Green building councils (GBCs) across the globe unite to take part in the World Green Building Council’s (WorldGBC) annual World Green Building Week (WGBW) on September 12–16 2022 to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals.
As communities around the world experience the impacts of the global energy and cost of living crisis, the WorldGBC campaign—#BuildingforEveryone—calls on the global building and construction sector to accelerate the uptake of solutions for low carbon and highly resilient built environments. Now in its 14th year, and led by a network of over 70 national GBCs and their 36,000 members, the week-long event is the world’s largest campaign to accelerate sustainable built environments for everyone, everywhere.
This year the campaign is putting people back at the heart of the built environment by demonstrating how the network is catalyzing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Throughout the week, the GBC network will host events across the world and share examples of #BuildingforEveryone built environments that drive climate action and thriving communities and economies. This year’s campaign ties into WorldGBC’s 20-year anniversary and the #BuildingToCOP27 initiative, which aims to elevate the role the built environment can play as a critical climate solution in the context of the UN climate negotiations taking place in Egypt in November 2022.
#BuildingforEveryone’s three themes highlight how the built environment can support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
- Building for the Planet: The climate crisis is also a global health crisis. Unless we take urgent action to reduce climate breakdown now, the health of millions of people will be negatively affected by increased temperatures, infectious diseases will spread faster, and it will be harder to grow the food we need to live healthily.
- Building for Communities: 1.6 billion people will lack access to safe, adequate housing by 2025. To combat the global cost of living crisis, we need to take urgent action now to address inadequate, unaffordable housing and enhance equity, economic productivity, and environmental sustainability.
- Building for Economies: Sustainable built environments bolster our economies’ most important asset—nature. Accelerating a more circular and regenerative economy will create new jobs and savings on energy bills. We need to take urgent action now to advance economies that are more productive and resilient for our communities and our planet.
WGBW22 Events
Throughout the week, there will be a range of events taking place around the world. WorldGBC will also host webinars dedicated to creating resilient homes and equity in the built environment.
Source: World Green Building Council
