Significance of first Buildings Day at the COP21 Paris 2015?

Martin Brown @fairsnape

40% big problem

huge opportunity

Encouraging to hear net positive, restorative and regenerative in built environment

sustainability approaches.

18 countries (Austria, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Senegal, Singapore, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States of America), and over 60 (GBC) organisations launched an unprecedented Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction to speed up and scale up the sector’s huge potential to reduce its emissions and literally build greater climate resilience into future cities and infrastructure.

built environment players (leaders, companies, advocates, agencies, educators, academics) all need to collaborate to ensure a sub 2 degrees warming path is

central to sustainability strategies

Globally, through design and construction we need to reduce emissions by 84 GtCO2 by 2050 – that’s taking over 22.000 coal

fired power stations out of service.

But is it enough?…

Something remarkable is happening, right now, at COP21

The language is changing ….

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#1o5C

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#1o5CDraft as at 10/12/15:

Impossible is only a challenge – and as Steve Jobs said – its kind of fun to do the impossible.

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business as usual may not be that usual in the coming years ….

“it’s time to think differently – it’s time to heal the

future”

Martin Brown@fairsnape #futuREstorative

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