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🏢 Keeping people safe starts with how we design, build and adapt.
Homes, workplaces, and public buildings must be understood as the first line of protection in a changing climate.
🖱️Download the UK Climate Resilience Roadmap to learn how we can transform the built environment: tinyurl.com/3k35jkm6
👐 Thank you to everyone who joined us for a fantastic evening celebrating the launch of the UK Climate Resilience Roadmap.
🚨 This Roadmap is not a report, it's an an urgent call to action for the built environment. The time to act is now.
🖱️Download, read, engage with us: tinyurl.com/3k35jkm6
♨️ Did you know that more than 55% of UK homes are already at risk of overheating?
💻 Following our UK Climate Resilience Roadmap, this webinar will help built environment professionals understand some of the innovative solutions available to reduce overheating.
🖱️Register here: tinyurl.com/25uavmxe
🎉We've officially launched the UK Climate Resilience Roadmap.
This is not just a report; it’s a tool for bringing awareness and enabling action. The time to act is now. Learn how: download, read, engage with us.
🖱️Download it here: tinyurl.com/3422vaju
📣We're thrilled to announce that Miatta Fahnbulleh, Emma Howard Boyd CBE, and Dr. Eleni Myrivili will be speaking at the launch of the UK Climate Resilience Roadmap on June 26th.
💻Join us for the official launch of the Roadmap by signing up for the event livestream here: tinyurl.com/mrxje6pc
📣UKGBC responds to the Government's 2025 Comprehensive Spending Review.
Today, Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled her line by line spending review, setting out the budgets of government departments until 2030.
🖱️Read Simon's full response here: tinyurl.com/kym4ckfb
⏳Have you responded to our Framework Definition for a Nature Positive Built Environment consultation?
🌿This consultation seeks input from individuals across the sector to ensure that the built environment can take robust steps toward a nature positive future.
🖱️Respond here: tinyurl.com/538bv6za
🏗️How can sustainable construction practices help the UK meet Sustainable Development Goals?
Sustainability in construction is crucial to achieving many of these goals, such as lowering emissions, protecting nature, and enhancing human health and wellbeing.
📚Read more here: tinyurl.com/bddwv2t6
🌍UKGBC welcomes the Climate Change Committee's guidance to the Scottish Government on setting carbon budget levels to 2045.
⚡The CCC’s recommendations highlight the urgent need to scale up climate action across all sectors – including the built environment – to stay on track for #NetZero.
📣Announcing our new Scaling Sustainable Solutions for the Built Environment initiative!
💡 This initiative aims to accelerate the uptake of innovative sustainable solutions through targeted matchmaking, research into barriers to scaling, and knowledge sharing.
Learn more here: tinyurl.com/5a9cmpdc
📣We are seeking your feedback on our Framework Definition for a Nature-Positive Built Environment!
🌲We’re working to provide the clarity, tools, and guidance needed to ensure the built environment can take meaningful steps toward nature positivity—starting now.
Respond here: tinyurl.com/538bv6za
💭How does workforce competence in the energy and retrofit sector affect non-compliance?
📝In our latest blog, Mat Ilic, CEO of Greenworkx, stresses the need for a new workforce strategy that centres both competence and qualifications.
Read Mat's blog here: tinyurl.com/y2b78h86
📣 UKGBC responds to the government's consultation on raising minimum energy efficiency standards (MEES) for privately rented homes.
Tackling fuel poverty and decarbonising our homes must include upgrades within the privately rented sector (PRS).
🖱️Read our full response: tinyurl.com/4fxjw6er
📣UKGBC responds to the Climate Change Committee's latest report on adaption.
According to the CCC’s latest report, the UK government is failing to make “good” progress in adapting the UK to climate change.
🖱️Read our Deputy CEO Simon McWhirter's full response here: tinyurl.com/yvsjxset
📣 UKGBC responds to DEFRA's consultation on land use.
The Labour government's consultation on the Land Use Framework aims to set up a strategic approach to land use in England.
