Built Environment

CEOs from across the economy have written a letter urging that coronavirus recovery efforts align with the UK’s wider social, environmental and climate goals

The local authority has also committed to halving its carbon dioxide emissions by 2023

Green Alliance suggests a 20% VAT on repair and renovation work discourages upgrades to existing buildings and incentivises new constructions, contributing to a higher carbon footprint

A total of 30 large purchasing organisations from around the world have started working with CDP this year to help manage their supply chains more sustainably

The J3 project will comprise 3,000 sustainably developed homes and is expected to boost the local economy by an additional £390 million a year

The initiative will drive the development of energy-efficient buildings which run primarily on renewable energy, with the leftover carbon dioxide emissions being compensated on an annual basis

The scheme aims to boost innovation and help accelerate time to market for sustainable smart home and ‘plant to plug’ solutions

The project will generate an estimated 1,000kW of electricity each hour, reducing the institute’s carbon footprint by around 15%

A five-storey office block’s facades are covered by eight kilometres of hornbeam hedges and more than 30,000 plants to help provide climate solutions

The concrete structures will save more than 7,250 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to removing about 1,350 vehicles off the road for a year