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A greener shelter from the storm
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itting in an office in England on a mid-summer’s day with wet, stormy weather beating against the windows, one can’t help but think about climate change and its
impact on our everyday lives. Of course, the unseasonable weather may well have nothing to do with climate change. But it’s a good reminder that climate change is out there. It’s a shame, then, that those MEPs sitting in Brussels who are opposed to the EU’s plans for tougher emissions targets, don’t look out of the window more. At the time of writing, the European parliament was expected to vote for a big rise in Europe’s emissions- reduction target for 2020, taking it from 20% to 30%. Sceptical MEPs from Britain who are opposed to this change are,
Europe has woken up to the fact that achieving emissions targets will depend upon being able to make the built environment greener
of course, way out of line with the coalition government’s welcome adherence to stringent emissions targets. Ministers’ acceptance in May of the independent Committee on Climate Change’s proposal for a 50% cut in emissions by 2027 set the UK as an example to the rest of the world. But targets need action plans, and at the end of last month the coalition government took a major step forward in accepting most of the recommendations of the independent Innovation and Growth Team for ‘decarbonising’ the construction industry (see News, page 8). Admittedly, many of the measures in the
government’s new action plan are a rehash of current policies, such as the Green Deal. But the main thrust of the measures is to get leading players across the industry to work together to bring about improvements in procurement, contracts, integrated team- working, enforcement of energy efficiency rules, and so on – all aimed at reducing the impact that the built environment has on climate change. As the new CIBSE president, Andy Ford, tells us this month (Interview, page 26), a more collaborative (and inclusive) team approach to achieving emissions targets is essential. European policymakers have woken up to the fact that achieving tough emissions targets will depend upon member states being able to make the built environment greener. It’s a shame some MEPs don’t pay more attention to what’s in front of their noses.
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