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From YouTube: COP 26 Observations
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COP 26 Observations by Julie Hiromoto
A
A
A
B
B
Can
everybody
see
and
hear
okay
great,
get
some
thumbs
ups,
so
I
was
invited
to
cop
as
a
official
ngo
observer,
a
non-governmental
organizational
observer
through
the
american
institute
of
architects,
which
is
one
of
the
largest
design
organizations
in
the
world.
We've
got
94
000
members,
and
so
I
was
there
representing
my
company
in
the
american
institute
of
architects
and,
as
you
know,
cop
is
a
un
hosted
organization
and
I'll
get
into
the
details
and
some
of
the
acronyms
in
a
minute.
B
But
there
was
a
lot
of
social
media
coverage,
and
so,
if
you
haven't
seen
it
yet,
there
are
lots
of
great
photos,
especially
on
these
instagram
and
flickr
accounts
that
really
help
you
get
a
feeling
for
what
it
was
like
to
be
there.
So
there
are
a
couple
things
I
want
to
share
with
you
today.
What
is
top?
Why
do
architects
care?
Why
did
I
go
the
crazy
complexity,
intensity
of
what
was
happening
there
and
then
who?
What
will
you?
What
will
you
do
next?
B
At
that
time,
almost
200
countries
got
together
and
said
we
need
to
do
something
and
the
countries
are
called
parties.
So
cop
26
stands
for
the
conference
of
parties
and
the
parties
are
the
countries,
so
they've
got
this
their
own.
You
know
special
language
here
and
the
unfccc
is
the
host
of
all
of
the
cops,
the
un
framework
conference
on
climate
change
and
they
meet
annually,
but
every
five
years
is
kind
of
a
monumental
cop.
B
So
there
was
the
first
ever
buildings
day
and
if
you
haven't
heard
this
yet
our
built
environment
and
our
buildings
are
responsible
for
40
percent
of
our
global
carbon
emissions.
That's
a
lot
of
carbon!
So
there's
a
huge
leadership
opportunity
here,
while
we're
working
on
industry
while
we're
working
on
transportation,
we
need
to
be
working
on
buildings
too,
and
so
at
cop.
The
paris
agreement
set
out
these
financial
technical
and
capacity
building
commitments
from
each
of
the
countries
called
ndc's,
nationally
determined
contributions.
B
So
each
country
decides
what
they're
gonna
do
and
they
they
make
it
up
all
on
their
own
and
then
there's
an
expectation
that
every
five
years
they
have
to
ratchet
up
their
goals.
So
the
scientists
were
telling
us
that
the
agreements
made
in
paris
in
2015
got
us
to
within
four
degrees
of
global
warming,
and
the
scientists
are
also
telling
us
the
tipping
point.
The
point
of
no
return
is
1.5
degrees.
B
So
how
do
we
ratchet
up
our
goals
and
pull
down
our
carbon
projections
so
that
we
stay
below
1.5,
because
four
is
not
enough
now
you're
going
to
hear
all
kinds
of
things
or
you
have
been
hearing
all
kinds
of
things
in
the
media.
Cop
was
a
failure.
The
politicians
just
get
together
and
blah
blah
blah.
B
Did
we
do
enough
at
cop26?
No,
are
we
in
much
better
shape
than
we
were
last
month?
Yes,
so
my
personal
takeaway
is
that
this
is
really
hard
and
I'm
not
making
excuses
for
anybody,
but
we
all
need
to
work
harder
together
and
to
constantly
just
throw
stones
in
a
kind
of
unproductive
way
is
not
a
part
of
the
solution.
B
So
how
can
we
all
of
us
be
a
productive
part
of
the
solution,
so
we
can
all
move
forward
for
everybody,
so
just
a
real,
quick
kind
of
overview
of
the
american
institute
of
architects.
We,
our
vision
statement
is
climate
action
for
equity
and
human
health.
You
might
wonder
why
health
well,
the
built
environment,
is
far
more
responsible
for
human
health
outcomes
than
your
healthcare
clinicians.
B
So
before
you
go
to
your
doctor
with
a
disease
or
a
problem
every
day,
you're
spending
90
of
your
time
in
buildings
every
day,
you're,
hopefully
walking
and
not
driving
around
the
city
or
spending
time
in
beautifully
designed
outdoor
public
spaces
or
well-designed
high-functioning
buildings,
and
so
our
built
environment
is
a
critical
part
of
our
health.
It's
a
critical
part
of
our
climate
solution
and
it's
also
a
critical
part
of
an
equitable
solution
where
we
design
for
justice-
and
we
all
get
to
where
we
want
to
go
together,
not
leaving
anybody
behind.
B
We
have
a
our
first
ever
climate
action
plan
authored
in
2020.
