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Daily Digest - Glasgow, 11 November 2021 |
Buildings Theme: Built Environment
Today's highlights:
Building a Better World Together: Accelerating Deep Collaboration for Built Environment Climate Action
Hosted by the UK Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, and supported by the #BuildingToCOP26 coalition, this is a high-level event in the UNFCCC space, focused on deep collaboration along the building's value chain.
The challenges associated with climate change and achieving the Paris Agreement goals and the increasing sense of urgency to engage in action that will result in tangible outcomes necessitate: New ways of working together, shaping a common vision, targets and goals across all stakeholders: One Voice, One Ambition. Adopting a collaborative approach in the Built Environment that leverages and expands the impact and outreach of existing public and private commitments and action on climate change and resilience by rallying all stakeholders behind the Paris Agreement and COP26 goals.
MPGCA Cities, Regions and Built Environment Action Event: Building Places for People to Thrive in a Zero-Carbon, Resilient Future
Cities, regions and their built environment are at the forefront of the climate emergency. With their actions towards halving emissions by 2030, they are catalysts of the green and just transition and recovery from COVID-19. This event will explore how human settlements can inspire radical behavioral and consumption changes for people to lead lives compatible with a 1.5°C lifestyle, especially looking through the lenses of the key pillars of the Human Settlements pathway: the built environment and waste and consumption. Critically, the event will demonstrate the key enablers and market drivers of the entire buildings and construction value chain to influence innovative action, as well as circular economy approaches towards a net-zero resilient transition.
Ministers and Mayors on Buildings as a Critical Climate Solution
Hosted by the UK Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, and supported by the #BuildingToCOP26 Coalition this is a Ministerial and Mayoral event on critical policy actions to decarbonize buildings and how to successfully work with cities.
Ministers and mayors are uniting behind the urgency for action with one voice, one ambition: delivering and enabling a zero-emission, efficient, and resilient built environment. This event will showcase national and local level built environment action: it will highlight countries’ essential role in providing an enabling framework for stakeholders along the value chain and feature local governments as ‘challengers’ to showcase the need for deep collaboration and highlight their role in bridging the policy gap.
The event will demonstrate:
- Frontrunner country action and action solutions pathways on at least halving building-related emissions by 2030.
- City leadership and action with cities and regions recognised as critical policy enablers and market demand drivers that go beyond national government ambition, leading the way and providing an enabling environment and demand for industry.
- One Voice, One Ambition - city, regional and national government action is fully aligned behind common goals and targets.
Launch of the Clean Heat Forum - Accelerating Heating Decarbonization in Buildings with the GlobalABC
Heating is a major cause of operational CO2 emissions from the built environment. This new initiative, under the leadership of the UK government and the umbrella of the GlobalABC, rallies national governments in corresponding climatic zones, regions, and the private sector to decarbonize buildings' heating through shaping a common vision and targets; exchanging best practices; and co-creating standards. The event will show how some countries, regions, cities, industries are already championing/engaging on this agenda, and will underline the need for collaboration to accelerate a global shift towards buildings heating decarbonization for achieving the Paris Agreement.
Daily Digest - Glasgow, 10 November 2021 |
Buildings Theme: Buildings enabling low carbon infrastructure
Today's highlights:
Tools and NDCs towards zero-carbon and resilience
On Monday 8th, FIABCI, GlobalABC, GBPN, PEEB and iiSBE Italia R&D hosted a hybrid presentation of effective tools and instruments towards carbon neutral cities and buildings. Moderated by Elisabeth Belenchia of the International Real Estate Federation FIABCI, the session featured Anna Schindler of the Office for Urban Development Zurich, Suhas Diwase from Pune Metropolitan Regional Development Authority in Maharashtra, India, Peter Graham of the Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN), Vu Thi Kim Thoa of the Programme for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB), Andrea Moro from iiSBE Italia and Teresa Coady of iiSBE International, Canada.
Anna Schindler introduced the carbon-neutral label by the Swiss Office of Energy for achieving the 2000WattSmartCity label. Peter Graham launched the NDC Buildings Toolkit with tools, good practices and policy recommendations for setting up effective building NDC targets and actions. The Vietnam NDC Buildings and Construction Sector Roadmaps was introduced by Vu Thi Kim Thoa and, finally, Andrea Moro, followed by Teresa Coady, introduced the iiBSE open-source building rating system for resilience, and its 12 Principles of Conscious Construction for achievement of the GlobalABC mission and vision.
