Karl Tomusk
Legal & General Capital has appointed the UK Green Building Council’s directory of policy and places, John Alker, as its head of sustainability.
With more than 15 years of experience in the sector, Alker joined UKGBC in 2007 and has led its policy and advocacy at both national and local level on issues ranging from net-zero carbon, social value, health and wellbeing, regeneration and placemaking.
Alker has also served as board director for the World Green Building Council and previously worked on sustainable homes and carbon trading for environmental charity WWF-UK.
A board member of the Quality of Life Foundation, Alker has worked as a researcher for the House of Commons and in commercial public affairs.
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HSBC issued the first green mortgages in the UAE, joining lenders around the world that are offering sustainable finance products to align with their environmental, social and corporate governance commitments under the Paris Agreement.
The lender approved three mortgages for customers purchasing homes in The Sustainable City community in Dubai, the bank said in a statement on Sunday. The green home loans will be available for properties across the UAE if they meet sustainability criteria, the bank added.
The green home loans offer an interest rate discount of 0.25 per cent for properties that meet certain sustainable criteria and a 50 per cent reduction in bank processing fees, the lender said.
Green Building: Summit leads shift to a healthier, greener New Zealand
5 May, 2021 05:00 PM
3 minutes to read
NZ Herald
The Green Building sector says it has the solutions, the opportunity and the momentum to play a lead role in the shift to a healthier, greener New Zealand.
The building and construction sector comes together today at the Aotea Centre in Auckland for the Green Property Summit: Better buildings, together focused on reducing carbon emissions. Now it is time for our sector to play a leading role in driving a greener, healthier, zero carbon Aotearoa, for the benefit of all New Zealanders, say summit co-leads, Leonie Freeman (CEO, Property Council NZ) and Andrew Eagles (CEO, NZ Green Building Council).
Green Building: The NZGBC s hope - Zero carbon buildings by 2030
5 May, 2021 10:26 PM
11 minutes to read
The new $300 million hospital building in New Plymouth is likely have a 5 Green Star rating when it is completed in 2023.
The new $300 million hospital building in New Plymouth is likely have a 5 Green Star rating when it is completed in 2023.
NZ Herald
By: Graham Skellern
The NZ Green Building Council, a strong lobby group created by the construction and property industry, is hoping that by 2030 the New Zealand Building Code will be updated to ensure all new buildings are zero carbon. That s our target and it would mean we won t need Green Star rating because zero carbon buildings and homes will be normal business, says the council s chief executive, Andrew Eagles. We can then switch our focus and concentrate on existing buildings and get a mandatory carbon disclosure programme established and operating.
30 April 2021
Stephen Cousins
From AI-powered solar concentrators and hydrogen/plasma kilns to CO2 storage reservoirs, heavy industries are scaling up their efforts to slash emissions from energy intensive construction materials
Heliogen concentrates solar energy onto a target to generate temperatures of up to 1,500oC, enough to power heavy industry. Credit: HelioGEN
The government’s repeated refusal to block a planning application for a new coal mine in West Cumbria was condemned by many environmentalists and climate scientists as hypocritical given its previous commitment to create a green, industrial revolution and rapidly cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Support for the facility, which is intended to produce coking coal for use in steel production, seems unthinkable in the midst of a climate emergency (it has now finally been called for a planning inquiry), but is perhaps indicative of the difficulties associated with decarbonising heavy industrial processes.