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ow do you feel COP26 went? Architects who attended,was it as big a politically-hamstrung disappointment as the headlines – like the big last-minute watering down of India’s promises on coal – suggested? Or was it actually a chance to sift through the ‘blah blah blah’ and find out what is currently happening on the ground, and take the inspiration away to drive faster to net zero? I’d love to hear your take.


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The construction industry is, I’d argue,where many real examples can be found of the ‘non state-actors’ who can bring the momentum of action on our resilience to a broad-based level that will really begin to make the changes needed.This is mainly because buildings generate (in a now well-worn statistic), 40%of global carbon emissions.


Our Government is continuing to wave targets and loans at the industry, rather than practical measures.However part of the big changes are the Future Homes Standard, and a bunch of other initiatives already underway.


Not to add to the pile of daunting challenges before the industry, but according to eco-watchdog and architect Carl Elefante, “before Covid shutdowns reduced emissions for the first time in decades,” annual energy and


energy-related greenhouse gas emissions from the building sector totalled about 10 Gigatons (billion tons of CO2 equivalent emissions), making up the more than apocryphal 40%. According to Elefante, and other experts in the field, the current trajectory global building is on – to satisfy our fast-urbanising populations will mean that by 2050 construction will account for at least 100 Gigatons.


The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has now established a carbon ‘budget’ of 300 Gigatons to restrict the Earth’s temperature rise to 1.5 degrees, and avoid the potentially catastrophic effects that have been forecasted of exceeding it.


This means the building industry must play its part now, and if Government endeavours don’t have the national traction needed, then the supply side, small and large, have to simply persuade their clients to do what’s right.


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At COP26, the leading architectural bodies (ASHRAE,AIA, RIBA, etc) did what they do at such events, and put together a joint ‘Architecture 2030’ statement; hoped to push Governments into upping their targets on carbon reduction and safeguard the 1.5 degrees target. But in reality, they are simply another set of voices in a vast chorus of sensible people shouting essentially for a paradigm shift in how our profit-driven economic system is set up.


At what point does emissions enforcement, such as of the changes to Part L, become nationalised, and aggressive, as it probably needs to be? The signatories of the Architecture 2030 Communiqué described, rightly, how the architecture profession, and other construction segments are “transforming and taking significant action to mitigate and adapt to climate change,” setting the bar for others to follow.


Yet, although that is true (good practice breeds good practice), and consumer demand is now firmly on a ‘demand action,’ far from complacent footing, the challenge is bigger than that will produce. The scale of carbon- saving activity that is really needed requires the kind of top-down approach that modernWestern administrations are absolutely terrified of implementing.


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