Yale CEA

Anna Dyson delivers a keynote speech for the AIA Los Angeles 7th Annual 1.5°C Symposium on Climate Change.

If you happen to be at COP28, please join us at the Yale School of the Environment's Planterary Solutions Panel tomorrow morning at the George Washington University Higher Education Pavilion (Section B7, Building 90) in the Blue Zone. Yale Planetary Solutions - UNEP/Global ABC Report — Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing the Future  Time: 9.15am -10.45am Speakers:  - Anna Dyson, Hines Professor of Sustainable Architectural Design, Yale School of the Environment, Professor, Yale School of Architecture, Yale Center for Ecosystems Architecture - Dr. Mae-ling Lokko, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Architecture, Yale Center for Ecosystems Architecture Presentation and Discussion of the UN Environment Programme, Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) and Yale CEA Report: Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future - a first-of-its-kind report developed by leading experts from 6 continents and designed to unite stakeholders from across the industry to cooperate on new pathways to radically accelerate the ethical decarbonization of materials by 2050. https://lnkd.in/dreqsPHA

The UN is calling for the use of recycled #concrete to cut emissions and create a “circular” approach in #construction that reduces waste. This recommendation and others are outlined in a new report by the UN Environment Programme & Yale CEA. https://hubs.li/Q025nrcv0

🏗️06 Décembre #Ressources -𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲́𝗿𝗶𝗮𝘂𝘅 𝗲𝘁 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁 Parlons #matériaux, et des #politiques de #décarbonation possibles pour améliorer la construction. 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗧 de l'UN Environment Programme nous offre pour cela une feuille de route claire, accompagnée de recommandations à destination des décideurs politiques. Pour rappel, cette feuille de route de décarbonation s'appuie sur 3 principes cardinaux: ↩️𝗔𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱, 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿 #éviter la surutilisation des matériaux et l'extraction de nouveaux matériaux en construisant (avec) moins, en réutilisant et recyclant les bâtiments et les matériaux. 🔀𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁, 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿 #remplacer les matériaux conventionnels par des matériaux bas carbone, renouvelables et produits de manière durable, bio-sourcés. ⤴️𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲, 𝗔𝗺𝗲́𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗿 #améliorer les matériaux conventionnels,en réduisant réduire l'impact de leur production, et limiter et optimiser leur usage Un chapitre spécifique du rapport est dédié à l'action politique. En voici une sélection subjective de #mesures très concrètes: 1️⃣ 𝗘𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗿 𝗹𝗮 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 🔹établir un mécanisme de coordination pour faciliter la collaboration et la synergie entre acteurs au delà des cycles politiques 🔹lier les politiques d'achats aux politiques de décarbonation 🔹intégrer les coûts des externalités dans l'évaluation des appels d'offres publics 2️⃣𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗲 🔹procéder à des analyses systématiques de cycle de vie dans les projets de construction et rénovation 🔹améliorer l'accès à l'information et aux données pour les professionnels (inventaires, passeports des bâtiments) 🔹soutenir le développement d'outils 3️⃣𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 🔹intégrer/renforcer les exigences quant aux émissions dans les normes de construction 🔹obliger l'usage de matériaux bio-sourcés ou recyclés lorsque possible 🔹axer les normes sur la performance et l'impact environnemental des matériaux de construction 4️⃣𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲́𝗹𝗲́𝗿𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗮 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝗹'𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲 🔹soutenir l'industrie pour la décarbonation des matériaux d'origine non renouvelable 🔹standardiser les critères de performance de ces matériaux et les intégrer dans les normes de construction 🔹développer des standards de réemploi pour rassurer les acteurs de la construction 🔹retirer les barrières réglementaires à la réutilisation de bâtiments et de matériaux 5️⃣𝗔𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗿 𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲 🔹associer les problématiques de justice sociale et environnementale dans les politiques de décarbonation 🔹accompagner les travailleurs de l'industrie conventionnelle dans la transition vers une industrie bas-carbone 🔹améliorer l'offre de formation initiale et continue 👉 Pour en savoir plus, voici quelques extraits en partie traduit , et ne manquez pas d'explorer le document pour le détail des principes et des mesures!

Today at #COP28! Lead author, Anna Dyson [Founding Director, Yale CEA and Design for Freedom Working Group member] and Dr. Mae-ling Lokko [Willow Technologies Ltd and Yale School of Architecture], both of whom we were honored to welcome as speakers for our 2023 Design for Freedom Summit, shared the critical findings from the momentous UN Environment Programme/Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) and Yale CEA Report, Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing the Future, as part of the Yale School of the Environment's Planetary Solutions Panel. Another milestone in the movement to transform the built environment!

