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Microsoft’s total carbon emissions have risen by almost 30 per cent since 2020, according to the company’s annual Environmental Sustainability Report released on Wednesday. While its direct emissions and energy use dropped by more than 6 per cent, its indirect emissions set it back. With the company being a cloud supplier, the construction of more data centres was the main cause. Microsoft highlighted the need for collaboration across industries to develop and use greener building materials, like concrete and steel, and hardware components, like chips, to help reach its goal of becoming carbon...
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Another month, another climate record topples. February saw global air temperatures break records, while sea surface temperatures were also at the highest ever recorded, according to scientists at the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Meanwhile, the world’s carbon dioxide emissions from energy continued to rise in 2023. The physical consequences of climate change — storms, floods, fires, extreme heat — are affecting communities rich and poor across the planet. Real estate and the buildings around us are on the frontline of this challenge. The built world is the biggest contributor to glo...
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At least 16% of EU countries’ worst performing non-residential buildings will be targeted for renovation by 2030 and 26% by 2033 as lawmakers backed a law today (March 12) to curb poor energy performance and reduce energy consumption in EU buildings in a plenary vote of the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg. The revision of the European Performance Buildings Directive (EPBD), proposed by the EU executive in December 2021, is meant to modernise Europe’s building stock by 2050 by setting minimum energy performance standards in the non-residential sector, such as office buildings, schools an...
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