The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) picked 17 ‘exemplary sustainable projects’ to be part of the Build Better Now virtual pavilion during COP26 in Glasgow.
COP 26, the 26th annual Conference of the Parties, is an international United Nations summit where more than 190 attendees collaborate to face the challenges of climate change. This year, 2021, the UK is hosting the conference and it aims to elevate the crises as much as possible to stay within the 1.5-degree global warming threshold through enormous reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and transitioning to a low carbon economy.
The COP26 Built Environment Virtual Pavilion has been designed and developed by the Visualisation and VR team at AECOM in collaboration with exhibition designers Install Archive “With COP26 in November, the world is ready to tackle climate change and the built environment has a crucial part to play,” ?CEO at the UK Green Building Council Julie Hirigoyen
“We know why we must accelerate climate action and Build Better Now shows how we can get there,” she added.
The Build Better Now exhibition is held to explore approaches to combat climate change and limit the impact of the built environment?the latter is responsible for about 40 percent of global CO2 emissions. The virtual exhibition will showcase “inspiring, global ideas” for how to create a more sustainable built environment.
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