5th EDITION: Building Capacity for Climate Action | How to develop a workforce for a net zero world | Climate Framework
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Guest editor:
Mina Hasman,
RIBA, ARB, LEED AP BD+C,
WELL AP, BREEAM AP,
Sustainability Director, SOM
&?Climate Framework Initiative Lead
Connect with me on LinkedIn
Mina Hasman leads SOM’s sustainability and wellbeing daily operations and long-term vision for achieving excellence in practice. Developed in her leadership, the global Climate Framework Initiative unites industry and academia for collective climate action. She is also the author of the book – the RIBA Climate Guide – structured around the Climate Framework to equip built environment professionals with key knowledge to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
As a recognised expert in her field, Mina has been elected to and is actively involved in the UKGBC Board of Trustees, RIBA Council and the Practice & Policy Committee, UNEP/GlobalABC’s COP Taskforce, among others.
Building Capacity for Climate Action: Adopting the Climate Framework
The built environment and construction industry, as well as associated professional and educational bodies, are showing a momentous culture shift, reporting much more awareness and activity around climate literacy than what was the case a few years ago. However, for every organisation striving for improvement, there are some stuck in ‘business as usual’ mode, making only limited, ad-hoc progress.?
Some don’t even know where to start - either due to a lack of resources within their organisations or because of a shortfall of holistic expertise around the topics that are underpinned by climate change; including climate justice, circular economy, biodiversity, health and connectivity – among the heavily referenced energy and carbon. This has over the recent years, limited some of the leading industry organisations to move beyond their genuine commitments onto proper review and implementation of refreshed/new training programmes that incorporate core topics every built environment actor should be aware of and re-/uspkilled with.?
Cleantech needs green skills: how to develop a workforce for a net zero world
Businesses have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 however the lack of workers with green skills is making this difficult. PwC estimated that there is a shortage of 200,000 workers with skills in green energy.
Accelerating climate action through collaboration
This thought leadership piece by Dr Katrin Eggenberger, former foreign minister of Liechtenstein explains why we need to expedite climate action through international collaboration, to combat the escalating and destructive impacts of devastating levels of warming. Industry leaders need to implement climate protection measures by leveraging their purchasing power.
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What are green skills and why are they essential for the future workforce?
Green skills are the specific knowledge, abilities and values needed to promote the reduction of negative environmental impact in the workplace. Green skills are becoming essential for employers within and outside of green industries.
The state of the industry and the new way forward report launch
There are some businesses with limited resources and a shortfall of holistic expertise. Therefore there is a need for a forum and a facilitator entity to liaise within and beyond institutions, to identify programme and content gaps, and how to best fill them, while also encouraging the sharing of lessons learnt across the industry and academia.?
What's the secret to changing behaviours? A Deloitte podcast
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I'm taking a stand for a better built environment by building greater capacity for climate action?
See below some initiatives and efforts that drive this very much needed change:
Climate Framework's highlights from Futurebuild 2023
Climate Framework found Futurebuild’s efforts in curating sessions and creating opportunities for organisations, as well as individuals to join forces in creating a more sustainable built environment extremely valuable.?
Futurebuild’s expansive exhibition this year was especially curated to drive change across the entire built environment supply chain, by showcasing innovative, bio-based products and materials, sharing transformative initiatives, and enabling all parts of the sector to exchange sustainability-focused solutions in order to accelerate the transition to more resilient future.
A panel of experts from Climate Framework curated a session on 'Building Capacity for Climate Action: committing to Climate Framework.' Watch this session on-demand to find out about Climate Framework Initiative, its structure and implementation into new and existing climate-focused training programmes. This session touched upon the work undertaken with London South Bank University, to build a lifelong learning programme around net zero design, operation, procurement, leadership and management.
Missed Climate Framework's session? You can watch this session and others on-demand here.
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