{"id":1004279513,"date":"2018-11-14T08:46:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T16:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004279513"},"modified":"2022-12-08T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T22:02:20","slug":"amal-clooney-praises-greenbuild-crowd-for-essential-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/amal-clooney-praises-greenbuild-crowd-for-essential-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Amal Clooney Praises Greenbuild Crowd for Essential Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1004279597\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004279597\" data-attachment-id=\"1004279597\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/amal-clooney-praises-greenbuild-crowd-for-essential-work\/amal-clooney\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Amal-Clooney.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1384,652\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Veronica Grecu&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1542210611&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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Amal Clooney\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Amal-Clooney.jpg?w=1024\" class=\"wp-image-1004279597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Amal-Clooney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Amal-Clooney.jpg 1384w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Amal-Clooney.jpg?resize=300,141 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Amal-Clooney.jpg?resize=768,362 768w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2018\/11\/Amal-Clooney.jpg?resize=1024,482 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004279597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amal Clooney<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speaking today at the official opening session of the 2018 Greenbuild conference in Chicago, international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney told her audience: \u201cClimate change is a global threat and it requires a global response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clooney said the lack of U.S. leadership in the struggle for \u201cclimate justice\u201d has been a major setback. In particular, the U.S.\u2019s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement removed a major source of funding for the effort to curb emissions. She is optimistic, however, that, when governments fail to act, people and companies will step up. \u201cI believe in the power of courageous individuals as agents of change,\u201d said Clooney.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the conference attendees directly, she said: \u201cThe work that you are all doing is essential. \u2026 People can really make a difference if they decide that changing one life is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clooney is best known for human\u2014not environmental\u2014advocacy. She has been an international defense lawyer and has served on a number of U.N. commissions on human rights. She is a fitting keynoter for this year\u2019s conference, however, since the theme of Greenbuild 2018 is <em>Human by Nature: The Intersection of Humanity and the Built Environment<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealthy places to live, work and play is a human right,\u201d said George Bandy, Mohawk Industries\u2019 vice president of sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the U.S. Green Building Council, Greenbuild is an international conference and expo that draws executives from architecture, construction, engineering, planning, and interior design\u00a0to brainstorm about and set goals for sustainability in buildings and communities. Since last year\u2019s conference in Boston, there have been Greenbuild conference in five countries, including Germany, Mexico and China.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of Greenbuild<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The international human rights lawyer spoke on the struggle for \u201cclimate justice\u201d and the ability of individuals and companies to effect change when governments fail to step up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":756,"featured_media":1004279603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21808,23891,21742,37301],"tags":[42992,32777],"class_list":["post-1004279513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-national","category-latest","category-uncategorized","tag-amal-clooney","tag-usgbc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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