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COP28#BuildingsPavilion: One size fits no one: rethinking the just transition from forests to cities. Local, equitable and nature-based solutions to the climate crisis
| 15:00 - 16:30 Gulf Standard Time (GST)
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BUSINESS & BUILDINGS PAVILLION, ONLINE

Lead organisation(s):

Bauhaus Earth; Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB); International Criminal Court (ICC); World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Partners:

BuildChange (BuildChange); Yale Center for Ecosystems and Architecture (Yale CEA); ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI); BWI Group (BWI)

Format: Panel discussion, hybrid

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Description:

Bad news: there isn’t going to be a single and global way to deliver a just transition in the built environment. Good news: from Nigeria, Portugal, Denmark to Indonesia - local communities can teach us how best to deliver sustainable, affordable buildings, neighborhoods and cities. This session will explore how local building practices using biobased materials and waste products could be scaled and form equitable value chains linking cities and their rural hinterlands, ensuring that the most vulnerable communities and ecosystems - people and nature - are at the heart of the green transition in the built environment.

Speakers: 

  • Roland Hunziker, WBCSD [TBC]
  • Giulio Ferrini, Institute for Human Rights and Business
  • Per-Olof Sjoo, Building & Woodworkers International
  • Philipp Misselwitz, Bauhaus Earth
  • Anna Dyson, Yale University
  • Ryan Colker, International Code Council
  • Juan Caballero, BuildChange [TBC] 

Agenda:

Timing

Agenda item

Speaker(s)

15:00-15:15

Introduction & overview of session – in the context of the milestone report “Tackling Inequality: An Agenda for Business Action” from WBCSD and the Business Commission to Tackle Inequality (BCTI)

Roland Hunziker, WBCSD

15:15-15:30

Local visions for a just transition: art, research and action

  • What are the social impacts of built environment decarbonisation activities around the world?
  • Art as a force for unity
  • Giulio Ferrini, Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)
  • Per-Olof Sjoo (President of Building & Woodworkers International)

15:30-15:45

To what degree can the demands of human population growth and urbanization be met by climate-friendly, bio-based materials and equitable, circular value chains? Overview of recent UNEP-Global ABC report "Future of Construction"
  • Philipp Misselwitz, Bauhaus Earth
  • Anna Dyson, Yale University

15:45-16:10

Capacity building to achieve a safer, more resilient built environment in the context of engineered, traditional and informal construction
  • Ryan Colker, International Code Council          
  • Juan Caballero, BuildChange

16:10-16:30

Panel discussion/moderated Q&A with all presenters, moderated by Roland

 
Topics:
Building operations
Circularity
Materials