Nikola and Chanel attended the Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB58) for ClimaTalk, and in collaboration with the Youth Negotiators Academy, in June 2023. Now they are sharing some personal reflections from the conference.
Improving the operational carbon footprint of buildings by, for example, insulation and electrifying the grid, is one solution. A second solution is to reduce the embodied carbon of constructing a building. Finally, policies and incentives such as creating a lead market need to be put in place to support low-carbon products which contribute to creating lower-carbon buildings.