Our Design for Freedom Ethical Supply Chain Workshop, co-hosted with Turner Construction Company and the U.S. State Department Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations [OBO] at Grace Farms a few weeks ago, affirmed large-scale industry stakeholders working in tandem. With industry experts across public and private sectors–from large manufacturers and technology partners to designers, higher education, and government agencies–we addressed supply chain transparency, how building material choices impact the climate, financial considerations for building and maintaining responsible supply chains, the market shift to ethical decarbonization, and more. “With a portfolio of projects in design and construction across the globe, OBO is working to move the needle of institutional change by partnering with our stakeholders to expand the industry’s usage of ethically-sourced building materials," said Curtis Clay [U.S. State Department Bureau of Overseas Building Operations ; Design for Freedom Working Group member]. "This workshop accelerated the movement towards this aim and provided OBO with a clearer understanding of the challenges and barriers that our private sector contractors and material suppliers face when attempting to source ethically." "Our hope is that this workshop furthers industry cooperation and alignment on the topic of advancing human rights in the entire supply chain, from extraction of materials, manufacturing, transportation, installation, and operation of building components," said Jennifer Downey [Turner]. Thank you to all who attended! Speakers included Anna Dyson, [Yale CEA], Maha Khan [Finance Against Slavery & Trafficking], Shawn MacDonald [Verité], Amy Musanti [ASSA ABLOY Group], Amy O’Neill Richards [State Dept. Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Person], Christopher Sharples [SHoP Architects], Peter Swartz [Altana Technologies], and more. As our CEO and Founder, Sharon Prince noted, "By inviting large suppliers, manufacturers, and developers to the table with Turner and OBO, we can start to level set a fair and resilient building material supply chain among competitors and create a more humane future.” Read the press release for more details and insights, including from Michael Bruskin [Turner], on this important day for Design for Freedom: https://lnkd.in/gn6YHd3K Photo: Jacek Dolata

🌍🏡 The daily theme of the COP28 #BuildingsPavilion will be "Building a nature-positive future". Be on the lookout for our events where discussions will be focused on #NbS, biodiversity, resilience, circularity, and roadmaps. 💚 👉 10:00-11:30 | Building a net-zero & nature-positive future: Whole life cycle approaches and circularity as key drivers for building decarbonisation https://lnkd.in/dihBKmi2 🎙️ Moderator: Jonathan Duwyn, UN Environment Programme/Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) 🎙️ Dr. Vera Rodenhoff, Deputy Director General for International Climate Action and International Energy Transition, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Germany 🎙️ Edgar Hertwich, Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (online)  🎙️ Hind Wildman, Yale CEA 🎙️ Duncan Baker-Brown, RIBA 🎙️ Prof Graeme Maidment FInstR, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 🎙️ Naila Ahamed Noor, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Public Works of Bangladesh 🎙️ Robert Spencer, VP sustainable committee, FIDIC - International Federation of Consulting Engineers / AECOM 🎙️ Dima Zogheib, Associate Director, Cities, Planning and Design team, Arup 🎙️ Anna Dyson, Yale CEA 🎙️ Argentina representative: Adriana Garcia 🎙️ Indonesia representative: Anandita Laksmi 🎙️ Kerstin Stendahl, Special Envoy for Climate Change, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland 👉 13:30-15:00 | Roadmaps to decarbonize the buildings sector https://lnkd.in/exqpVnMR 🎙️ Moderator: Jonathan Duwyn, UN Environment Programme/Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) 🎙️ Nikhil Kolsepatil, Programme Coordinator - Energy and Climate, ICLEI South Asia 🎙️ Dr. Meltem Bayraktar, Program Manager, Urban Efficiency and Climate, WRI Türkiye 🎙️ Geoffrey Morgan, Senior infrastructure specialist - strategic initiatives, UNOPS (online) 🎙️ Naila Ahamed Noor, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Public Works of Bangladesh 🎙️ Chris Pobee Abbey, Principal Architect, Ministry of Works and Housing of Ghana 🎙️ Moustapha Diop, Technical Counselor for the Director of Construction and Housing of Senegal 🎙️ Smith Mordak, CEO, UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) #COP28 COP28 UAE #BuildingsPavilion #BuildingOurFuture