Daily Digest - Glasgow, 9 November 2021 |
Buildings Theme: Innovative buildings, renovation, & break-through designs
Today's highlights:
Digitalisation for Unlocking a Decarbonised Built Environment
Integrated Environmental Solutions - IES
To decarbonize our buildings, we need to use digital tools and performance-based analytics for design, construction, operation and refurbishment. The industry’s uptake of digital solutions has been historically slow. This must change. And through use of the right technologies and digital tools, all rooted in the relevant climate science, it absolutely can. Working off shared knowledge and data, and underpinned by powerful physics simulation intelligence, Digital Twins can empower everyone, regardless of their connection or role in the design or use of a building, to make climate-wise decisions and improvements.
The Business Case for Circular Buildings
ARUP, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, WBCSD
Approximately half of all extracted resources globally are used for the built environment, with 11% of global GHG emissions being attributed to the embodied carbon found in construction materials. This session, organized by WBCSD, Arup and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, will bring together a panel of high-level professionals to illustrate the opportunity of circular solutions in terms of innovation, new business models, CO2 reduction from materials, biodiversity protection and benefits for communities. Participants will learn how to make use of circular economy tools in the built environment and understand the business case.
Daily Digest - Glasgow, 8 November 2021 |
Buildings Theme: Buildings co-benefits
Today's highlights:
Tools and NDCs towards zero-carbon and resilience
Today/ On Monday 8th, FIABCI, GlobalABC, GBPN, PEEB and iiSBE Italia R&D hosted a hybrid presentation of effective tools and instruments towards carbon neutral cities and buildings. Moderated by Elisabeth Belenchia of the International Real Estate Federation FIABCI, the session featured Anna Schindler of the Office for Urban Development Zurich, Suhas Diwase from Pune Metropolitan Regional Development Authority in Maharashtra, India, Peter Graham of the Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN), Vu Thi Kim Thoa of the Programme for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB), Andrea Moro from iiSBE Italia and Teresa Coady of iiSBE International, Canada.
Anna Schindler introduced the carbon-neutral label by the Swiss Office of Energy for achieving the 2000WattSmartCity label. Peter Graham launched the NDC Buildings Toolkit with tools, good practices and policy recommendations for setting up effective building NDC targets and actions. The Vietnam NDC Buildings and Construction Sector Roadmaps was introduced by Vu Thi Kim Thoa and, finally, Andrea Moro, followed by Teresa Coady, introduced the iiBSE open-source building rating system for resilience, and its 12 Principles of Conscious Construction for achievement of the GlobalABC mission and vision.
Daily Digest - Glasgow, 5 November 2021 |
Buildings Theme: Buildings co-benefits
Today's highlights:
The Global Resiliency Dialogue: Collaborating for Climate Resilient Buildings
Today, the International Code Council hosted a hybrid presentation to introduce the Global Resiliency Dialogue (www.globalresiliency.org) and announce the release of the new publication, Delivering Climate Resilient Building Codes and Standards. Moderated by Judy Zakreski of the International Code Council, the panel also featured Neil Savery of the Australian Building Codes Board, Marianne Armstrong of the National Research Council of Canada, and Rolf Fenner of the Australian Planning Association. The report details the challenges faced by building code developers in integrating forward-looking climate science into building codes to ensure the future resilience of buildings and communities, and explores opportunities for global collaboration in filling the gaps. Presenters also discussed the development of international resilience standards for buildings – the next step in their work.
Daily Digest - Glasgow, 4 November 2021 | Energy
Buildings Theme: Buildings' role in the energy transition
Today's highlights:
Implementing Zero-Emissions Policy Reforms in South East Asia's Buildings Sector
To halve building sector emissions by 2030, and achieve the transition to zero-emissions buildings we must empower the people who need to take action, and not just focus on the policy actions that are required. This Panel therefore discussed HOW TO develop and implement policy reform plans from the ‘Top-Down’ and From the ‘Bottom Up' that help countries achieve their NDC and zero-emissions targets. GBPN's experience of stakeholder driven Top-Down’ approaches implemented in National Buildings NDC Roadmap development in Viet Nam and Cambodia, and in ‘Bottom-Up’ policy-development on the ground in Indonesia showed how engaging people in planning programs of policy reform is essential. The session finished with a short excerpt from the Healthy Buildings – Healthy Lives Video exhibition that is running online on the COP 26 Hub.
