Green buildings and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change. Buildings are not only an inanimate structure – they embody both the physicality and the process by which they are created. Hence, green buildings present an opportunity on a greater scale to not only save resources and reduce carbon emissions but to educate, create jobs, strengthen communities, improve health and wellbeing, and much more.

Read more: https://www.worldgbc.org/green-building-sustainable-development-goals