{"id":1004260187,"date":"2018-08-27T03:06:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T11:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004260187"},"modified":"2022-12-08T22:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:34:46","slug":"net-zero-concept-to-take-over-19-cities-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/net-zero-concept-to-take-over-19-cities-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Cities Commit to Net-Zero Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Anca Gagiuc<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/08\/architecture-22039_1920.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1004260205\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/net-zero-concept-to-take-over-19-cities-by-2030\/architecture-22039_1920\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/08\/architecture-22039_1920.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,620\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"architecture-22039_1920\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/08\/architecture-22039_1920.jpg?w=800\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1004260205 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/08\/architecture-22039_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/08\/architecture-22039_1920.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/08\/architecture-22039_1920.jpg?resize=300,233 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/08\/architecture-22039_1920.jpg?resize=768,595 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Some of the most iconic skylines in the world are going green. Nineteen city leaders, representing 130 million urban citizens, have signed the Net Zero Carbon Building Declaration to ensure all new buildings operate with a neutral carbon footprint by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The mayors of Copenhagen, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York City, Paris, San Francisco, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, Tshwane, South Africa, Washington, D.C.,&nbsp;Portland, Ore., Newburyport, Mass., San Jose, Calif., and Santa Monica, Calif., \u2014all part of the C40 group\u2014signed a pledge to make all buildings, old or new, net-zero carbon by 2050. In other words, these buildings will be retrofitted to use energy ultra-efficiently, while meeting any remaining energy needs from renewable sources.<\/p>\n<p>The commitment was made ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco next month and marks out a route map to turn aspirations of the Paris Agreement into reality\u2014to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below two degrees above preindustrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees above preindustrial levels. To remain within a 1.5-degree temperature rise, average per capita emissions across C40 cities need to drop from more than 5 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per capita today to around 2.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per capita by 2030.<\/p>\n<h2>The toll of urban emissions<\/h2>\n<p>Buildings in urban areas are one of the largest sources of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/greenhouse-gas-emissions-worlds-most-responsible-companies\/\">greenhouse gas emissions<\/a> and typically account for more than half of a city\u2019s total emissions on average. One of the consequences is the premature death of about half a million people every year due to outdoor air pollution caused by energy used in buildings.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, in London, Los Angeles and Paris, buildings account for more than 70 percent of their overall emissions. For many other cities, transportation is a bigger culprit when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, in which case dense, walkable neighborhoods are just as important as net-zero construction.<\/p>\n<p>Net-zero construction has been gaining ground in the U.S. in recent years, with some cities taking extra steps in implementing new requirements designed to cut down on carbon dioxide emissions. California now wants all its new buildings to be net-zero by 2020 and requires <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ca-raises-the-bar-for-solar-installation\/\">solar panels to be installed<\/a>&nbsp;on new homes.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCombating climate change is a moral necessity, an environmental imperative, and an economic opportunity\u2014and Los Angeles is proud to be a leader in creating our clean energy future. By pledging to reduce the carbon footprint of our buildings, cities are moving us another step closer to the goals of the Paris Agreement\u2014and the promise of lower emissions, less pollution, and more renewable energy innovation,\u201d<\/em> Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayors in the U.S. and around the world pledge to make all new buildings carbon-neutral by 2030. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":1004260205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,21742,21786],"tags":[41744,41747],"class_list":["post-1004260187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-latest","category-sustainability","tag-net-zero-carbon","tag-paris-agreement"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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