WGBC CEO comments on future of built environment following COP26

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The World Green Building Council (WGBC) has published comments from its CEO, Cristina Gamboa, on the future of the built environment following COP26 which concluded on 12 November 2021. Gamboa argues that more urgent action and concerted efforts from industry, sub-national governments, national governments and the finance community is needed to ‘give us a realistic chance of meeting the Paris Agreement and keeping a 1.5⁰C limit to global warming within reach’. Gamboa also said that ‘debating whether Glasgow is a "win" or "lose" detracts from some of the important conversations and actions we need to take as we look to COP27 in Egypt in 2022’, adding that ‘the "Glasgow Climate Pact" keeps 1.5⁰C alive – albeit barely since new commitments put us on a 2.4⁰C path of warming – which gives me some grounds for hope’.