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On February 20th, 2007, tens of thousands of architects and other persons from all over the world gathered at the www.2010imperative.org website and a few hundred at the New York Academy of Sciences to participate in the Global Emergency Teach-in conducted by Architecture 2030.

On the discussion table were the alarming and ever increasing effects of climate change worldwide, the facts and videos to support it, and the speakers’ emphasis on the urgent need to make a concerted global effort amongst architects, students of architecture and all the related disciplines in order to assist in what the speakers considered to be an imminent threat to the continued survival of mankind on earth.

The facts illustrated during the global Teach-In were alarming and the presence of one Dr. James Hansen of NASA clearly drove the points home to those who attended the teach in both in the Academy of Sciences in New York and those who sat in, listened and watched on their computer screens that day. However, the speakers emphasized that it is not too late to act but that if a global effort is not put into place, many consequences can be felt possible before the year 2030. To this end, the 2010 Imperative and the 2030 Challenge were implemented as guidelines for architects and their related disciplines to follow in a concerted effort forward.

During the interactive webcast, 2030 issued The 2030 Challenge and The 2010 Imperative, specific achievable strategies to transform the built environment. These strategies are designed to immediately stabilize emissions in the Building Sector, and then reverse them to acceptable levels over the next ten years.

Shortly after the 2030 webcast and up to this day, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued three successive reports confirming the current ’state of affairs’ and resounding proof of alarming climate change and spikes in the CO2 levels taken at world wide measuring stations. The fourth assessment report issued by the IPCC reports on the “Mitigation of Climate Change” which was released on 4 May 07 in Bangkok. You can visit the IPCC website to download the webcast of the press conference and to view the SUMMARY FOR POLICYMAKERS.

To learn more, you can visit the following websites:

Architecture 2030:

2010imperative:

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): www.ipcc.ch

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