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Foreword Advancing Net Zero Partners Contents Advancing Net Zero: Accelerating Towards Critical Mass World Map Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment: Delivering at Scale List of Commitment Signatories Advancing Net Zero Partners Bianca Wong Global Head of Sustainability, Kingspan Group Decarbonising the built environment is critical if we are to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. Global initiatives like WorldGBC’s Advancing Net Zero programme are vital to support and facilitate this change. At Kingspan we are on a journey, as part of our ten-year Planet Passionate Programme, to reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions across our supply chain, operations and within our products, while also exploring the use of pioneering bio-based and recycled materials in the construction sector. The onus is on all of us across the built environment value chain to engage positively and decisively to accelerate impact. Vicente Saiso Vice-President Global Sustainability, Cemex Climate change is the biggest challenge of our time, and the building materials industry must be at the forefront of decarbonising the built environment. Partnering with WorldGBC’s Advancing Net Zero programme we are further solidifying our commitment to being leaders on the path to net zero, as demonstrated by Science Based Targets Initiative’s (SBTi) validation of our decarbonisation targets and our pledge of becoming a net zero emissions company by 2050. Through our Future in Action programme, we are reducing carbon emissions in every part of our value chain and providing our customers with lower carbon products so they can also be part of the solution. Maria Mendiluce CEO, We Mean Busin Zero-emission, effici buildings and infrastr our collective goal to half by 2030 and dev net zero economy. W Coalition is proud to and forward-looking are cutting emission whole lifecycle of the own and operate. We to providing the very guidance and expert emission reduction c The demonstrable pr companies is then, in easier for policymake right regulatory fram net zero transition. 4 WorldGBC Advancing Net Zero Status Report 2023
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COP28: A Breakthrough for the Sector In Focus: GBC Leadership Action Building Resilience Across the Value Chain Towards Decarbonisation We Invite You to Join Us e ness Coalition ient and resilient ructure are vital for o cut emissions in velop an inclusive We Mean Business work with WorldGBC g businesses that ns throughout the e buildings they e’re committed best resources, tise to realise their commitments. rogress of those n turn, making it ers to create the meworks to drive the Alaa Abusiam CEO of Middle East and South Asia, Egis Group We can no longer ignore our responsibility for the ecological and climate crises. We must prioritise the relationship between nature and humans in our decision-making process. As a leading consulting, engineering, and operating firm headquartered in France, Egis is committed to aligning its global business portfolio with the Paris Agreement. In 2017, we became a signatory of The Shift Project’s manifesto, advocating for decarbonisation in Europe. Collaborating with WorldGBC’s Advancing Net Zero programme is an exciting opportunity to utilise our size and reach to help fight climate change, adapt to the energy transition, and create resilient infrastructure for our projects. Madeleine Rawlins Global Practice Leader - Climate Change, Mott MacDonald Taking action this decade to decarbonise our built environment is critical if we are to realise the potential of both new builds and retrofits to support the delivery of our net zero targets. As a signatory to WorldGBC’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment, and as a global design and engineering company, we are actively driving down carbon emissions in our own buildings and working with our clients and the communities we work in to do the same. Our teams are delivering reductions through urban planning and design that integrates nature-based solutions, circular economy, low carbon materials, renewable energy and energy efficiency. 5
