Synapse: This Week's News for LA’s Best Buildings
The Path Forward to Achieving Carbon Neutrality in the Built Environment
Achieving operations that balance economic, social, and environmental goals is one of the major challenges the building industry is facing today. Less clear is how building owners and developers can seize the opportunities offered by zero-emissions mandates and disruptive energy technologies to generate business opportunities and value for their stakeholders.
“Explosion of Ambition” Leads SBTi to Set Minimum Targets at 1.5°C
The corporate sector is ready and able to adjust to new 1.5°C-aligned emissions reductions targets, according to Alberto Carrillo Pineda, a co-founder of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the global body enabling businesses to set emissions reduction targets in line with climate science.
LADWP Board Leads on Equity
Mayor Garcetti’s directive to City departments followed unprecedented worldwide calls for social justice and an end to institutional racism following the brutal murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin. Executive Directive 27 led to LADWP taking a comprehensive review of racial equity and launching several key initiatives.
The Clean Energy Economy has a Diversity Problem. Let’s Change That as We Build Back
At first glance, the outlook for the clean energy economy is far more positive today than it was one year ago. Back then, I was one of many with my head in my hands, watching years of job growth be erased in a matter of days by Covid-19. In no energy sector was this as pronounced as the one I represent, energy efficiency, which had lost 360,000 jobs by June 2020.
Ecosystem Health Report Card for Los Angeles County Launch Event
On July 14, the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge hosted a launch event for its Ecosystem Health Report Card for Los Angeles County — the region’s most comprehensive evaluation of ecosystem health and proposed strategies and actions to move us toward a more sustainable Los Angeles.
Source: Realcomm