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Scaling Progress: The International Living Future Institute Announces Strategic Collaboration With Four Major Companies To Advance Carbon Verification in Buildings

3BL Media

June 26, 2024 /3BL/ - The International Living Future Institute (ILFI) Zero Carbon Certification offers organizations a valuable tool to demonstrate credible climate action. With the new standard, we aim to accelerate change and enable large-scale adoption and impact, and rise to the challenge that the UN Paris Agreement calls for.

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Urgent action on carbon measurement needed, according to academic group

Envirotec Magazine

The authors say the result is a lack of understanding, obscuring the true impact of infrastructure projects on carbon emissions. The coalition believes a common industry-wide approach is essential to the availability, quality and transparency of data, underpinning initiatives to achieve net-zero carbon by 2050.

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New report says the building and construction sector can reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050

Envirotec Magazine

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.

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Academia, Cities, and the Private Sector Gather to Discuss "Systems Transformations for a 1.5 Degree World" alongside Global Climate Summit COP25

Sustainable Development Network

Friedmann concluded that low carbon appears to be the most versatile and cost competitive options for many industry sectors and that special policy options may be needed to decarbonize industrial heat. Zero-Carbon Cities This session looked at the decarbonization of buildings, including both embodied and operational emissions.