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Global Sustainability Conference 2025: Key takeaways and highlights

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The conference brought together surveyors, sustainability leaders, environmental planners, engineers, investors, and policymakers to explore how innovation, responsibility, and leadership can drive meaningful climate action across the built and natural environment.

Overview

The 2025 conference provided deep insights into practical strategies for building resilience in the built and natural environment. Delegates explored innovative approaches to sustainable housing, cross-industry collaboration, and embedding social inclusion in development projects. Expert speakers shared case studies on decarbonisation, urban-scale adaptation, and planning-led resilience, highlighting methods to reduce embodied carbon, leverage technology for climate risk mapping, and integrate ESG-focused investment and finance strategies.

Attendees left with actionable knowledge to strengthen climate adaptation, improve professional practice, and design infrastructure that protects both people and ecosystems.

Key topics

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.