The Paris Agreement made net zero emissions a global target. In response, net zero carbon building standards have proliferated, making net zero a popular target for buildings. But to meaningfully contribute to global decarbonization efforts, net zero standards and the organizations who promote them, must be deemed legitimate. Given the building industry’s reputation for being highly fragmented and slow to change, how has this legitimacy been constructed? What are the implications of this legitimation process? This article seeks to answer these questions by exploring the narratives used by the World Green Building Council (WGBC) to legitimate Net Zero Carbon Buildings (NZCB) from 2015 to 2021. Our analysis is based on over 100 documents produced by the WGBC and 22 interviews with WGBC and Green Building Council representatives, policymakers, and industry actors. Results reveal six main storylines adopted by the WGBC to extend the legitimacy of sustainable green building movement actors to the new net zero governance space. This legitimation process allows the WGBC to develop and implement net zero standards quickly, but also creates tensions between efficiency and procedural integrity, potential and proven results, corporate and collective value. While NZCB are here to stay, these tensions highlight barriers to their wide-scale adoption and question their ability to deliver an economically viable, socially just, environmental, net zero transition.
This one-day conference, titled Canadian South Asian Youth: Gender, Identity, Sexuality, and Activism, was held at Simon Fraser University (SFU) Harbour Centre in downtown Vancouver on April 6th, 2019.
This paper describes a wise practice for collaborative change through the Trauma- Informed and Culturally Safe Emergency Care for Nuu-chah-nulth Elders project. For decades, Nuu-chah-nulth Elders have been avoiding emergency care due to colonial trauma and a lack of culturally safe care. To begin addressing this community priority, the First Nations Health Authority, in partnership with Island Health and university partners, organized a two-day workshop in September 2017 with Nuu-chah-nulth Elders, community members, and health partners. Key to ensuring the process was culturally sensitive was following the guidance of the West Coast General Hospital Cultural Safety Committee, a partnership between Nuu-chah-nulth people and health providers. Respect and trust were developed by centring the voices of Elders and giving them a safe space for discussion before developing recommendations with health partners. Feedback from participants was gathered from notes and audio recordings and thematically analyzed into eight major recommendations (i.e., increase engagement and relationship building; develop action plans; increase education and awareness; increase advocacy and support; incorporate First Nations medicine, healing, and foods; provide culturally safe spaces; develop policy and protocol; and link to comprehensive community support), with attention to preserving Elder voices. The recommendations were validated by returning and new participants at a gathering in June 2019. Elders noted that while experiences of unsafe care continue, noticeable improvements in cultural safety are being made and they feel heard.
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