Architecture 2030’s COP28 Wrap-Up
December 2023 | announcements
COP28: A Report Card
COP28 ended in Dubai last week, with significant implications for buildings, cities and the planet. While the eyes of the world were on the wording around fossil fuels, COP’s impacts can’t be boiled down to a few lines of text. For an on-the-ground view of what happened and why it mattered, read our COP28 Report Card.
Architecture 2030 @ COP28
Architecture 2030 set out an ambitious agenda for UN COP28. In more than a dozen presentations, in venues from the Buildings Pavilion to the UN Main Stage to spaces hosted by Denmark, Thailand and Morocco, our 20 in-person and virtual delegates made the urgent case for built environment solutions in national mitigation and adaptation plans, climate finance and global ambition targets. Links for the recorded presentations can be found on our COP28 webpage.
Architecture 2030 continued our history of thought leadership by expanding built environment conversations at COP28. We brought special attention to strategies that are often overlooked: re-using the buildings we already have, scaling up low-carbon traditional building principles and materials, and turning to nature for both bio-materials and infrastructure solutions. Our goals: breaking down the silos that hamper progress, and challenging inherent bias for new buildings, modern materials and Global North approaches.
– Vincent Martinez, President and COO, Architecture 2030
Thank you, COP28 Delegates
This year’s success was the work of many hands. Thank you to these impressive thought leaders who represented Architecture 2030, either in person or virtually, during the two weeks of COP28:
Andrea Love, Payette | Anica Landreneau, HOK | Carl Elefante, Quinn Evans Architects | Chris Hardy, Sasaki | Ed Mazria, Architecture 2030 | Eric Corey Freed, Cannon Design | Jiexin Li, Architecture 2030 | Julie Hiromoto, HKS | Kelly Alvarez Doran, Ha/f Climate Design | Lauren Alger, STV | Lindsey Wikstrom, Mattaforma | Lisa Richmond, Climate Strategy Works | Lori Ferriss, Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design | Pablo La Roche, Arcadis | Pamela Conrad, Climate Positive Design | Pamela Yonkin, HDR | Prem Sundharam, DLR Group | Scott Francisco, Pilot Projects Design Collective | Vincent Martinez, Architecture 2030 | Wekesa George, BuildX Studio | Yasemin Kologlu, SOM
Architecture 2030 COP28 Reports
Architecture 2030’s COP28 Wrap-Up
COP28: A Report Card
We must get out of the fossil fuel business
COP28: Considering the Built Environment and Food, Agriculture, and Water | Prem Sundharam
COP 28: Stepping Towards Decarbonization | Chris Hardy
COP28: The Infrastructure Opportunity | Lauren Alger
COP28: Why We Need Radical Change and Just Transition | Anica Landreneau
COP28: How I’m making sense of the UN Climate Summit | Lisa Richmond
COP28: Nature-based cooling, building emissions, and human health | Pablo La Roche
COP28: Local Advocacy Accelerates Climate Action | Julie Hiromoto
Exploring Architecture 2030’s COP28 Themes
Architecture 2030 COP28 Delegation
Decarbonizing the Built Environment, Deeper and Wider
ABOUT US
Architecture 2030’s mission is to rapidly transform the built environment from the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions to a central solution to the climate crisis.