Heritage Regeneration, Retrofit and Resource Efficiency in the Built Environment
The event presented on heritage regeneration, retrofit and resource efficiency. Our historic buildings are part of the climate solution. Maintaining them and upgrading them is resource efficient and will help us reach net zero. We went live to Glasgow Cathedral where there is a live skills taster event introducing young people to the skills needed to look after our existing buildings.
From Global Commitment to Local Action – Implementing the Cement and Concrete Net Zero Roadmap
The GCCA hosted its “From Global Commitment to Local Action – Implementing the Cement and Concrete Net Zero Roadmap” event today at COP26, at the Buildings Pavillion. The event built on the launch of our Concrete Future 2050 Roadmap to Net Zero Concrete, which outlines the levers and pathways required to achieve our ambitious goal.
The launch of our roadmap saw forty of the world’s leading cement and concrete manufacturers joined forces to accelerate the shift to greener concrete by pledging to cut CO2 emissions by 25% by 2030, as part of a wider commitment to achieve net zero by 2050. The move by the members of the GCCA marks the biggest global commitment by an industry to net zero so far. It follows the September announcement during New York Climate Week that the GCCA has become the first global ‘heavy’ industry accelerator for the UN’s global Race to Zero.
Over 500 delegates joined the event, which featured a variety of discussions which looked at local implementations and perspectives on our global roadmap, and how action is already taking place among industry and policymakers to achieve net zero concrete by 2050.
Daily Digest - Glasgow, 3 November 2021 | Finance
Buildings Theme: Financing buildings' transformation
Today's highlights:
Investors' role in the race to zero: How to shift building investments towards Paris-alignment
The financial sector plays a crucial role in transforming the built environment towards net-zero carbon to reach the goals. Speakers from French development bank AFD, Mexican housing bank Sociedad Hipotecaria Federal (SHF), venture capital provides Fifth Wall, Mexico’s Laudes Foundation showed best practices how to shift investments, foster innovation and R&D to scale. They urged dedicated support for green buildings, ranging from mainstreaming green buildings into the work of development banks, improved regulation, green housing programmes to a tech fund for real-estate and the important role of philanthropy. Programme for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (PEEB) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) as organisers of the event will bring recommendations into the work of GlobalABC.
Daily Digest - Glasgow, 2 November 2021 | World Leaders Summit
Buildings Theme: Built environment & climate action: market transformation
Today's highlights:
Built Environment Market Transformation
This event was organized by GlobalABC’s Work Area 3 ‘Market Transformation’ co-leads (WBCSD, WorldGBC, Holcim). It marks the launch of the “Market Transformation Levers for a Net Zero Built Environment" identified by the GlobalABC community, and stakeholders from business, policy, finance and science discussed the feasibility of these key measures to enable and accelerate the much-needed market transformation, highlighting the need for deep collaboration to decarbonize the sector. GlobalABC also officially launched its Higher Education Institutions Network – a network to support the vision, mission, and work of the GlobalABC, and to recognize and support innovative research and data collection efforts.
Skills for a Green Construction Recovery
As emphasized in the Commonwealth's Call to Action for Sustainable Urbanisation, the critical capacity gap that specifically exists within the Commonwealth region requires a new way of working and upskilling at scale. A holistic knowledge base, trans-disciplinary collaboration, and sharing of industry experiences have been identified as the key actions that the sector should implement as soon as possible. Inherently addressing these actions, Climate Framework Initiative is receiving tremendous support to address the capacity challenge fast and at scale, as it unites industry and academia for effective upskilling, knowledge sharing, and capacity building for collective climate action.
Rethinking the built environment's potential in connection with our energy system
On Nov 2nd, the GlobalABC co-chairs, the IEA, IPCC, Sénégal and Morocco discussed the IEA Net Zero by 2050 Roadmap. All participants recognised the astronomical carbon footprint of buildings and construction, and outlined priorities to bring it to zero, including energy efficiency, fuel switching, lifecycle accounting, system integration and resilience.