We
actually
reviewed
all
of
the
policy
platforms
of
all
the
presidential
candidates
and
showed
where
it
aligned
with
aia
policy
priorities,
including
affordable
housing,
k-12
environments
for
education
and,
of
course,
climate
action,
and
our
strategic
plan
is
really
centered
around.
B
How
can
we
broaden
the
tent
and
bring
in
more
voices
and
more
diversity
of
perspectives,
because
we
know
that
this
is
a
whole
systems
challenge
and
just
one
specialty
expertise
or
one
person
or
one
practice
area
or
one
region
is
not
going
to
be
able
to
solve
it
on
its
own.
So
we
need
to
get
much
more
creative
about
how
we
do
that.
B
So
why
did
we
go?
We
want
to
make
sure
we're
advancing
that
the
institute's
policy
objectives
we
want
to
signal
to
our
governments
and
to
business
that
this
is
important
and
that
it's
urgently
needed
for
us
to
collectively
ramp
up
our
nbc's,
and
we
want
to
build
the
right
kinds
of
partnerships
again,
because
not
one
discipline
or
or
profession
can
get
us
there
alone
and
really
showcase
architects
relevancy
in
in
what
we
had
to
bring
in
climate
action.
B
So
glasgow
is
a
pretty
compact
city.
It
really
only
took
about
30
minutes
to
walk
from
my
hotel,
which
was
here
to
the
blue
zone,
which
was
here
and,
as
you
can
see,
glasgow
is
also
quite
a
green
city,
so
really
within
the
core.
There's
a
lot
of
hard
surfaces,
but
just
outside
they're.
All
of
these
amazing
green
spaces,
and
it's
it's
a
really
lovely
city
and
it
has
a
real
industrial
roots
and
it's
gone
through
through
a
lot
of
ups
and
downs.
B
So
the
you
know,
you're
can't
speak
the
new
york
times
had
a
on-site
and
virtual
hybrid
two-week
session,
mirroring
the
two
weeks
of
cop,
so
they
were
right
there.
The
sustainable
innovation
forum
was
a
connect.
A
collection
of
businesses
and
other
advocacy
groups
that
were
hosting
their
own
kind
of
mini
conference.
B
There
were
lots
of
things
going
on
at
the
glasgow
cathedral
and
the
many
universities
on
site.
This
is
the
main
train
station.
This
is
where
we
took
the
train
in
from
london.
There
were
events
going
on
here,
including
bloomberg.
Green
was
hosting
a
lot
of
events
here
and
then
the
local
train
hub
to
get
to
edinboro
a
lot
of
glasgow
is
not
a
very
large
city,
and
so
there
wasn't
enough
housing
in
hotels
for
everybody
to
stay
in
glasgow.
B
So
actually
most
of
the
us
delegation
stayed
in
edinburgh,
which
was
a
45-minute
train
ride
away.
So
you
just
have
all
these
people
kind
of
moving
around
the
city
and
of
course
there
were
lots
of
protests
going
on
everywhere
too,
and
there
were
a
number
of
disparate
sites
where
climate
reality
was
hosting.
Events
too,
so
roger
was
very
kind
in
helping
me
connect
with
the
climate
reality
group
because
it
certainly
was
not
transparent.
B
It
was
pretty
opaque
to
find
out
what
was
going
on
and
what
was
planned,
but
this
is
the
first
week
of
a
two-week
schedule
and
you'll
see
here
that
al
gore
had
an
opportunity
to
speak
inside
the
green
zone
and
deliver
his
typical
climate
reality
speech
and
in
typical
al
gore
fashion.
His
enthusiasm
and
his
energy
did
not
wane
at
all
for
90
minutes
of
those.
You
know
shockingly
devastating
images
and
the
urgency
to
act
and
the
solutions
that
we're
coming
up
with.
B
B
So
we're
living
in
covid
times
and
the
conference
certainly
wasn't
simplified
by
the
desire
to
try
to
keep
everybody
safe.
So
in
order
to
enter
the
gree,
the
blue
zone
and
also
some
of
the
other
events.
So
I
know
the
sustainability
sustainable
innovation
forum
was
also
requiring
it,
and
so
was
the
green
zone.
You
had
to
take
a
daily
antigen,
lateral
flow
test.
B
So
every
day
I
stuck
a
q-tip
up
my
nose
and
did
this
self-administered
test
and
then
reported
it
on
a
website
to
the
scotland,
national
health
services
group,
and
then
you
would
get
this
notification
and
you
have
to
show
this
proof
of
negative
covid
tests
every
day
before
you're
able
to
enter
the
zones
and
some
of
the
you
know
this
is
the
un.
So
there
was
you
know:
airport
plus,
tsa
ratcheted
up
level
screening
at
every.
