The UK has lost its position on climate leadership, says a new report by the Committee on Climate Change, which expresses doubts Britain will meet its net zero targets – particularly when it comes to buildings
The residents of the run-down high-rises on Glasgow’s Wyndford estate are battling a proposal to demolish the towers and rebuild. They are true climate champions, writes architect Malcolm Fraser
Offsetting is not even close to being sustainable and is allowing lazy, ego-driven designs to be accepted, says Kunle Barker
Foster + Partners says it will not endorse a report by the RIBA and Architects Declare because it ‘diverges with the Paris Agreement’ on how to tackle climate change
We should listen to what COP26 delegate Maria Hillary Zuniga Hiaiquin has to say, says David Grandorge. We must all learn to live with less, as indigenous peoples the world over already do
When it comes to developing the built environment, the same words can be used to mean very different things – just like Neil Young’s lyrics, writes Smith Mordak
RIBA president Simon Allford has welcomed the Glasgow Climate Pact – but said ‘it’s what happens next that really matters’
Follow all the action from the Cities, Regions and Built Environment day at COP26
A survey of architects has highlighted the biggest barriers to delivering sustainable buildings as being project cost restraints, client demands, poor engagement and value engineering
An architect who creates just three typical buildings over their career will be responsible for carbon emissions equivalent to the lifetime emissions of 162 typical Americans, the COP26 summit in Glasgow has been told
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