Property developers at MIPIM, one of the largest real estate events, are being called on to implement high-impact carbon reduction strategies to immediately halve building project emissions without waiting for new technology.
Real estate is the world’s most valuable asset class representing two-thirds of global wealth.
The built environment is responsible for 37% of global emissions and a third of all solid waste streams.
Switching from linear to circular ways of doing business could contribute to a substantial dent in emissions from the built environment.
This article is the first collaborative step toward building a nature-positive roadmap with our built environment member companies. It outlines five key insights identified by members, featuring shared principles of nature-positive and analysis of sector-specific impacts, risks and opportunities.
This year’s climate summit, COP27, hosted by Egypt, is taking place at a tough time for global collaboration on all matters, such as global security, environment, energy, and most importantly, human survival.
WBCSD in collaboration with KPMG Japan, launched a Japanese translation of the CTI v3.0. The launch took place at WBCSD’s annual Council Meeting, hosted this year in Tokyo, Japan, and was attended by hundreds of global business leaders.
Last week, WBCSD, together with five leading sustainable development organizations, launched the Circular Buildings Coalition, an initiative to accelerate the transition to a circular economy in the construction and demolition sector.
The Circular Transitions Indicators (CTI) framework helps companies respond to this growing demand by providing a simple and sector-agnostic way to measure circularity and giving insights into how to reduce primary resource use and waste generation.
The Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) brings together governments, experts, businesses and NGOs to reduce emissions and increase resilience in the built environment.