBuildings in their NDC submissions, due next year. #The_Scorecard_tool will allow all policymakers, Green Building Councils and others to assess and compare their countries’ NDCs, and reveal where further action is necessary to #increase the #ambition and #effectiveness of their NDCs Find out more: https://bit.ly/3YbKdBg #BuildingTheTransition #BuildingToCOP #BuildingToCOP29 #BeBoldOnBuildings #NDC #Tunisia