All Climate crisis articles – Page 27
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Insight
ESG is vital for industrial tenants
It’s no secret that the logistics market is booming. Supply was already struggling to keep up with demand before the pandemic. The acceleration of trends like the move to online retail and the need for bolstering supply chains during the pandemic has led to an even greater appetite for quality ...
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Time to build up flood defences
Heatwaves, flooding, wildfires and storms are increasingly becoming the norm in the UK and this trend is set to continue with the impact of climate change. Extreme weather events can cause significant damage to properties if the right defences are not in place.
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News
End justifies the means, says Insulate Britain spokesperson
Tim Gough sees all publicity as good publicity in its campaign to persuade government to fund home insulation.
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High time to update Red Book
The need for real estate to provide a positive social and environmental impact has never been so pressing: according to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, buildings account for up to 40% of energy use in most countries.
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Green leases are a crucial next step to reaching net zero
COP26 has brought into sharp focus the gap between promises to limit environmental damage and real action. As individuals, we want to do what is right; as businesses, demonstrating green credentials is becoming increasingly important to customers and employees alike.
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Postcard from COP26
The Caledonian Sleeper train service has been saved from the axe a couple of times. If ever its time has come then it is surely during COP26. There was a sense of excitement about boarding an overnight train to Scotland with a bar and restaurant. It wasn’t quite Agatha Christie ...
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Online
Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap for the UK Built Environment: Property Week and UKGBC’s COP Round Up: Day 12
UKGBC has launched a Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap for the UK Built Environment (the Roadmap) that provides a shared vision and set of actions for achieving a net zero UK built environment by 2050.
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Online
Wellbeing resorts group unveils vertical farms partnership
Therme Group, a developer and operator of water-based wellbeing resorts, plans to roll out vertical farms at all its resorts worldwide as a result of a partnership with agritech specialist IGS (Intelligent Growth Solutions) announced at COP26,
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News
LGIM rolls out digital platform to help tenants hit net zero targets
LGIM Real Assets has launched a digital tenant engagement platform across its 20m sq ft portfolio to help its occupiers realise their net zero carbon ambitions.
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Shaftesbury sets out net zero pledge
West End property owner Shaftesbury has revealed plans to be a net zero business by 2030, as well as carbon neutral for its own corporate emissions five years earlier.
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Kings Cross Estate becomes carbon neutral
The King’s Cross Estate has become carbon neutral by developing carbon offsetting forests and renewable energy supplies, its owner has confirmed.
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Videos
What does it mean to deliver ‘social value’ – and how do we unlock it across the built environment?
Three experts in design and sustainability tackle these questions on the seventh episode of Property Week’s Climate Crisis Challenge Podcast series with Hawkins Brown, one of the campaign’s supporting partners.
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Partnership is key to net zero goal
As COP26 comes to a close, one thing is clear: extremely challenging net zero targets will only be achieved by bold partnerships, whether that is between national governments or private sector organisations.
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News
Green Finance Roadmap not feasible, top investors warn
Leading real estate investors argue that SMEs will find it difficult to comply with the government guidance.
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News
UKGBC launches roadmap to guide industry to zero emissions
UKGBC is calling for a “fundamental shift” in the real estate industry to enable it to hit the UK’s target of net zero emissions by 2050.
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Professional
Energy efficiency is a win-win
Global climate alignment has been under the microscope in Glasgow and one thing is becoming apparent: the commercial property sector faces change.
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A property COP-out?
Despite the built environment accounting for 40% of the UK’s carbon footprint, talk about property at COP26 was strangely muted. Property Week’s Mitchel Labiak went to Glasgow to find out why.
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Markets
Bradford aims high with new eco site
City sets out to lead clean energy revolution with UK’s first clean growth test bed.
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Professional
What can be done to move the sustainability agenda forward?
DLA Piper has recently set science-based targets to halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
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Online
Podcast: The Office Group’s boss hails London’s first timber office building in centuries as landlords respond to climate crisis
Charlie Green, co-founder of The Office Group sat down with Blackstock Consulting’s Andrew Teacher in the latest episode of our BossCast series to discuss the future of the work, why sustainability is at the core of its strategy and why he wants to be everyone’s flexible friend.