Rapid climate change is demanding innovative and sustainable ways of doing and accomplishing the things we do on a daily basis. Recycling rather than disposing, opting for energy efficiency, refusing to endorse unsustainable practices, and so much more. Implementing sustainable infrastructue into this everygrowing list of eco-friendly initiatives is essential for tomorrow’s world.
Sustainable infrastcuture restores, preserves and integrates the natural enviornment, inlcluding biodiversity and ecosystems, by supporting the sustainable and efficient use of natural resources, including energy, water, and materials.
It also limits all types of pollution over the life cycle of the project and contributes to a low - carbon, resilient , and resource - efficient economy. Sustainable infrastructure projects are ( or should be) sited and designed to ensure resilienc e to climate and natural disaster risks.
Infrastructure that is built now will determine ou r climate future . It is estimated that g lobally, 60% of carbon emissions arise from the construction and operation of the existing infrastructure stock and a further 35 – 60% of the future carbon budget will be taken up by infrastructure.
infrastructure is the backbone of development and as such, we must look forward with new and sustainable methods in order to ensure progress does not suffer for the sake of sustainability. Environmentalism is no longer a choice. It is an essential element to everything we do as people and we have a responsibility to ourselves and to our planet to take care of it.