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

Transcriber:

譯者: Jennifer Yu 審譯者: Helen Chang

Director: Sound rolling.

導演：開始錄音。

Take one, mark.

第一次拍攝，馬克。

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

凱瑟琳·麥金蒂：我們整個人生中 約有90%的時間在室內，

It's everything from your own home

室內指的是從你家到 公司及工廠的一切範圍。

to companies and factories.

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

我們在那些地方 結婚、小孩出生，

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

有些偉大的科學家在那些建築物裡 發明了一種疾病治療方法。

But buildings are some bad news for the climate.

但建築物對氣候卻是個壞消息。

[In the Green: The Business of Climate Action]

[綠色商機：氣候行動企業]

[Presented by TED Countdown and The Climate Pledge]

［由 TED 倒數計時／氣候誓言提出］

[Katie McGinty Company: Johnson Controls]

［凱瑟琳·麥金蒂 公司：江森自控］

[Sector: Buildings Location: USA]

［部門：建築物 位置：美國］

Buildings contribute about 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

建築物貢獻了約 40% 的 全球溫室氣體排放量。

They represent the biggest growing piece

建築物代表世界電力消耗 和需求最大增長部分。

of electricity consumption and demand in the world.

We're not cracking this climate change challenge

我們沒有破解 這個氣候變遷挑戰，

unless we decarbonize those buildings.

除非我們對這些建築物 進行脫碳。

When you look at a building,

當你檢視一棟建築物時，

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

有幾個關鍵特徵能使房子運轉。

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

像是暖氣和冷氣，像是照明，

it's all of our appliances.

像是我們所有的電器。

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

所有那些加總起來 是很大的能源負荷

and a big cost.

及一筆大費用。

That's what we can go after.

那就是我們可以努力的。

Replace the old HVAC.

更換舊的暖通空調。

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

換掉舊的白熾燈， 並添加新的 LED燈。

Put in those windows that have high efficiency.

加裝高效能窗戶。

That's where digital smarts come in,

那就是數位智能的用武之地，

where you can add sensors in a building that say,

可以在建築物中加裝感應器，說：

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

「嘿，沒人在建築物的這個區域，

so let's ratchet back that air conditioning

讓我們轉低空調，

that’s otherwise blasting.”

用不著猛吹。」

And don't worry about the upfront cost.

而且不用擔心前期成本。

Why?

為什麼？

Because upgrading will generate savings

因為升級(設備)將省下很多錢，

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

省下的錢可以用在 計畫初期所需資金。

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

你減少了20%、40%、 80% 的能源帳單。

When organizations begin to look at this journey

一旦組織開始檢視通往 永續和淨零的歷程，

toward sustainability and net-zero,

a whole lot of unexpected promise comes to the fore.

就會出現很多意想不到的應許。

The head of a public housing authority, for example,

例如，主管公營住宅的機關

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

只是要降低成本， 但投入了努力，

And here's what came to life.

結果帶來了：

That the new community solar garden

新社區的太陽能花園

became green energy efficiency tech jobs for the local community.

成為當地社區的 綠色節能科技工作。

And that translated into something else:

而那也轉換成別的東西：

a sense of empowerment,

該社區的活力感、 所有權及參與感，

ownership, engagement by that community,

and effort to bring cost down

而降低成本的努力

lifted the entire community up.

提升整個社區。

We're at a turning point

我們正在轉捩點上，

where piecemeal action is catalyzing whole communities

一步步的行動正在 催化整個社區，

to take action like never before,

採取前所未有的行動，

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

可以在實例基礎上證明

that prove the point

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

氣候行動事實上不僅對環境好，

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

也降低成本，同時也創造了工作。

You know, buildings are pretty important in our lives.

你知道的，建築物 在我們生活中非常重要。

Buildings aren't just bricks and mortar.

建築物不只是磚塊和灰泥。

With technology and partnership,

藉由科技和合作，

we can change those buildings into flexible, agile assets,

我們可以把那些建築物 變成彈性、靈活的資產，

and it is bringing us the opportunity

這能為我們帶來機會，

to tackle big issues like climate change.

以解決像氣候變化等重大議題。