All Climate crisis articles – Page 7
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InsightWe must do more to protect our world
Editor: One of my favourite spots in the city is St James’s Park.
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Markets
Electric vehicles drive sector opportunities
The increased take-up of electric vehicles will create winners and losers.
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Insight
Time to act to make homes greener
Editor: Aside from the issues of too few installers, delays in grant payments and the need for a long-term committed programme, the government must also address how it will encourage behaviour change among homeowners on energy efficiency.
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Online
Hollis appoints head of ESG consulting
Real estate consultancy Hollis has strengthened its ESG offering by appointing Katherine Beisler as head of ESG consulting.
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Online
Helical launches carbon zero strategy
Helical has launched its Designing for Net Zero guide to help the company to meet its transition to a low carbon business.
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News
From the ESL to ESG
What a week. First, former US cop Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of George Floyd, prompting an outpouring of relief over the verdict. Then, we had the outrageous, but happily short-lived, proposals for a football European Super League (ESL), spearheaded by the so-called ‘big six’ UK football ...
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News
Industry split on Covid’s climate agenda impact
Half of respondents to PW survey believe virus will accelerate action on climate
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News
Government outlines 25-year environment plan
The government this week laid out plans to transform its public estate and hit net zero by 2050.
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Insight
The PW/UKGBC Climate Crisis Perceptions Survey 2021: Results
How has Covid affected the property industry’s attitude towards climate change? Property Week reveals the findings of our second annual survey.
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Online
Government and private sector must work together to reach net zero, says minister
Government and the private real estate sector must band together to help the UK reach net zero carbon, the minister for climate change and corporate responsibility has said.
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Insight
Marketing won’t save the planet
George Orwell said: “The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” Yes, and for others to read them. Everyone in real estate treats everyone else in the game as foolish, at least when it comes to trumpeting projects.
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Insight
Why offices need to think green
As Morticia Addams, the fictional 1930s cartoon character from The New Yorker, observed: “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” You can’t self-isolate against climate change and behind the three ‘Rs’ of reflation, reopening and reoccupation, buildings are going green — fast. ...
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Insight
Government property goes green
During the past year, after all we have been through, it would perhaps have been understandable for the property industry to have taken its foot off the pedal with regard to the climate emergency and deal with ‘one crisis at a time’.
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Insight
A plastic solution to a concrete problem
Natasha Boulding and her partners at Sphera have come up with a carbon-neutral alternative to standard concrete building blocks – which also addresses the problem of plastic pollution.
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News
Convene slashes its City footprint
Flexible workspace and business centre operator Convene has slashed its footprint in half at AXA IM Alts’ 22 Bishopsgate, Property Week can reveal.
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Insight
Our industry is being set up to fail
I am a bit of an ESG Luddite. I care deeply about the future of our world but tend to glaze over when scientists produce analysis of how and when we must achieve green targets, only to be contradicted by others who tell us something very different.
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Insight
Older property also has ESG investment potential
Editor: ESG was a corporate buzzword long before Covid-19. But the possibility of translating this into a successful investment was still viewed by some with a degree of scepticism.
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Online
UKGBC sceptical about PM’S climate change target
UKGBC chief executive Julie Hirigoyen has urged the government to stop missing “open goals” when it comes to climate change.
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Online
Landlords must share risk and promote flexibility to revive high streets, says Shaftesbury boss
Landlords should take on more risk and do things differently in the wake of Covid-19 to transform “homogenised” high streets, says Shaftesbury CEO
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Online
Barker takes sustainability consulting role at JLL
JLL has appointed Andrew Barker as the new head of sustainability consulting.