B
B
When
you
have
things
like
this,
so
it
was
a
very
interesting
kind
of
playing
out
in
micro
scale
of
the
macro
system-wide
issues
that
said
we're
facing,
and
just
to
give
you
an
idea
of
the
complexity
of
just
within
the
blue
zone.
There
was
the
official
cop
presidency
program
that
al
gore
was
a
part
of
there
were
the
negotiations,
which
happened.
You
know
with
all
the
parties.
B
There
was
the
action
hub
where
all
these
people
were
working
and
meeting
each
other
and
building
relationships.
That's
the
cop
president
right
there.
He
actually
hosted
an
open
mic
where
people
could
come
and
share
their
grievances
or
make
suggestions,
and
let
him
know
directly
how
people
were
experiencing
cop.
B
There
was
a
whole
series
of
side
events.
I
went
to
an
amazing
one
on
affordable
housing
and
how
to
make
that
and
the
progress
that
glasgow
and
scotland
have
made
on
climate
neutral,
affordable
housing
and
decarbonizing
housing
stock,
and
they
were
in
you
know,
large
lecture
halls
and
a
number
of
virtual
events,
and
then
there
was
the
equivalent
of
an
expo
hall
where
all
of
these
different
nations
and
special
interest
groups
had
pavilions
and
each
one
of
those
was
hosting
their
own
independence
program.
B
B
There
were
a
lot
of
pavilions
that
had
blocked
in
spaces,
and
only
the
speakers
could
go
in
that
secure
zone
and
part
of
it,
I
think,
was
for
acoustics
because
they
were
filming
and
broadcasting
a
lot
of
these,
but
part
of
it
also
was
for
covet
isolation.
I'm
happy
to
say
that
the
us,
oh
did.
I
skip
one.
No,
that's
next!
Okay!
Well,
let
me
come
back
to
that
one
now,
I'm
happy
to
say
that
the
u.s
pavilions
and
the
action
center
were
not
like
that.
They
were
completely
open.
B
B
There
were,
and
so
that's
the
national
level,
then
they
have
a
whole
nother
tier
that
the
the
cop
lingo
is
sub-national.
So
those
are
all
the
governors,
the
mayors,
the
city
councillors,
the
people
who
are
really
influencing
change
where
the
rubber
hits
the
road,
and
so
I
had
saw
an
amazing
panel
with
a
city
councillor
from
maui
county
and
the
amazing
work
that
they're
doing
there
and
other
governors.
B
So
just
all
kinds
of
really
great
content
to
kind
of
soak
in
activism
was
everywhere
in
the
streets
and
inside
the
blue
zone
and
art
was
everywhere
too.
This
one
on
the
right
was
my
favorite
painting
that
I
saw,
but
you
know
contemporary
art,
fine
art
performance,
art
it.
It
was
all
all
there
and
then
lots
of
official
programming
and
side
events.
So
this
was
the
on
the
left.
The
sustainability,
innovation
forum
and
bmw
is
showing
their
new
concept
car
new
electric
concept
car.
B
B
So
in
just
the
last
few
minutes,
I
want
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
footprint
versus
hand
print
and
what
our
opportunities
are.
These
are
the
things
that
I
live
by
and
what
I
try
to
do
to
put
my
values
and
my
principles
and
wear
them
on
my
sleeve,
and
you
know
have
that
as
a
part
of
my
my
con,
my
personal
contribution
and
my
day-to-day
kind
of
living.
B
So
what
is
the
bigger
opportunity
for
all
of
us,
and
I
think
climate
reality
is
a
great
kind
of
advocate
to
help
us
find
that
path
and
that's
your
handprint,
so
the
the
ripple
effect
of
your
influence.
So
in
my
job
I've
already
outlined,
you
know
that
there's
a
lot
of
opportunity
for
architects
and
buildings.
B
So
I'll
leave
it
at
that.
I
think
that
you
know
the
biggest
message
for
me
and
the
takeaway
from
cop
was
that,
of
course,
climate
doesn't
ex,
doesn't
respect
any
geopolitical
boundaries
and
they
really
don't
care.
It
doesn't
care
what
you
look
like
or
how
much
money
you
have
or
how
old
you
are.
You
know
it's
going
to
impact
us
all
and
and
some
of
us
much
more
than
others,
but
even
the
first
wave,
the
second
and
the
third
wave.
B
You
know
we
we
get
comfortable
and
feel
like
we're
insulated
from
these
things,
but
we
haven't
even
conceived
of
all
the
system-wide
effects
of
how
this
is
going
to
amplify
and
disrupt
our
lives
and
civilization,
as
we
know
it.
So
I
I
was
most
encouraged
that
there
were
so
many
different
indigenous
communities
there.