FIDIC State of the World report - Building sustainable communities in a post-Covid world

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Maria Rózpide Typsa

As an industry, we must lead these transformations by introducing the perspective of sustainable development in our daily work, propose new solutions to better tackle climate change and to promote a global sustainable future. Human settlement are, in general, the result of a more or less long historical evolution. Additionally, urban areas and their associated infrastructures often have development implications that last for generations. However only in recent decades environmental, social, and governance factors has begun to be taken in consideration in their development. This underlines the importance of acting decisively to transform human settlements into truly sustainable communities in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the urgency to act to tackle the climate change actual crisis.

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FIDIC State of the World report - Building sustainable communities in a post-Covid world

Published on Sep 23, 2021

FIDIC

The newly launched State of the World series is now into its fourth report in 2020. So far, we have explored the investment requirement to meet the SDGs, which equate to approximately $7 trillion per year, the need to tackle the global water crisis and the consequences of inaction and the solutions that will help us move forward. This latest report continues with such ambition. The global Covid-19 pandemic put pressure on global healthcare systems, labour markets, capital markets and, possibly most importantly, communities. Before the world knew it, communities were forced online, separated and the traditional ways of working and living shifted. Green spaces were needed in crowded cities for exercise, flats were suddenly felt more confined and greater social distancing was needed in buildings, transport and day-to-day life.