Green Bonds / ADB
New financial products are providing innovative ways to combat climate change. Green bonds give investors the opportunity to invest in activities that provide a steady return and help the planet at the same time.
The Green Bond program enables ADB to support its developing member countries seeking to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to the consequences of climate change, whilst delivering environmentally sustainable growth to help reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of their people.
The Green Bond portfolio specifically targets projects that promote the transition to low carbon and climate resilient growth as set out in the ADB Green Bond Framework. [https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/adb-green-bonds-framework.pdf]
How can companies and investors benefit?
Projects eligible for ADB Green Bond financing should be in the following areas:
- Clean energy
- Sustainable transport and urban development
- Green land use and forest management
- Building climate resilience
- Strengthening climate change adaption and mitigation policies, governance, and institutions.
Eligible projects are identified by using the joint multilateral development bank approach for tracking and reporting climate change mitigation and adaptation finance.
Projects that deliver environmentally sustainable growth may also be eligible for Green Bond financing.
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Main stadium of Russia 2018 receive âgreenâ certification
[FIFATV] Certifying stadiums in accordance with sustainable standards is an important aim for the tournament organisers: building sporting arenas in lie with âgreen standardsâ not only reduces their impact on the environment but also, to a great extent, determines usage in the future, including a decrease in the use of water and energy. With just over four months remaining until the start of the tournament, the Luzhniki Stadium has received a final certificate of pass from international green standard #BREEAM.
http://greenbuildingreview.com/main-stadium-of-russia-2018-receives-green-certification/
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COGfx Study 3: Global Buildings
How do green buildings impact your thinking, sleep quality and health? You can soon find out for yourself. Researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and SUNY Upstate Medical University are recruiting 100 office buildings from around the world to be part of a new, first-of-its-kind study to examine the effects of global indoor environments on employee productivity and health.
For the next three years, the research team will assess employee cognitive function performance â a key indicator of productivity â using a proven, standardized app-based process. Participants will get the âForHealthâ kit from the Healthy Buildings team at Harvard that includes an environmental sensor for their desk and a wrist monitor to easily capture feedback on sleep and physical activity. The sensors connect seamlessly to a custom-built âForHealthâ app that integrates data from the sensors and is used to administer the tests.
The launch of the new study builds on the acclaimed COGfx studies, which revolutionized the concept of green building by unveiling its impact on human performance. The COGfx research shows significantly improved cognitive function scores among employees in green building environments, and this new, global study aims to better understand specific building-level factors that deliver improved thinking, productivity and health in building occupants around the world. The first COGfx study set the methodology and found a doubling of cognitive test scores when participants worked in a setting optimized for indoor environmental quality, like those found in green buildings. The second study took the research out of the lab, connecting green building with occupantsâ health and productivity in ten U.S. office buildings across geographic regions, finding a 26% improvement in cognitive test scores for those working in certified green buildings. Now, this third study will scale the research to further explore the connection between green buildings and human perform
LEED On China
As the green building industry in China grows by leaps and bounds, along with support from the government's 13th Five Year Plan that has sustainable infrastructural development as a primary focus, #USGBC introduces to you LEED On China. This brand-new video series celebrates Chinese leadership across sectors and industries that have wholeheartedly committed to a green and sustainable China. Watch the leaders talk about embracing LEED in this introductory video.
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http://greenbuildingreview.com/leed-on-china/
Thornico Building - From grey to green
FROM GREY TO GREEN
Kollision [kollision.dk], together with Martin Professional [martin.com], and in dialog with Christian Stadil [christianstadil.com] the owner of Thornico Group [thornico.com], and Thornico real estate director Ronald L.M. Bouwens, developed and implemented a complete exterior lighting design for the office building and parking house Thornico Building [thornicobuilding.com/EN] in the centre of Rotterdam. The building is a large complex of office spaces, shops, dining and cultural facilities, two inner atriums and close to 800 parking spaces. In this building the 'Company Karma philosophy' developed by Christian Stadil has been embodied as a series of green initiatives, for example covering large parts of the parking facilities with plants and integrating LED light as a communicative strategy. This unique interplay between communication, building and visitor is a powerful form of branding, which Kollision has coined Enhanced Brand Ambience, a communicative strategy that innovative companies can use to great effect.
