What can the surveying profession do to manage resources more carefully and to protect our natural environment for future generations?
We need to shift from a mining ideology to a kind of cultivating ideology – cultivating in the sense that we are moving towards the idea of growing our own construction materials.
Dirk Hebel
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
The built environment is responsible for up to 30% of global greenhouse emissions.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Buildings account for 60% of global electricity use and produce more than one-third of all greenhouse emissions.
Curt Garrigan
Co-ordinator, Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative, United Nations Environment Programme
By 2030, the world will require 40% more water, 50% more food, 40% more energy and 40% more timber and fibre. The only way we can meet these demands is by managing our ecosystems smartly and sustainably.
UN Environment Programme
