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Europe aspires to be the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. This goal is necessary.The threat of climate change is existential. It is ambitious. Its achievement requiresoverhauling what and how we produce and consume. It is feasible if we are all fullycommitted...

Climate crisis is real. Building and Construction is responsible for the greatestamount of CO2 emissions when compared to other sectors. We live for 90% of ourtime (and more, during the pandemic lockdown) indoor. The refurbishment of thehuge European building stock is...

Countries are facing unprecedented challengesin their efforts to achieve sustainable development. The COVID-19 pandemicis threatening lives, livelihoods, and entire economies, erasing decades ofeconomic progress, poverty reduction, and gains in human development....

In 2020, a tiny virus humbled the human race and ignited a development emergency. Though its impacts were felt very differently, the COVID-19 pandemic was and continues to be a uniquely common experience for our generation, with no space for bystanders.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was launched in2015 to end poverty and set the world on a path of peace, prosperityand opportunity for all on a healthy planet. The 17 SustainableDevelopment Goals (SDGs) demand nothing short of a transformationof the...

2020 began with a bang. The pandemic caught us all off guard at the beginningof the year, turning our way of working, interacting, meeting, and living upside down.While in-person meetings, audits and trainings had been key to our work before,2020 challenged us to...