Two of architecture’s biggest names just pulled out of an ambitious climate pledge

By Nate Berg : fastcompany – excerpt

In as many days, two of the world’s most well-known architecture firms have shocked the field and removed their names from a pledge aiming to reduce architecture’s contribution to climate change and biodiversity loss. First Foster + Partners and then a day later Zaha Hadid Architects withdrew from Architects Declare, a pledge launched by architects in the U.K. in 2019 that commits to reducing the architecture and construction industry’s nearly 40% contribution to global carbon emissions…(more)

At last we have an admission that the ordinary citizens going about their lives are not the primary producers of GHG. Read the article for a list of the primary contributors.