With our cities producing an estimated 70% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, and consuming almost half the resources extracted globally, our sector holds a significant portion of the responsibility. Furthermore, in 2022, a year’s worth of biological resources were used in just seven months - that means currently we consume 75% more than the earth is able to replenish each year. The use and waste of materials and products is trending in a dangerously unsustainable direction, with latest estimates showing that the world is only 7.2% circular, meaning over 90% of everything we make is discarded after use. The report is being launched at a webinar on, 10:30AM and 4:00PM CET, delivered by our #CircularityAccelerator programme. This report presents strategies for the built environment to reduce its resource consumption and features market leadership and solutions from across WorldGBC’s global network.
The principles of the circular economy can help us to achieve global climate targets: from minimising the extraction of materials and using more efficient designs, to optimising nature-based solutions and closing material loops at the end of a building’s lifecycle. World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) and its network of over 75 Green Building Councils have launched the Circular Built Environment Playbook - a critical guide for the building and construction sector around the world to accelerate the adoption of circular economy and resource efficiency principles.
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