LIGHT DESIGNS
The lighting designs range from pragmatic functional light at the car entrance and in the atriums, light sources emphasizing the green values on flag poles, at the main entrance area and at the reception, to the most significant part â 170 meters of vertical LED tubes distributed onto the 4.000 m2 facade. The tubes draw lines that underlines the monumentality of the architecture by emphasizing where the building starts and stops, the corner at Hartmansstreet and Westblaak, and furthermore indicate the main entrances - all supported by the dynamic content and lighting design. Slow movements of green nuances travels up the tubes replaced by rhythms of sinus-like curves of green, which travels across the facade's 200 meters, to more ambient and sparkling expressions, which gives the concrete building an almost ethereal look. The new lighting design makes the building look lighter and makes it stand out in the urban space.
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Marina One, Singapore
âMarina Oneâ, a high-density, mixed-use building complex in the heart of Singaporeâs new Marina Bay financial district, complements the Urban Redevelopment Authorityâs (URA) vision of making Singapore a âCity in a Gardenâ. Marina One is green in both a literal and performative sense. Flanked by two large urban parks, it comprises two office towers, two residential towers and a retail podium set around lush greenery. While the outer face of the four towers strictly follows the city grid, the maximised inner space is a free-formed three-dimensional biodiversity garden. This "Green Heart" will be the largest public Plaza in the Central Business District. Openings between the high-rises, sky gardens in-between the podium, the elevated towers, as well as the shape itself, improve the air flow and create a comfortable microclimate within the multiple levels of the central garden that covers up to 125% of the site area.
Due to ingenhoven architects´ integral concept of supergreenÂŽ, a comprehensive and ambitious architectural approach, Marina One aims to regreen the city. Its office towers meet the âLEED Platinum Pre-certificationâ and the local âGreen Mark Platinumâ standards for their sustainable design. The 30-storey towers, each with a floor area of 175,000 sq m, feature two sky gardens and two high-density floors on levels 28 and 29. The high-density floors will be the largest âGrade-Aâ office floors in Singapore. The luxurious âMarina One Residencesâ are housed in the two 34-storey towers with 1,042 city residences ranged in size from one to four bedroom units and penthouses. The building footprint is penetrated by air wells and slots to ensure natural ventilation for all of the units, thus meeting the stringent green mark platinum criteria.
In addition to a compact and efficient building layout, the environmentally-smart design also features energy-saving ventilation systems, a highly effective external sun-shading system and high performance glazing to reduce dire
Raffles City Hangzhou / UNStudio
UNStudio has completed a stunning new #LEED Gold-certified project in China that we hope will be a model for mixed-use development for years to come. Described by the Dutch studio as âa sustainable urban hub for living, working, and leisure,â the enormous complex in Hangzhou is the latest Raffles City to be erected in China. Located in the cityâs new central business district in Qianjiang New Town, this nearly 400,000-square-meter development is made iconic with its pair of 250-meter-tall interconnected towersâthe largest single building completed by #UNStudio.
-More: http://greenbuildingreview.com/raffles-city-hangzhou-unstudio/
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The Story of a Green Building
Sustainable design requires a team approach. This includes architects, construction crew, engineers, developers and an engaged client. Over the last 12 months, staff at the National Building Museum documented a âgreen teamâ that created PNC Place, a building one block away from the White House that is aiming for Platinum #LEED certification. Join curator Susan Piedmont-Palladino as she interviews a cast of characters that made this sustainable idea a reality.
(Source: National Building Museum @Vimeo) #greenbuilding
Green buildings are more than brick and mortar | Bryn Davidson
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Creating 'greener' buildings will help address climate change... right?
Green buildings can make a difference, but only if we start asking the right questions. If we can start to see the whole story of how our buildings impact the climate then we can start to make strides toward real 'net-positive' change. The technology isn't new, the strategies aren't rocket science - the hard step is shifting our thinking about what it means to build 'green'.
Bryn Davidson wears many hats. Sure, heâs a LEED-accredited building designer, sustainability consultant and small business owner with degrees in Architecture (UBC) and Mechanical Engineering (UC Berkeley). But he doesnât stop there. Heâs also one of the co-founders of Lanefab Design / Build; a Vancouver-based design and construction company that built the cityâs first laneway house in 2010. Since then, Lanefab has continued its specialization in energy efficient green homes and infill âlaneway housesâ by completing over 40 of the small infill homes. Bryn Davidson has been on the leading edge of the laneway house industry, and we donât see him slowing down anytime soon.
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Forget sustainable, productive architecture is the next big th...
Architect Dong-Ping Wong, part of the team looking to build a pool in New York's East River, introduces the concept of productive architecture, where designs aim to actually increase resources.
Filmed at TEDxDumbo 2012, a TEDxCity2.0 event.
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