A summit organised by RIBA and Architects Declare is seeking ideas for reducing carbon emissions from the built environment ahead of the COP26 climate conference in November.
The Built Environment Summit, which takes place at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London just before COP26, aims to alert governments to the need to reduce emissions from the built environment, which account for almost 40 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions.
Summit to draw COP attention to build environment
The deadline for research that will be discussed at the summit has been extended to 5 July.
"The aim of the summit is to embolden governments to support and work with the international built environment industry to decarbonise construction," said RIBA. "We cannot meet the Paris Agreement's 1.5 degrees Celcius limit above pre-industrial levels without making substantial changes to the way we design, build, operate and adapt our built environment," it added.
"The Built Environment Summit will bring that message from the international construction industry to governments at COP26."
Summit taking place ahead of COP26
COP26, or Conference of the Parties, is the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference. It is set to take place from 31 October to 12 November 2021 in Glasgow.
RIBA and Architects Declare are inviting architects to submit research and documentation of exemplar projects to be used at the conference and to form a report that will be...