Architecture 2030

Architecture 2030’s COP28 Wrap-Up
COP28 ended in Dubai last week, with significant implications for buildings, cities and the planet. While the eyes of the world were on the wording around fossil fuels, COP’s impacts can’t be boiled down to a few lines of text. For an on-the-ground view of what happened and why it mattered, read Architecture 2030’s latest E-News Bulletin.

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Decarbonizing the Built Environment, Deeper and Wider
Architecture 2030 delegates are gearing up to attend COP28 in Dubai this November, planning messaging for the world stage focused on Decarbonizing the Built Environment, Deeper and Wider.

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CLIMATE POSITIVE DESIGN OF THE EXTERIOR BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Architecture 2030 releases new aggregations of International Energy Agency (IEA) data indicating that the exterior built environment’s infrastructure and sitework impact has been underrepresented.

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CLIMATE BRIGHT SPOT: BUILDING SECTOR SUCCESS STORY & IPCC 1.5°C: WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
The remarkable decarbonization of the U.S. building sector with record CO2 emissions reductions: a story in six charts; &
After IPCC updates, what are our odds of staying below 1.5°C?

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ARCHITECTURE 2030 ANNOUNCES THE CARE TOOL
Building reuse represents a significant opportunity to avoid carbon emissions in the critical near term. The CARE Tool has dramatically streamlined the process of quantifying the carbon savings of a retrofit vs new construction, enabling owners, communities, and design teams to quickly quantify the carbon benefits and understand the value of reuse.

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COP27 OFFICIAL SIDE EVENT
Architecture 2030, together with ASHRAE and the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES), hosted an Official Blue Zone Side Event at COP27 on Nov 16: Planning, Design and Development in the Global South: The How To for People + Planet.

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CARBONPOSITIVE: BEYOND THE BUILDING
Pamela Conrad, an Architecture 2030 senior fellow and principal with CMG Landscape Architecture in San Francisco, explains why architects must focus sustainability efforts on the outdoor realm and exterior build environment.

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THE CURRENT 1.5°C BUDGET
The world is quickly depleting its 1.5°C carbon budget of 340-400 GT CO2, and waiting until 2050 to achieve zero emissions means giving up the 1.5°C goal altogether.

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A U.S. SUCCESS STORY
The U.S. building sector has not increased its energy consumption since 2005 even though we have added over 50 billion square feet (4.7 billion square metres) to our building stock, and today CO2 emissions in the entire sector continue to decline and are down 30% from 2005 levels.

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WHY THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT?

The built environment generates 42% of annual global CO2 emissions. Of those total emissions, building operations are responsible for 27% annually, while building and infrastructure materials and construction (typically referred to as embodied carbon) are responsible for an additional 15% annually.

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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Architecture 2030’s key strength is its grounding in and connection to the built environment industry. We provide cutting edge thought leadership as we align the architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, construction and planning community and political leaders around the urgency of achieving zero emissions by 2040.

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ACTIONS FOR A CLIMATE POSITIVE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Achieving a climate positive built environment requires actions in regional and urban planning, infrastructure, buildings, and materials.

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EMPOWERING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT SECTOR

For almost two decades, with modest resources, Architecture 2030 has achieved impressive shifts in outlook and practice within the U.S. and global built environment sectors. We create the initiatives necessary to empower designers, policymakers, and educators to facilitate systemic change and achieve a climate positive built environment.

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