Natural Environment

Enabling a low carbon materials economy

How can policy, industry and education foster a low carbon materials future? Professor Robert Hairstans, Founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Timber Technology, explores how construction materials, practices and design will have to change to realise a low carbon materials economy, while meet

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From pledges to action: Activating your net zero roadmap

Most global GDP is covered by some form of net zero pledge – so what practical measures can companies take to convert these pledges into action?

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RICS Sustainability Report 2023: Global challenges and opportunities for real estate & construction

Following the release of the RICS Sustainability Report 2023, a recent webinar saw a panel of experts discuss how well sustainability is being implemented. Here are some of their thoughts.

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Why air quality is about more than just cutting carbon

Cutting carbon will improve health, but when it comes to poor air quality, other pollutants are also responsible. How do they contribute to respiratory and heart conditions in towns & cities, how are they generated, and what action is being taken to cut them out? We share the findings from a webinar

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RICS Sustainability Report 2022: Are we making progress?

What does the built environment need to make progress towards decarbonisation? Here are five things we learned in our webinar.

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Net zero: Navigating the built environment’s route to COP28

As the built environment presses forward into a new year, Kisa Zehra, Sustainability Analyst at RICS, examines the mechanisms for industry to produce more sustainable practices in 2023.

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Agricultural transformation: Can agritech solve our sustainable food problem?

Are we entering the golden era of crop science? Can agritech solve our sustainable food problem, increase productivity and help farming withstand hostile and extreme weather? Here are five things we learned from our recent webinar.

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Building on net zero: From pledges to priorities in 2022

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Biodiversity: five lessons in cohabiting with the natural world

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Race to zero: five trends in decarbonising the built environment

The race to a net zero built environment has started. In our webinar, we discussed who is leading the race and how to maintain the momentum.

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Climate change and land use: Repairing centuries of damage

Since the industrial revolution, misuse and overuse of non-urban land has contributed greatly to climate change. Between now and mid-century, ecosy...

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Putting a price on the planet: Part 2 – How can businesses capitalise on nature?

Contenders in the race to net zero are striving, with some success, to find viable policy and financial instruments in support of the decarbonisation

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