COP29 Buildings and Cooling Pavilion

The Sufficiency Revolution: Ensuring a Just Transition through Indigenous Wisdom, Resilience and Human Rights

Event description

The event focuses on finding nuanced, context-specific solutions to the complex challenges facing the global built environment, such as climate change, social inequality, and economic pressures. It aims to address the overuse of resources in construction, the human rights implications of decarbonization, and the vulnerability of urban areas and cultural heritage to climate risks.

Central to these solutions is the integration of indigenous knowledge, emphasizing its value in creating resilient, low-impact, and community-driven approaches. The event also promotes the concept of sufficiency—using just enough resources to meet needs sustainably—and highlights human rights as a guiding principle in designing equitable and inclusive spaces. By fostering collaboration among experts, policymakers, and local communities, the event will deliver tailored strategies for climate-resilient urban development, innovative policy recommendations, and a catalogue of tools that reflect a commitment to sustainability, sufficiency, and social justice, ensuring that climate adaptation efforts uplift vulnerable communities while protecting the environment.