Conference

Global Sustainability Conference 2025

• 6.5 Hours Formal CPD

Online

From £130 + VAT

Don’t miss your opportunity to connect, learn, and lead the way toward a greener future.

Overview

We are delighted to announce the return of the RICS Global Sustainability Conference in 2025. This year, the conference focuses on ensuring the built and natural environment’s resilience in the face of climate challenges. This is where innovation meets responsibility – join to hear how leading surveyors, environmental planners, engineers, and policymakers are shaping landscapes that thrive in the face of change.

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 adaptability 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.

Don’t miss your opportunity to connect, learn, and lead the way toward a greener future.

Learning outcomes

Sustainable Housing in a Crisis - to explore and provide at least three approaches for delivering housing that balances speed, cost, and carbon reduction, and to explore how reframing housing as a health, equity, and climate imperative can support wider adoption of net zero imperatives.

Cross-Industry Collaboration - to enable delegates to identify cross-industry collaboration opportunities and explore tools or frameworks (e.g., BIM, LCA) that can align sustainability priorities across stakeholders.

Professional Standards & Guidance (RICS Update) - to equip delegates with insights from the latest RICS sustainability initiatives and illustrate how they can be applied to improve practice within their own organisations.

Decarbonisation, Adaptation & Resilience - to provide comparative information about three case studies (building retrofit, urban-scale adaptation, and planning-led adaptation) and identify resilience strategies applicable to attendees' own contexts.

Finance & Investment in ESG - to evaluate ESG metrics, investment criteria and financing mechanisms, (e.g., green bonds, performance-based finance), relevant to sustainable real estate.

Materials & Embodied Carbon - to explore low-carbon alternatives to traditional high-carbon materials (e.g., concrete, steel) and highlight innovations in manufacturing that reduces embodied carbon.

Technologies for Climate Risk Mapping - to examine digital tools (e.g., AI, GIS, drones) for climate risk assessment and empower delegates to evaluate their applicability to both local and large-scale contexts.

Equity in Sustainable Spaces
To locate strategies for embedding social inclusion in sustainable building design and explore methods for mitigating displacement risks linked to green development.

Speakers