Sustainable architecture efforts hindered by "sloppiness" says UN climate ambassador

Architects must take greater accountability for their sector to help decarbonise the built environment, says UN Race to Zero ambassador Sarah El Battouty in this exclusive interview from the final day of the COP27 climate conference.
"For years and years, we've had everyone create a silly building design and then stick a couple of solar panels on top and call it a green building," the Egyptian architect told Dezeen. "This kind of sloppiness was allowed all the time."
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