Katie McGinty: Smart solutions to decarbonize buildings | In the Green

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翻译人员: Ziqi Wang 校对人员: Helen Chang

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Katie McGinty: We spend something like 90 percent of our whole life indoors.

凯瑟琳 麦金蒂：我们一生 90%的时间在室内度过

It's everything from your own home

从你的家中 到你工作的公司和工厂

to companies and factories.

We get married in those places, our children are born,

我们在室内结婚 我们的孩子也在室内出生

some great scientist invents a cure for disease in those buildings.

伟大的科学家 在室内发明治病的良方

But buildings are some bad news for the climate.

但建筑却无利于气候

[In the Green: The Business of Climate Action]

[绿色家园： 商业中的气候行动]

[Presented by TED Countdown and The Climate Pledge]

[由TED，COUNTDOWN THE CLIMATE PLEDGE共同呈现]

[Katie McGinty Company: Johnson Controls]

[凯瑟琳 麦金蒂 来自Johnson Controls]

[Sector: Buildings Location: USA]

领域：建筑，地点：美国

Buildings contribute about 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

建筑排放的温室气体 大约占全球总排放的40%

They represent the biggest growing piece

全球电量消耗和需求不断增长 最重要的原因在于建筑

of electricity consumption and demand in the world.

We're not cracking this climate change challenge

除非能减少建筑的碳排放 否则气候变化的危机会更严重

unless we decarbonize those buildings.

When you look at a building,

一个建筑的正常运转 有几个关键因素

there are key aspects of it that enable it to run.

It’s the heating and cooling; it’s the lighting;

制热、制冷、照明 还有所有用电设备

it's all of our appliances.

All of those things together add up to a very significant energy load

所有这些功能和设施加在一起

就会产生巨大的能源负荷和开销

and a big cost.

That's what we can go after.

我们能做出许多改变

Replace the old HVAC.

换掉老旧的暖通空调

Get rid of the old incandescent lights and add the new LEDs.

用LED灯替换白炽灯

Put in those windows that have high efficiency.

安装高效窗户

That's where digital smarts come in,

安装智能设备

where you can add sensors in a building that say,

比如在建筑中安装感应器

“Hey, nobody’s in this part of the building,

感应器可以告诉人们 “嗨！这里现在没人

so let's ratchet back that air conditioning

关上空调吧 免得它一直吹风”

that’s otherwise blasting.”

And don't worry about the upfront cost.

不必担心前期成本

Why?

为什么呢？

Because upgrading will generate savings

因为更新的环保设备可以省钱

that now can be used to finance the project in the first place.

省下来的钱首先就能用在项目上

You're cutting 20, 40, 80 percent of that energy bill.

能源上的开销 可以减少20%、40%，甚至80%

When organizations begin to look at this journey

一个组织在追求 可持续发展和零排放的过程中

toward sustainability and net-zero,

a whole lot of unexpected promise comes to the fore.

往往会收获许多意外之喜

The head of a public housing authority, for example,

曾有一个公共住房管理局的领导

just wanted to cut some costs, but get into the effort.

想更换环保的设备来减少开销

And here's what came to life.

实际产生的效果是

That the new community solar garden

社区将花园的供应能源换为太阳能

became green energy efficiency tech jobs for the local community.

这一过程为当地社区 提供了大量的科技岗位

And that translated into something else:

在这一过程中

a sense of empowerment,

社区授权、社区所有、社区参与

ownership, engagement by that community,

and effort to bring cost down

降低了能源开支，改善了社区环境

lifted the entire community up.

We're at a turning point

我们正处在一个转折点上

where piecemeal action is catalyzing whole communities

只需一些零星的环保举措

整个社区就可以 空前团结、共同行动

to take action like never before,

and they can do it on the basis of the tangible examples

而且有许多成功的例子可以借鉴

that prove the point

这些例子都证明了

that climate action is actually not only good for the environment,

气候行动不仅可以保护环境

but it cuts costs and it creates jobs at the same time.

还可以减少开销、创造就业

You know, buildings are pretty important in our lives.

众所周知 我们的生活离不开建筑

Buildings aren't just bricks and mortar.

建筑不只是砖瓦泥墙

With technology and partnership,

借助科技，多方合作 建筑也可以成为灵活的资产

we can change those buildings into flexible, agile assets,

and it is bringing us the opportunity

并且让我们可以应对 像气候变化这样的艰巨挑战

to tackle big issues like climate change.