Read moreEdward Mazria writes to urge the UNFCCC to take immediate action by publicly posting and widely disseminating the 67% probability 1.5˚C carbon budget, to avert the accelerating and damaging effects of climate change.
Read moreThe global teach-in will showcase the most effective building materials, construction methods, design tools, architecture and planning strategies, practices and policies for dramatically and rapidly reducing the embodied and operational carbon emissions as we RESET our targets and actions to meet the Paris Agreement.
September 8, 2020
North & South America
September 17, 2020
Europe, Middle East & Africa
September 22, 2020
Asia, Asia Pacific & Oceania
Read moreToday we have unprecedented scientific knowledge to predict impending disasters as well as the technology and capacity to effectively address them, yet we’ve grown complacent about the future impacts of our current actions...
Check It OutArchitecture 2030 guest edited the January 2020 issue of ARCHITECT Magazine. The Carbon Issue is dedicated to the urgent need for climate action, with decarbonization strategies for materials, design, practice, and policy.
Learn MoreA first-of-its-kind CONFERENCE and EXPO focused on how to rapidly reduce embodied and operational carbon in the global built environment, stemming from unprecedented construction and urbanization over the next four decades. March 2-4 in Los Angeles.
Learn MoreIntroducing Achieving Zero: a "how-to" framework and a set of tools to enable cities and sub-national governments (state, provincial, and regional) to achieve crucial emissions reduction targets in the building sector.
Learn MoreThe ZERO Code is a national and international building energy standard for new construction that integrates cost-effective energy efficiency standards with on-site and/or off-site renewable energy resulting in Zero Net Carbon (ZNC) buildings.
Learn MoreThe Carbon Smart Materials Palette is an immediately applicable, high-impact pathway to embodied carbon reductions in the built environment. It identifies key attributes that contribute to a material’s embodied carbon impact, and offers guidelines and options for emissions reductions.
Learn MoreThe ZERO Code for California is a California building energy standard for new construction that integrates cost-effective energy efficiency standards with on-site and/or off-site renewable energy resulting in Zero Net Carbon (ZNC) buildings.
Learn MoreThe much anticipated final course of the AIA+2030 Online Series has arrived on AIAU, marking the completion of this highly-rated professional education program.
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include the following:
A framework of integrated policies for national and sub-national governments to phase out CO2 emissions in the built environment by 2040.
National and International building energy standard for new construction resulting in zero-net-carbon buildings.
A calculator to determine an existing or new buildings’ progress to Zero Net Carbon, based on location, building type and size.
Chinese and International firms designing cities, towns, developments and buildings to low carbon/carbon neutral standards.
Planning and design guides for sustainable and resilient buildings, communities and cities worldwide.
Online and in-person professional education series for high-performance/carbon neutral building design.
An attribute-based approach to, and design guidance for, embodied carbon reductions in the built environment.
A competition recognizing exemplary design in reducing energy and emissions, and addressing adaptation and resilience in the built environment.
