18 countries and over 60 organizations launched the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction at COP21 to reduce emissions and increase climate resilience in the building sector. The Alliance aims to speed up and scale efforts by the built environment industry to design and construct in a way that reduces emissions by 84 gigatons of CO2 by 2050. While this is an encouraging step, some note it may still not be enough to limit global warming to 1.5-2 degrees Celsius and that all built environment players must collaborate on sustainability strategies focused on this goal.

1. Significance of first Buildings Day at the
COP21 Paris 2015?
Martin Brown @fairsnape

2. big problem
huge opportunity

3. Encouraging to hear net positive, restorative
and regenerative in built environment
sustainability approaches.

4. 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.

5. builtenvironment players (leaders,
companies, advocates, agencies,
educators, academics) all need to
collaborate to ensure a sub 2
degrees warming path is central to
sustainability strategies

6. 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.

7. But is it enough?…
Something remarkable is happening,
right now, at COP21
The language is changing ….
2DegC 1.5DegC
#1o5C

8. 2DegC 1.5DegC
#1o5C
Draft as at 10/12/15:

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

10. 2DegC
1.5DegC
business as usual may not be that usual in the coming years ….

11. “it’s time to think
differently – it’s time to
heal the future”
Martin Brown
@fairsnape
#futuREstorative
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