The built environment accounts for 37% of global emissions and is central to delivering the Action Agenda and the Global Stocktake goals. The COP31 Presidency has set out three key targets, one of which is a 15% global circular material usage rate by 2035, over double the current rate. This simply cannot be achieved without buildings.   

Circularity is climate action. Even with fully decarbonised energy, material-related emissions remain, and buildings drive around half of global material extraction. The solutions already exist, yet the global circularity rate has fallen from 9.1% to 6.9%. The priority is prevention and to use procurement and regulation to make reuse the norm.  

Global leaders from Belgium, Mauritius, UAE and the UK will explore cutting edge projects and new ideas. This event will analyse live building projects, industry examples, certification, procurement methodologies and government policies which have shaped circularity. We will see practical, replicable examples that will leave the audience energised.  

Hosted by World Green Building Council