Thank you Andrew this is certainly a timely initiative from Edward Mazria and Architecture2030.
But I am at a loss to make sense of this statement:
“… in the United States, the building sector has not increased its energy consumption since 2005, even though the U.S. has added more than 50 billion square feet of buildings during that time.”
In ‘Bringing Embodied Carbon Upfront’, the World Green Building Council highlights that most carbon can be saved by building less (80%) - such as by retrofit and adaptation - or not building at all (100%).
As mentioned at recent CLF Vancouver event re Circular Economy, we cannot continue to add one New York City to the planet every 34 days (especially in wealthier societies) and still claim to be able to ‘decarbonize’.
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