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Speech prepared for delivery at ‘Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Infrastructure Investment: A Virtual Dialogue with UNEP and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)’. Built infrastructure is a marvel of…
This report aims at providing an overview of the challenge that chemicals of concern pose in the context of products relevant for the building and construction sector. It outlines the relevance and linkages of chemicals of concern with regards to a…
Zimbabwe has long struggled with crippling power outages, some of which can last up to 18 hours a day. The cuts have been especially hard on the country’s hospitals and clinics, forcing nurses to deliver babies by…
CO2 emissions increased to 9.95 GtCO2 in 2019. The sector accounts for 38% of all energy-related CO2 emissions when adding building construction industry emissions Direct building CO2 emissions need to halve by…
Nzambi Matee’s small workshop in Nairobi, Kenya is chock-a-block with metal pipes and machine cogs. It may seem chaotic to outsiders but the 29-year-old Matee, an inventor and entrepreneur, is at home here. This is…
Around the world, there are an estimated 37 million churches, 4 million mosques, 20,000 synagogues and hundreds of millions of temples. Experts say many of these houses of faith could become models of…
The more the planet warms, the more cities are finding they need new ways to keep urban temperatures down and protect their residents. Heatwaves are already by far the deadliest weather-related disasters in Europe…
If the world has seen a scary future with the emergence of COVID-19, the future of our planet in a 3-4° C scenario takes us to an entirely different level of uncertainty, including in terms of health. Fundamental…
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariat, and the Commonwealth Secretariat, in collaboration with several United Nations entities, have…
Buildings and construction generate nearly 40 per cent of CO2 emissions, yet action continues to lag far behind opportunity. With a window opening for enhanced Paris agreement plans, the sector will be key to…
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