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To make offices safe during COVID-19, buildings need a breath of fresh air

GreenBiz

The data seems to indicate that infections occur in dense inside areas with shared airspace, compounded by recirculating that air — the definition of a modern office building. . These denser, more shared office buildings were considered more sustainable because they used less energy and contained more people on a smaller carbon footprint.

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Facing up to Covid, climate and equality challenges

Business Green

They show starkly where it is failing: prioritising efficiency over resilience in healthcare, not accounting for the enormous cost of carbon emissions, and allowing persistent inequalities to develop within societies. As an anecdotal example, Netflix added 10 million subscribers in a lockdown-dominated second quarter.

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Could a Scottish basalt quarry help turbocharge the carbon cycle?

Business Green

The staircase-shaped rocks that protrude out from the Irish Sea at the Giant's Causeway are the best known example of the geological phenomenon that results from rapidly-cooling magma. But now an industry is growing around the promise of fast-tracking this natural carbon sequestration process to help tackle climate change.

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To make offices safe during COVID-19, buildings need a breath of fresh air

Business Green

The data seems to indicate that infections occur in dense inside areas with shared airspace, compounded by recirculating that air - the definition of a modern office building. These denser, more shared office buildings were considered more sustainable because they used less energy and contained more people on a smaller carbon footprint.

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New report says the building and construction sector can reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050

Envirotec Magazine

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.

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The prospects for I-1631 eliminating 20 million tons of carbon pollution annually by 2035

Low Carbon Prosperity

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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Climate Crisis, Global Warming, Carbon Neutral, Zero Waste: Meaningful Buzzwords or Passing Fads?

Green Business Bureau

Whatever your view is on climate change, we must all agree that climate change is constant; we are and will continue to move through the historical cooling and warming cycles. Terms such as climate change, climate crisis, carbon neutral, negative emissions, etc. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5