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Buildings Day Cop 21 Mobilising the building and Construction Sector for Climate Change

Ministers from Cameroon, Finland, France, Morocco, Senegal and Sweden, international organizations, multinational CEOs and civil society leaders launch the alliance to speed up and scale-up the potential of the sector for climate action . 40 days of work construction for the COP21 site Paris, 3 December 2015 - 18 countries (Austria, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Senegal, Singapore, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States of America), and over 60 organizations on Thursday launched an unprecedented Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction to speed up and scale up the sector’s huge potential to reduce its emissions and literally build greater climate resilience into future cities and infrastructure. Question to Christiana Figueres: Is the corporate world on board with COP21? The Alliance, which gathers organizations from countries to cities, NGOs, pu...