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THE BRIEFING
Sustainability
A Sustainable Legacy MIDDLE EAST
Having a viable and effective sustainability agenda is absolutely vital writes CBRE’s Alexander Barzycki June 2022 | MEConstructionNews.com
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he year 2019 was a landmark year for the sustainability agenda. With the acknowledgment of climate change as an existential threat to our way of life, and the acceptance that the lack of meaningful action taken to date, meant we were on the verge of tipping into an irrecoverable climate crisis. It is now 2022 and this realisation has just become more important than we could have ever imagined. This
isn’t hyperbole. Today, our news feeds are filled with the evidence that the physical effects of climate change – stronger and more frequent hurricanes, storm surges, wildfires, heavy rainfall, and wave after wave of storms – are now happening with increasing frequency. The challenge, as set out in the 2016 Paris Agreement, was to ensure that action was taken to hard limit global average temperature increases to 2-degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by 2050, however
40%
The built environment contributes about 40% of global carbon emissions
