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The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, co-founded by former US President Bill Clinton, is a signatory to a RIBA and Architects Declare document that will be presented to policy makers at COP26 this morning (November 2nd).
The report, which is also backed by dozens of architectural firms, contractors and developers, calls on governments to complement their climate protection pledges, known as nationally set contributions, with ambitious measures to tackle emissions from the built environment.
The document also calls on leaders to reform building codes to regulate the energy efficiency of buildings, regulate embedded carbon in new buildings and encourage the reuse of existing structures, and promote nature-based solutions and health and wellbeing.
The report also says governments should reform public procurement to require industry-leading standards; Gathering and providing information on abandoned buildings to encourage adaptive reuse; and promoting post-occupancy assessment through planning or building regulations.
And he urges governments to develop funding mechanisms to encourage public investment in emerging local carbon technologies and support green funding initiatives that focus on reducing energy consumption in buildings.
RIBA President Simon Allford said: ‘As a cross-industry alliance of customers, contractors, consultants and manufacturers, we are today making a joint appeal to governments around the world.
“Without ambitious laws that support the decarbonisation of our sector, we will not achieve the cuts in the Paris Agreement. Our buildings are responsible for almost 40 percent of global CO2 emissions. For the good of humanity, we need courageous regulations and purposeful policies that secure our future. ‘
Report Editor Maria Smith, a director of Buro Happold and a RIBA councilor, said: ‘Hundreds of built environment companies are working together to urge governments to increase their ambition and commitment to addressing climate and biodiversity emergencies.
“These public and private clients, developers, architects, engineers, contractors, suppliers and more are demanding not only stricter environmental regulations, but also more resources and infrastructure to enable a fair and sustainable built environment.
“This report represents a collective declaration of performance by the industry, but also a call for international climate justice: From the monitoring and regulation of embodied carbon to the reporting and alignment of emission reductions on a consumption basis, this report is intended to give all insiders confidence and outside of the built environment, that a better world is possible. ‘
List of signatories to the “Built for the Environment” report
Builders, contractors, suppliers, asset managers, property developers and investors
money
BAM Construct UK
Bioregional
BuildX Studio
CBRE investment management
Claire Gaudion
COMVIVE
dp agency
Derwent London
Dodds and Shute
Dukelease properties
Galliford Try Holdings
Grosvenor
Home.Earth
ITW building products offsite
Laing O’Rourke
Lendlease Europe
Optio Living
Tempo investments
Rakennusasiaintoimisto Aarre Oy
Robertson group
Sir Robert McAlpine
SUEZ recycling and recovery UK
Wates
Wilmott Dixon
NGOs, professional institutes, member organizations, research and science
1 million women
Architects explain Aotearoa NZ
Architects explain DK
Architects explain Hungary
Architects explain Ireland
Architects explain Switzerland
Architecture 2030
Australian architects explain
Partnership for better buildings
BHL building health laboratory
BRE
C40 cities
Canadian / Turtle Island Architects explain
Central Saint Martins: Spatial Practices Program
Center for Natural Product Innovation,
Cambridge University
Chartered Association of Building Engineers
Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Good Homes Alliance CIC
Institute for Environmental Management and Assessment
Institute for Environmental Sciences
International Association of Architects
International WELL building institute
KLC School of Design
Declaration by Latvian Architects
TO FLY
MCS Charity Foundation
New Zealand Institute for Architects
Parson’s Healthy Materials Laboratory
Passive House Institute New Zealand
Passive House Trust
Quality of Life Foundation
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
School of Architecture, Royal College of Art
School of the Natural and Built Environment, Queens University Belfast
School for sustainability in the supply chain
The alliance for sustainable building products
The Chartered Institution of Water and
Environmental management
The edge
The institution of civil engineers
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS)
Timber development UK
Action group trees and design
Declaration by US architects
Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll)
Wood knowledge Wales
Designer, consultant and consultant
5. Studio
Absolute project management London Limited
AEW architects
Alexandra Ross URBAN
ALGREEN
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
aNNeKS architects aps
ARC design studio
Benjamin Cars architect
architecture.be
Architectural emporium
architecture
Archon Inmod
Ark brood
ArtBuild
Arup
Ash Sakula |
Assemble
Atelier Lira Luis Limited x Leapfrog Project
Austin-Smith: Mr.
Avanto Architects
BakerBrown
Beehive architecture
Bennett’s partner
Bio-architecture Formosana
Buckley Gray Yeoman
Office Happold
BVN
CF Møller Architects
chapmanbdsp
Charissa Snijders architect
Chris Dyson Architects
Christensen & Co Architects
Church of Luke
Cobe
Collective architecture
Collective works
CUP design
Cundall
CW studio
Djernes & Bell Architects
dRMM
Eastern architecture, urban landscaping
EEDN
Elementa advice
ELGAARD architecture
elizabethk
Elkins Architects
Energy factor, SA
Embrace
Upright architecture
ERIK architects
Ethos Design und Architektur GmbH (Ethos +)
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Fletcher Priest Architects
GAIA ecotecture
GBolade design studio
Gehl
Gort Scott
Gottstein Architects
Government architect NSW
Graeme North, adobe and natural construction consultant
Grant Associates
Handle design
Gray Organschi architecture
Grigoriou interiors
Grimshaw
Green morning
work in groups
GXN
Habitamony
Hawkins Brown
Haworth Tompkins
Henning Larsen Architects
Hetreed Ross Architects
HLM architects
Hoare Lea
HTA design
Integrated environmental solutions (IES)
John Gilbert Architects
John Sergeant Arquitecto
Jollie
Julian Church & Staff
KC + A Architects
KR.eativ: Architects
Lateral agency
Laura Iloniemi architecture press and PR
LDA design
Levite amber
Liam Russell Architects
Madeleine Kessler architecture
Man williams
Materialize interiors
Matter vonbrix
MawsonKerr
MCM architecture
Metiu design
Mikhail wealth
Modece Architects
Moxon Architects
Much more design
muf architecture / art
Nemo Architects
Nordic – Denmark Architects
Nviro House
One World Design Architects
Parviainen Architects
Pidcock
Piuarch.
Pollard Thomas Edwards
Pro Sustainability GmbH
Orange Architects project
publicly
Ritchie Studio
Rixon architecture
RKD Architects
Roderick James Architects
Ruth Butler Architects
Saul D. Humphrey
Schmidt Hammer Lassen
Shand Shelton
Softroom
Square reinforcement
Posture studio
Stanton Williams
Studio 12
Studio Bark
Kantele Studio
Studio Pasifika
Studio fabric
Team of green architects
UK project services
Urbanlab Nordic
Utility
von Heyningen and Haward Architects
Vandkunsten Architects
VI ARK
VIA architecture
Waugh Thistleton Architects
Webb Yates engineers
White architects
WRAP
xsite architecture
XVW architecture
Yellow brick road design
Zero carbon house
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