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The need for downstream management is also greatly reduced, which helps TopHat to minimise its overall waste footprint and downstream value chain emissions. According to the company, a typical TopHat building can help save around 61,828 kilograms of CO2— that is 45% the amount of CO2 produced by a traditional home. This impact is equivalent to living car free for 30 years. Embodied carbon in a TopHat home is around 729 kilograms, which is 1/27th that of a traditional home (19,692 kilograms CO2).\u003C/p>\u003Cp>As the built environment sector strives towards more sustainable building solutions, modular construction offers a promising solution to reduce the sector’s carbon emissions. Corporate leaders and governments also have an important role in considering the waste and value-chain emissions of their operations. By adopting more sustainable procurement choices, specifically for buildings, they can address these challenges. 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The EcoCasa programme is part of a country-wide effort to minimise the impact of the existing building stock, while keeping pace with population growth. For something as large and important as greening the built environment, multi-stakeholder partnerships can bring about the required change. The EcoCasa programme is supported by government regulations, such as the building energy norms and an energy code. It is also a programme in which several initiatives work collectively to incentivise green building construction from different angles. Apart from the EcoCasa programme, the INFONAVIT green mortgage programme supports building efficiency measures. The EDGE programme helps design and certify resource-efficient buildings and gradually move to a zero carbon building stock.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Mexico City offers tax breaks for buildings with solar water heaters. 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It lies at the intersection of multiple, mutually inclusive issues: purpose-led design aimed at social impact, climate justice, equal access to healthcare for vulnerable populations, use of locally-sourced, sustainable building materials, local knowledge and craftsmen. Needs of the local population were kept in mind when the architects built the canal and two large storage tanks at either end—these elements serve as an essential resource in an area where the groundwater is extremely saline. There are multiple policy takeaways from this case: firstly, climate change impacts are contextual, and a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work. Instead of building a conventional structure, the architects accounted for local needs, local landscape, local wisdom and local climate change impacts before designing and constructing the hospital. 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The architects, thus, purposefully adapted to the surrounding riverine landscape by creating a canal that cuts across the hospital premises, aiding microclimatic cooling, while separating inpatients from outpatients. Two water tanks at either end of the canal also hold harvested rainwater at the site. Additional green design features, such as gardens, courtyards, pools and trees, have also been embedded in the whole campus to attract sunlight and provide natural ventilation. 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This business is one small step in that direction. From a local perspective, the business is an example of multi-stakeholder collaboration between local entrepreneurs in Africa, start-ups in Europe, international governmental ministries (German BMU) and local populations. From a GloCal (global + local) perspective, it does a few things: connects rural markets to urban markets, links local markets to global markets, creates more visibility for local products, promotes local entrepreneurship by encouraging and empowering locally-owned and managed microfactories for e-mobility uptake, and fosters knowledge sharing by providing information on how to assemble the bikes.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Globally, nearly a quarter of energy-related carbon emissions are created by the transport sector alone, which is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. To achieve the Paris Agreement climate goals, decarbonising the sector is a global imperative. Africa, in that sense, sits at a crossroads with a combination of two opposing mobility trends: very low levels of motorisation as compared to the rest of the world plus one of the fastest vehicle growth rates. Compared to Europe’s 4% annual vehicle sales, most African countries’ sales are rapidly increasing at over 10% annually.¹ Driven by rapid population growth, urbanisation and economic growth, Sub-Saharan Africa is going through a mobility revolution. However, infrastructure challenges, such as bad roads and poor connectivity to rural areas, punctuate the development landscape. Africa is also slowly but surely turning a new page, transitioning to low-emission mobility technologies. 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In terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction, the average GHG emissions from one electric bus per kilometre is 40% less than a diesel vehicle. Nearly 0.63 million tonnes of carbon emission reduction was achieved in 2017 due to the transition.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>There are multiple reasons behind the uptake of electric mobility in Shenzhen. Firstly, the presence of both national- and city-level policies created an enabling atmosphere for the EV mobility system to develop. Secondly, innovation was catalysed with the help of new business models paired with financial support. The integration of a national subsidy and a city government subsidy enabled the initiative to grow and, eventually, become self-sustaining. 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Today, there are over 16,000 e-buses on its streets.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>The Chinese city of Shenzhen led by example for electric mobility in public transport. In 2017, it picked up the gauntlet of the energy transition and electrified all public buses to cut emissions, reduce noise pollution and improve air quality in the city—making it the world’s first city to do so. At present, there are over 16,000 e-buses on the roads. The initiative spurred the development of electric mobility. As a positive outcome of this electrification process, Shenzhen has installed more than 500 bus charging stations and 5,100 bus charging points. With a goal of aligning their vision with circular economy principles, efforts are underway to increase the provision of renewable energy sources. 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Moreover, just 100 grams of cricket protein can provide a significant portion of daily vitamin B12 intake. EntoPowder also gives an optimal ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids, a combination which the human body cannot break down on its own and has to be supplemented from diet. It is also a rich source of calcium, providing at least 1.6 times that provided by milk.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>In terms of water footprint, 1 kilogram of crickets require around 7 litres of water, as opposed to 100 litres for one egg, 3,500 litres for 1 kilogram of chicken, and 6,800 litres for 1 kilogram of beef. What’s more, a cow requires around 8 grams of food to gain one gram in weight—as opposed to insects, who need less than two. From a land-use perspective, EntoFarm employs vertical farms, requiring only one square metre of land for 100 kilograms of product, compared to 20,000 square metres of land for a comparable amount of beef.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Rapidly increasing global population and rising per capita food intake has tripled the global production of animal-based food over the last 50 years. Currently, over 900,000 square kilometres of the rainforest has been converted into animal pastures. If present population growth and meat and dairy-intensive dietary trends continue, then the food system will face massive pressures in the next few decades. The livestock sector also has a huge water footprint: an estimated 41% of total water goes toward the production of animal feed. Alongside this, the average water footprint per calorie for beef is nearly 20 times larger than cereals, for instance. Consequently, there is an urgent need to find alternatives to conventional meat products and other sustainable sources of protein.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Global Bugs aims to combat the negative environmental impacts of animal agriculture with the help of sustainable, alternative protein made from crickets.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Global Bugs aims to provide a solution for this shift with the help of sustainable, alternative protein made from crickets. Plant-based foods are naturally deficient in vitamin B12 and contain less protein than meat, which could partly explain the challenge in transitioning away from meat-based foods. Global Bugs aims to fill this gap with its EntoPowder, derived from crickets. Cricket powder is gaining traction as a sustainable source of alternative protein as it can be produced more effectively than cattle, produce fewer greenhouse gases (GHGs) and have a higher nutritional value than livestock. Regarded as a superfood, crickets provide a rich source of polyunsaturated fats, vitamins, minerals, protein, and other nutrients that raise the nutrition level in food, beverages, dietary supplements and pet food. Another advantage is that harvesting of crickets has a lower overall carbon footprint compared to plant-based products and artificial meat[1].\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Currently, around 20% of the world’s population consume insects. While Asia is the largest market for Global Bug Asia, its uptake is also becoming more common in the EU and North American markets.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>",[571,572,573],{"name":504,"type":235,"value":504},{"name":508,"type":235,"value":508},{"name":506,"type":235,"value":506},[]]