🖱️ Read UKGBC's response to the consultation here: ukgbc.org/news/ukgbc-r...
📣Our built environment must prepare and respond to a changing climate.
🛣️As part of our UK Climate Resilience Roadmap, we sought to create a vision of what a climate resilient built environment could be and the key actions that will get us there.
🖱️Learn more about the Roadmap: tinyurl.com/3k35jkm6
💭How can we create flood-resilient cities?
⛈ 1 in 4 homes in the UK will be at risk of flooding by 2050.
Our new blog outlines key actions that organisations can take to make sure that our cities are resilient to an increasingly volatile climate.
🖱️Read it here:
tinyurl.com/3e6aeddx
📣UKGBC responds to the government's Spring Budget 2025.
Today, Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out her plans for the UK economy during her Spring Statement.
🖱Read Simon's full response here: tinyurl.com/3r2cb2av
🏡How can we build a resilient, sustainable retrofit ecosystem for all?
In our latest blog, @Helen Burridge, manager of the Hertfordshire Climate Change and Sustainability Partnership, discusses her experience with UKGBC's Local Authority Retrofit Accelerator.
📚Read it here: tinyurl.com/yc82wjfk
'The planning system is a vital tool in tackling the climate crisis. It's crucial to every decision made. With @friends-earth.bsky.social @ukgbc.bsky.social @thetcpa.bsky.social & @hello-cse.bsky.social we sent this to MPs for the 2nd Reading of #PlanningAndInfrastructureBill shorturl.at/2UC2l
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💭Did you know that many solutions exist which can facilitate site selection for Biodiversity Net Gain targets?
We've highlighted tools that provide an easy and fast way to assess sites and produce baseline Biodiversity Unit value.
🌿Learn more about these tools here: tinyurl.com/2dvhk45p
📣UKGBC responds to GB Energy's project to install solar panels on schools and hospitals across the UK.
💡This £180m investment will not only protect schools and hospitals from soaring energy bills, but it'll also free up cash for reinvestment into crucial frontline services.
See our response below:
📣Calling Local Authority officers!
🗓On the 24th of March, we will be holding a Local Authority Retrofit Forum to discuss the lessons learnt so far from the Local Authority Retrofit Accelerator (LARA) pilot.
🖱For more information and to register, please go to: tinyurl.com/memh96wy
📣UKGBC responds to Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch's speech on the UK's 2050 net zero target.
Our Deputy CEO, Simon McWhirter, responded to Badenoch's claim that reaching net zero by 2050 is "impossible."
💭What do you make of her claim?
🖱Read Simon's full response here: tinyurl.com/me85nz84
💭What do we mean when we talk about climate adaptation in the built environment?
⛈️Climate adaptation refers to the actions that cope with current and anticipated climate change effects.
Learn more about our upcoming UK Climate Resilience Roadmap: ukgbc.org/our-work/top...
#Futurebuild 2025 is in full swing!
🤝Come by and learn more about UKGBC's work and our network!
As part of the 3-day event, we are participating in main stage events, panel discussions, as well as hosting a materials workshop.
🗓Explore our full activity calendar here: tinyurl.com/587pw3a6
🏗️Are you attending #FutureBuild?
🤝Come meet the UKGBC team at our stand and learn more about our work!
Explore our panels and talks this year: tinyurl.com/587pw3a6
📣UKGBC responds to the Climate Change Committee's Seventh Carbon Budget.
🖱️Read Smith's full response here: ukgbc.org/news/ukgbc-r...
💼Want to be part of the UKGBC team?
We have a number of exciting opportunities available across our teams. Join us and be part of our mission to radically improve the sustainability of the built environment.
📝Learn more and apply here: tinyurl.com/2d7bdtnj
💭What are environmental product declarations (EPDs) and how do they relate to materials passports?
In our new blog, Andrew Cowan of One Click LCA explores how EPDs are crucial in facilitating the adoption of materials passports across the built environment.
🧱Read more here: tinyurl.com/353x6ba3
