All Climate crisis articles – Page 28
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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.
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Nature takes centre stage in climate conversations – Property Week and UKGBC’s COP round-up: Day 6
For UKGBC, the key announcements from COP26 today were:
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Green Finance Commitments are Scaled Up - Property Week and UKGBC’s COP Round Up: Day 3
For UKGBC, the key announcements from COP26 today.
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The green dilapidations process
COP26 is another reminder of the need to consider all opportunities for reducing emissions and waste as part of our industry’s daily practice. Often, that means revising the basic assumptions of our work. Dilapidations is a process that seems inherently wasteful. But is there a way around that? Yes.
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We must make sensible changes
The media have been gorging themselves on COP26 all this week despite the obvious, which is that as ever with conferences of this kind, there will be lots of hot air and promises and very little action will follow.
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Disability Strategy slammed for lack of tangible change
Campaigners cite a lack of guidance and an absence of real progress in provision of accessible housing.
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UKGBC puts ‘boots on the ground’ in Scotland
Climate charity sets up Scottish body and calls on UK government to catch up.
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Climate is REITs’ biggest challenge
George Bernard Shaw said “beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance”, and the real estate industry is having to gen up on climate change fast.
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How are capital markets shifting? Where is the money going? Where are governments and Investors investing? Where do we need it to be going?
Blackstock Consulting director Tom Roberts sat down with Jessica Tomlinson, Rob Martin and Maya Faerch to discuss how capital markets are rising to meet the challenge of climate change and whether all finance will be ‘green finance’ in the future.
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UK firms to prove net zero targets
The Treasury is set to propose new rules for most big firms to show how they will achieve climate-change targets.
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Homes England partners with Etopia Group
Homes England has announced a partnership with housebuilder Etopia Group, which will start with the delivery of 30 zero-carbon homes in Wilburton, East Cambridgeshire.
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Survey finds COP26 will increase property’s ESG focus
COP26 will be a catalyst for an even greater focus on ESG across commercial property lifecycles, according to a survey of UK institutional real estate investors and property professionals.
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Countryside sets net zero ambition for 2030
Developer Countryside has launched its net zero strategy and targets to support the decarbonisation of operations by 2030, Property Week can reveal.
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Redrow signs up to SBTi climate initiative
Redrow has signed up to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)’s highest ‘business ambition’ of pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C, and will establish interim science-based targets across scopes one, two and three in line with SBTi criteria and recommendations in 2022.
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Landlords and tenants need to be proactive in environmental monitoring
The notion of environmental monitoring has been on the backburner for some time now. For years, it has merely existed as a checklist activity to tick off without much thought. Businesses have traditionally treated it as a gimmick, with no real knowledge of what to do with the data once ...
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CPP Investments appoints first chief sustainability officer
Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investments has appointed Deborah Orida as the organisation’s first chief sustainability officer (CSO).
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Nordic real estate giant NREP makes carbon neutrality pledge
Nordic real estate company NREP has committed to being carbon neutral by 2028 “without offsets”.
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Housing committee report blasts government for lack of commitment to climate action
The government’s Net Zero Strategy contains “no clear commitment” to increasing funding for local authorities to tackle the climate crisis, the housing committee has warned.
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The funding options for green developments
It will not have escaped the sector’s attention that this year’s UN Climate Conference, COP26, is the first to dedicate a day to the built environment. Addressing how developers can tackle a net zero emission future is sure to be a central part of this.
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Whole-life carbon needs regulation
Editor: I read with interest and some frustration your articles last week on the complete absence of discussion on embodied carbon in the government’s new Heat & Buildings Strategy, and just a fleeting mention in its Net Zero Strategy.