In this Mediterranean port city where Antoni Gaudi’s surreal
architectural masterpieces have forever altered the skyline and raised
expectations, an international gathering of sustainable building experts
has plotted changes to the world’s built landscape that could be as
revolutionary and even more transformational.
Meeting in the architectural shadow of Gaudi’s inimitable Sagrada Familia church, a parade of presenters and leaders at the World Sustainable Building Conference called for an urgent and widely replicable “green building” response to a looming world housing crisis that has potentially grave impacts on climate change.
This is like the Kyoto for building, and the building sector for Kyoto,” said Antonio Lucio Gil, the conference’s global vision chair, referring to the 1997 conference in Japan that set global greenhouse gas reduction goals.
“We have an obligation to think about the future because something is happening with the climate and we have to be ready,” said Mr. Gil. “Over the long term, we must get acceptance for sustainable building practices in the marketplace and among political leaders. We need to talk about the needs of developing countries.”
Read more: In Barcelona, a global call for energy-efficient buildings | Decarboni.se
Meeting in the architectural shadow of Gaudi’s inimitable Sagrada Familia church, a parade of presenters and leaders at the World Sustainable Building Conference called for an urgent and widely replicable “green building” response to a looming world housing crisis that has potentially grave impacts on climate change.
This is like the Kyoto for building, and the building sector for Kyoto,” said Antonio Lucio Gil, the conference’s global vision chair, referring to the 1997 conference in Japan that set global greenhouse gas reduction goals.
“We have an obligation to think about the future because something is happening with the climate and we have to be ready,” said Mr. Gil. “Over the long term, we must get acceptance for sustainable building practices in the marketplace and among political leaders. We need to talk about the needs of developing countries.”
Read more: In Barcelona, a global call for energy-efficient buildings | Decarboni.se
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