Daily Digest - Glasgow, 1 November 2021 | World Leaders Summit
Buildings Theme: Built environment & climate action: market transformation
Today's highlight: “Navigating the Transition to Zero Carbon Buildings” - a GlobalABC and WRI joint event, that took place today as the first #BuildingsPavilion event! This event brought together representatives from Colombia, Chile and Turkey discussing the importance of roadmaps to decarbonize the buildings and construction sector and the GlobalABC “Buildings as a Critical Climate Solution” country commitment.
Highlights for Monday, 2 November
[9:30 - 11:00 - Buildings Pavilion - Theatre]
GlobalABC, WBCSD, WorldGBC, Holcim, RIBA/Architects Declare
The built environment is responsible for almost 40% of global energy and process-related CO2 emissions. To meet the 1.5˚C Paris Agreement objective, we must halve these emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero no later than 2050. Radical and deep collaboration across all stakeholders is crucial to ensure the needed change is achieved. This event will present the current status of emissions in the built environment (GlobalABC 2021 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction), what needs to be done to reduce them (RIBA and Architects Declare Built for the Environment report), and how market transformation towards a “net zero” built environment can be achieved (GlobalABC Market Transformation Levers). The event will see also the launch of the GlobalABC Higher Education Institutes (HEI) network.
More information here.
Skills for a Green Construction Recovery
[11:30 - 12:30 - Buildings Pavilion (Board room + Virtual)]
Commonwealth Association of Architects
The Survey of the Built Environment Professions in the Commonwealth reveals a critical lack of built environment professionals, and a corresponding lack of educational/institutional capacity in many Commonwealth countries, which are rapidly urbanising (without appropriate building codes) and are among the most vulnerable to climate change impacts.
More information here.
[17:15 - 18:15 - Buildings Pavilion (Board room + Virtual)]
International Energy Agency (IEA) & GlobalABC
Buildings and building construction account for 37% of global energy- and process- related CO2 emissions globally. The GlobalABC’s Buildings Global Status Report and IEA’s Tracking Clean Energy Progress Report show that efforts since COP21, despite having led to efficiency gains and increased clean energy technology uptake, will not be sufficient to achieve global climate mitigation ambitions. To guide government action, the IEA’s net-zero by 2050 roadmap showed a pathway to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 paved by dozens of technology and policy milestones. In this event, experts will discuss how concerted action by governments, NGOs, industries and international organisations could put buildings on track to net-zero emissions.
More information here.
Other building-related events:
[13:00 -14:30 | Glasgow Cathedral] Glasgow Cathedral Conservation Insight Tour - Culture at COP
[15:00 - 16:30 | Online] IFC EDGE - Green Building Finance: A Zero Carbon Fuel
Daily Digest - COP26 | Glasgow
This is the GlobalABC Daily Digest on the #BuildingsPavilion and other building-related events at COP26, see also www.buildingtocop.org#BuildingToCOP26. Over the next 2 weeks, we will prepare a short daily digest that will bring you an overview of all buildings activities going at our pavilion, and throughout COP26 - a go-to list to follow what's what in the building's agenda in Glasgow.
Stay tuned!
Highlights for Monday, 1 November
[16:00 - 17:30 - Buildings Pavilion - PV93 - Climate Pledge Theatre]
GlobalABC & WRI
The Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction and World Resources Institute will host a joint event to announce the Buildings as a Critical Climate Solution commitment and showcase countries developing roadmaps to implement these ambitious goals.
WATCH IT IN THE LIVESTREAM LINK ABOVE ⬆️
COP26 - Glasgow 1-12 November
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#Buildings Pavilion programme and more!
The GlobalABC is invested in increasing the visibility of the buildings and construction sector at COP26 through the #BuildingsPavilion, the #BuildingToCOP26 coalition, and through partners. Daily digest will be uploaded here, which will bring a short summary of building related events at Glasgow, updated every day. Please tune in for great programming!
In the meantime, please refer to this link for the #BuildingsPavilion programmme and to our Trello board, for all of GlobalABC communication materials. Don't forget to check the #BuildingToCOP26 webpage:
