Global Sustainability Conference 2026
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From £135 + VAT
Overview
We are delighted to announce the return of the RICS Global Sustainability Conference in 2026. With a focus on biodiversity, this year’s conference brings together professionals from across the built and natural environment sectors for a full day of insight, collaboration, and practical learning on how nature-positive sustainability practices can be embedded across the property lifecycle.
The event will bring together leading minds in climate adaptation, natural hazard planning, and ecological stewardship. As our planet experiences climate shifts, the role of surveyors in ensuring the nature-positive impacts of their projects has never been more vital. Through new technologies, data-driven planning, and strategies for cross-industry collaboration, we can design and maintain infrastructure that protects both people and ecosystems.
Learning outcomes
Participants will identify how biodiversity can be embedded in project lifecycles, from site selection and master planning through to delivery and long-term asset management.
Participants will understand the credibility, limitations and governance requirements of multiple emerging digital solutions. Delegates will gain insight into how collaboration between technology providers, developers and investors enables scalable, transparent biodiversity outcomes.
Participants will recognise how delivering nature-positive outcomes requires collaboration across valuation, land management, construction, investment and policy disciplines.
They will understand how RICS standards and competencies are evolving to embed biodiversity into everyday professional practice. Attendees will leave with a clearer mandate for leadership, accountability and measurable action within their organisations.
They will understand how RICS standards and competencies are evolving to embed biodiversity into everyday professional practice. Attendees will leave with a clearer mandate for leadership, accountability and measurable action within their organisations.
Participants will engage with real-world case studies, implementation tools and step-by-step frameworks that demonstrate how nature-positive commitments can be operationalised within their own organisations. Delegates will leave with a clear set of practical takeaways and immediate next steps to embed nature-positive principles into day-to-day professional practice.
Event programme
Published date: 14 October 2026
Speakers
Alexandra Faciu, MA, MRICS.
President, Alexandra Capital and Founder, SAM Curated
Alexandra Faciu is President of Alexandra Capital and the Founder of SAM Curated. With more than 25 years of experience across senior advisory and principal roles, Alexandra has particular depth in transformations, asset turnarounds and portfolio workouts; in transaction advisory and the transition to asset management after acquisition; and in sustainability, climate risk and adaptability, considered across all initiatives and implemented where they create clear value. She partners with institutions and investment managers, family offices, and corporate users seeking to unlock the value of their real estate holdings. What sets her practice apart is a proactive commitment to research, innovation and emerging technology to support her clients’ portfolios and platforms. Her areas of focus are best practices for asset and portfolio management, valuation and sustainability. Last year, Alexandra co-authored a research study on the "Impact of Climate Risks and Sustainability Factors on Commercial Real Estate Values". This subject is of particular importance to her, as she believes it is crucial in making the business case for decarbonizing the built environment. She also contributes to task forces, most recently the OECD Task Force on Sustainable Real Estate Investment, supporting the development of the policy paper Future Proofing Real Estate Investment. Alexandra is a professional member of the RICS, where she sits on its Governing Council, following several years on its Americas World Regional Board. She is a frequent speaker at conferences, including the Canada Green Building Council's 2026 Building Lasting Change conference, the Appraisal Institute of Canada's 2025 National Conference and many RICS events, on subjects including sustainable investing, asset management, valuation and next gen. She also gives lectures and workshops on the same subjects.
Francesca Fowler-Walsh MRICS
Associate, Natural Capital, Savills and RICS Matrics Board Member
Lisa Lamb
Head of Planning and Major Infrastructure & The Planner RTPI Woman , National Trust and The Planner RTPI Woman on Influence 2025
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