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Building Industry Leaders to World Governments: It's Time to Lead on Climate

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021
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Buildings are the largest source of the world's carbon emissions globally and account for approximately 40% of total emissions.

Key Points: 
  • Buildings are the largest source of the world's carbon emissions globally and account for approximately 40% of total emissions.
  • When accounting for the embodied carbon of building interiors, systems, and associated infrastructure, that percentage is substantially higher.
  • Government leaders from around the world will be convening for climate negotiations at COP 26 October 31 through November 12 in Glasgow, Scotland.
  • It is imperative that world leaders meeting in Glasgow fully commit to adopting aggressive building policies, incentives, and codes that meet the 1.5oC carbon budget.

Building Industry Leaders to World Governments: It's Time to Lead on Climate

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
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SANTA FE, N.M., Oct. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 60 of the largest and most influential international architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, planning, and construction firms, collectively responsible for over $300 billion in annual construction, along with two dozen organizations representing over one million building industry professionals worldwide, issued a Communiqué to government leaders headed to the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 26) challenging them to step up their emissions reduction targets for the built environment. The firms and organizations are signatories of the 1.5oC COP26 Communiqué — an open letter to sovereign governments demonstrating the firms' and organizations' commitment to meet the Paris Agreement's 1.5oC carbon budget and demanding governments do the same.

Key Points: 
  • Buildings are the largest source of the world's carbon emissions globally and account for approximately 40% of total emissions.
  • When accounting for the embodied carbon of building interiors, systems, and associated infrastructure, that percentage is substantially higher.
  • Government leaders from around the world will be convening for climate negotiations at COP 26 October 31 through November 12 in Glasgow, Scotland.
  • It is imperative that world leaders meeting in Glasgow fully commit to adopting aggressive building policies, incentives, and codes that meet the 1.5oC carbon budget.

SuperWorld CEO Hrish Lotlikar To Deliver Keynote Speech At Venice Architecture Biennale

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Tuesday, September 14, 2021
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperWorld CEO Hrish Lotlikar, who was recently named one of the Top 30 Most Influential People in the Metaverse , will deliver a keynote speech at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale.

Key Points: 
  • LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperWorld CEO Hrish Lotlikar, who was recently named one of the Top 30 Most Influential People in the Metaverse , will deliver a keynote speech at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale.
  • SuperWorld is a virtual world in augmented reality (AR), digitally mapped over the surface of the Earth.
  • Plots of SuperWorld land are represented as 64.8 billion non-fungible tokens (NFT) corresponding to real world space.
  • Any user in SuperWorld can explore and create AR content, engage in a virtual real estate marketplace, or buy and sell NFTs in the SuperWorld NFT Salon.