UKGBC's Top Five
UK Green Building Council (UKGBC)
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Welcome to UKGBC's Top Five, our monthly roundup that brings you the latest highlights from across our sustainable built environment.??
We’re less than a month away from COP28, where national leaders and delegates from across the globe will convene for the United Nation’s annual climate meeting. UKGBC will be there in Dubai to represent our 700+ members and champion the immense potential of the built environment as an untapped, pivotal catalyst that can deliver systemic change. In this month’s update, we bring you a range of opportunities to get involved with our work at COP28 and beyond, to ensure our industry is primed to deliver the climate action we urgently need.
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COP28 is an opportunity to boldly present the collaborative business force behind the sustainable built environment movement in the UK, showing government that, despite recent setbacks, we are committed and champion the strategic growth opportunities which net zero can deliver.
UKGBC will run a programme of online and in-person activities for members to participate in both in the lead up to and during COP28, as well as represent our members in climate discussions with an on-the-ground presence Dubai.
UKGBC’s Future Leaders programme returns in 2024 for a six-month process of innovation, collaboration and sustainability leadership. The action-focused programme empowers participants with the skills to fast-track their leadership journey, a deep understanding of innovation and sustainability and connects them to a powerful community of forward-thinking peers from across the sector.?
Now in its 11th year, Future Leaders has shifted focus from ideas into action. Participants in the 2024 cohort will tackle industry challenges by working collaboratively to evolve innovative concepts into collective action initiatives that can deliver the change the industry needs at scale and pace.
UKGBC has launched new Bitesize Explainer Guides to accelerate sustainability learning across the industry. Using jargon-free language, these introductory guides are an accessible learning resource supporting all built environment stakeholders to get to grips with complex?sustainability?concepts. The new series covers the topics of Retrofit, Biodiversity and Environmental Net Gain, Climate Resilience, Carbon Offsetting, Net Zero Organisations and Circular Economy.
UKGBC new interactive resource illustrates how the built environment’s supply chains are exacerbating the global ecological and biodiversity crisis. The Embodied Ecological Impacts Knowledge Hub tracks and maps supply chains of several materials key to design and construction of the built environment, how they are impacting precious ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural environments around the world as well as key considerations to reduce the ecological footprint of your material choice.
As part of our Advancing Net Zero Programme UKGBC is seeking industry feedback on proposed new guidance setting out proposals for how embodied carbon data can be utilised and included within Scope 3 reporting for built environment organisations. The guidance aims to establish a coherent link between Scope 3 reporting and embodied carbon assessments, supporting strategic emissions reduction efforts. This is an opportunity for UKGBC members and the wider industry to share their perspectives on the guidance which will go on to influence stakeholders across the built environment industry. We seek feedback form all and in particular from those familiar with embodied carbon assessments and the GHG Protocol.
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