Built Environment Summit News Today

The UK's net-zero strategy is as unrealistic as "magic beans fertilised by unicorn's blood", according to Cambridge University's Julian Allwood.

Speakers at RIBA's Built Environment Summit have called on architects to decarbonise their buildings instead of blaming clients and the lack of regulations.

The authors of a climate report showing how construction can reduce its carbon emissions have urged the sector to endorse their findings ahead of COP26.

The report, Built for the Environment, sets out to explain how the sector can tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis. It argues that the sector

The report, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the starkest it has ever published, warns that climate change is already upon us

Seize the momentum of COP26 to make architects’ voices heard COP26’s potential as a global event offers an opportunity to accelerate a change for more sustainable building, says Hattie Hartman COP26 did not take place in 2020, and it may not take place in 2021. Yet, as the scheduled November date of the international climate conference in Glasgow approaches, the race to net zero is on. And the term ‘accelerator’, borrowed from start-up lingo, is percolating into the climate sphere. An ...