Daily COP26 briefing: today's COP26 briefing includes melting Antarctic ice, Norman Foster's calls for "higher standards" on embodied carbon and a film screening of Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun project.
Throughout COP26, we are publishing regular updates of what's happening at the conference and surrounding events. See all our COP26 coverage here.
Arup exhibits ice cores from before the industrial revolution
Engineering studio Arup has collaborated with the British Antarctic Survey and the Royal College of Art to display Antarctic ice cores from 1765 at the Glasgow Science Centre. The cores will melt during COP26.
Named Polar Zero, the exhibition aims to demonstrate "the fragility of the Antarctic Peninsula ice" by showing the melting ice core that predates the Industrial Revolution. Norman Foster calls for "higher standards" on embodied carbon at COP26
Norman Foster has joined a growing number of architects calling for green building certifications that take embodied emissions from materials into account in order to meet net-zero carbon goals.
Speaking in a talk with US climate envoy John Kerry during the COP26 climate conference, Foster pointed out that sustainability standards such as LEED and BREEAM focus on user wellbeing and operational omissions but neglect embodied carbon.
Richard Hutten speaking at COP26 fringe today
Dutch designer Richard Hutten is set to talk about sustainable and circular design at a COP26 fringe event at Stra...