WORLD GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL ABOUT THE WORLD GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) catalyses the uptake of sustainable built environments for everyone, everywhere. Transforming the building and construction sector across three strategic areas — climate action, health & wellbeing, and resources & circularity — we are a global action network of over 70 Green Building Councils around the world. As members of the UN Global Compact, we work with businesses, organisations and governments to drive the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Through a systems change approach, our network is leading the industry towards net zero carbon, healthy, equitable and resilient built environments. GREEN BUILDING COUNCILS Green Building Councils (GBCs) are independent, non- profit organisations accelerating the uptake of sustainable buildings. As members of WorldGBC, they convene businesses and governments to collectively drive environmental, economic and social impact within the built environment on a national, regional and global scale. BETTER PLACES FOR PEOPLE The Better Places for People (BPFP) is a global programme of the WorldGBC dedicated to supporting GBCs, partners, and the global network to transition towards a healthy and sustainable built environment, creating substantial improvements to human health, wellbeing and quality of life for everyone, everywhere. The work of Better Places For People is aligned to WorldGBC’s North Star Goal , “a built environment that delivers healthy, equitable and resilient buildings, communities and cities”, while underpinning the six core principles of the Health & Wellbeing Framework , catalysing social and environmental impact across the entire built environment value chain. Cristina Gamboa CEO World Green Building Council The Race to Resilience campaign, delivered by the UN High-Level Climate Champions, calls on all of us to act in solidarity with the +4 billion people suffering from the impacts of our changing climate. To support this ongoing call to action, WorldGBC is proud to share this practical guide, inspiring the much-needed transition towards people-centric resilience and adaptation at different urban scales. It’s time to enable the capacity of the built environment to deliver social value and ensure the resilient solutions we need are implemented in our disrupted world. It's time to get resourceful and listen, learn, and respond to the needs of our communities. And it's time for impactful policy responses from local and regional leaders, to enable this much needed transformation. We invite all stakeholders with a responsibility of infrastructure assets to take ambitious climate action in alignment with the Race to Resilience. It’s time to embrace and scale low carbon, highly resilient and equitable built environments for everyone, everywhere. THE WORK OF WORLDGBC’S 'BETTER PLACES FOR PEOPLE' GLOBAL PROGRAMME IS KINDLY SUPPORTED BY:
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