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    Thank you to all our customers and members for their support of the RICS World Built Environment Forum (WBEF) over the last nine years.

    The forum is being retired, but RICS continues to bring together senior business leaders, policymakers, academics to discuss urbanisation.

    For the latest thought leadership and insight from RICS click here.

    For past RICS WBEF thought leadership on urbanisation below

    Past WBEF insight

    Materials reuse must become business as usual to realise circular economy

    A recent webinar saw an expert panel discuss the strategies needed to advance the circular economy in construction, and examples of outstanding deconstruction and reuse projects.

    The UK’s whole life carbon ecosystem: a framework for decarbonising the built environment

    In a recent webinar, a panel of experts discussed four industry initiatives designed to measure, regulate, limit and track whole life carbon in the UK built environment.

    From waste to value: how circularity is reshaping real estate and construction

    What if buildings could become material banks, storing resources to be reused and repurposed for future projects? In a recent webinar with Drees & Sommer, experts explore how circularity is transforming the built environment.

    Indexing resilience can help protect buildings against climate disasters

    With the growing frequency and intensity of natural disasters, the need for building resilience is increasingly apparent. WBEF brought together experts at a recent webinar to offer insight on resilience and discuss a tool developed to increase the property market’s awareness of the concept.

    The Planet of Cities: Australia and New Zealand cities from 1980 to 2080

    Over decades, shifts in population, industry and technology have driven the transformation of cities in Australia and New Zealand. Smaller urban centres that were mainly driving their national economy evolved into increasingly important global hubs.

    How are cities accelerating progress towards a sustainable future?

    In a compelling webinar held in collaboration with Arcadis, industry leaders across Europe explored how cities can balance people, planet, profit and progress to further urban sustainability.

    The Planet of Cities: Latin American and Caribbean cities from 1980 to 2080

    From unequal, sprawling metropolises of the 1980s to today’s vibrant hubs of innovation, Latin American and Caribbean cities have transformed their challenges into opportunities for reinvention.

    The Planet of Cities: North American cities from 1980 to 2080

    Shaped by financial crises, globalisation, industrial offshoring, suburbanisation, the COVID-19 pandemic and shifting geopolitics, North America’s urban landscape tells a story of resilience, reinvention and disruption.

    Pathways to net zero for surveyors: five reasons to be cheerful

    Claire O’Neill, former UK climate change and energy minister, spoke about the role surveyors play in reaching net zero in the built and natural environment. Here, we share her opening keynote speech at the recent RICS Global Sustainability Conference 2024.

    The Planet of Cities: the journey of European cities from 1980 to 2080

    In the last 50 years, European cities have struggled to keep pace with the world’s fastest-growing urban centres, in terms of size, demographics, productivity, economic dynamism, connectivity and innovation.

    Building inclusive cities: the role of real estate

    How inclusive are today's cities? Drawing on the results of the Cushman & Wakefield Inclusive Cities Barometer, a recent webinar examined the role of that the real estate industry plays in fostering socially equitable and healthy urban environments.

    The planet of cities: peak population and urbanisation in the next 100 years

    As discussed in the first column of this series, when considering the future of cities, it is important to observe the increasing urbanisation of our people and planet.

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