On June 23rd, Alejandra Rivera, IHRB’s Built Environment Consultant, joined GBC Spain’s session of the #BuildingLife Project which is led and coordinated by WorldGBC. The project involves 10 GBCs in Europe, and seeks to promote climate action in the building sector by developing a roadmap at the European level and 10 national roadmaps to guide the necessary changes for the sector in the coming years.
Wednesday’s meeting focused on “The value of the lifecycle in relation to the decarbonisation of buildings”, and was the third in a series of events hosted by GBC Spain. The events are a participatory process for the Spanish National Forum bringing together key actors and experts from the building sector to discuss various topics and help develop the Spanish roadmap.
Alejandra contributed to this session with a presentation on “the values of circular and decarbonised building” placing special emphasis on the social value of decarbonisation, over the relatively better understood economic and environmental benefits. She highlighted IHRB’s recent report “Better Building(s) - Financing Human Rights-Based Decarbonisation in Europe’s Built Environment'' which shows how some of decarbonisation’s barriers can be turned into opportunities to maximise social value and mitigate human rights risks on key areas such as housing, health, and equality, among others.
Watch the recording below
For more information about GBC Spain and their participation on the #BuildingLife Project can be found here (Spanish).
