14TH GREEN BUILDING CONVENTION 2021
Lisa Reynolds – Executive Director of The Green Building Council South Africa
Over the years, the GBCSA Convention has been working towards achieving a sustainable future. From Dare to Lead, the Race to Zero, Beyond Shaping Cities of Tomorrow and, finally, Near Possible – Mapping the Path to a Sustainable Future – they all represented the collective drive towards achieving a built environment in which both people and planet can thrive.
Now, in 2021, as we continue to adapt to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and with climate change effects being felt more around the world, it all comes down to ONE. We only have ONE chance to get it right. ONE chance to implement the roadmap to sustainability and regeneration to save our ONE planet for this generation and the next.
ONE represents action – aggressive, ambitious and innovative. ONE represents one people, united against the threat of climate change. It represents one individual after the other joining together to create ONE collective that has the power to change everything.
Ultimately, it’s about creating a global built environment that acts as ONE powerful force of nature, effecting meaningful change that counts.
We hope you will join us – 20 twenty ONE, the year we make every voice count.
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The GBCSA works with its membership community to inspire a built environment in which people and planet thrive. We are passionate, collaborative planet shapers that operate across the commercial, residential and public sectors to ensure that buildings and homes are designed, built and operated in an environmentally sustainable way. Our combined influence drives competitive, viable and professional membership advantages. GBCSA’s affiliations enable access to a community of experts at home and abroad.
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Together we create a platform for advocacy, training and certification.
“The pandemic has really become kind of an accelerator for change. It can be seen in a very positive sense. I think it has been able to break down habits – bad habits in many cases about management.”
“We do say that money makes the world go round and so, finance certainly has a massive role to play in taking us in a more sustainable trajectory and it’s pivotal in sustainable development. So, what we really are aiming for is the reallocation of capital towards more sustainable outcomes.”
“Everybody’s so anxious, we don’t know what is next. That is deemed to be the new norm and that is not necessarily the new norm. Education should have come in first to proceed to help us move forward.”
The Green Building Council of South Africa is dedicated to building a greener future. Our purpose is to inspire a built environment in which people and planet thrive. Buildings are one of the main contributors to climate change. Building green is an opportunity to use resources efficiently and address climate change while creating healthier and more productive environments for people and communities.
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