Climate emergency: are you part of the problem or part of the solution?

By Chloë McCulloch2021-10-18T05:00:00

COP26 is coming and professionals in the built environment must use this moment to focus minds on the path to net zero

We are just two weeks away from Glasgow hosting the world’s biggest ever climate conference: COP26. It has been said that the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties is actually two summits: one for the politicians and negotiators to agree action to tackle rising global temperatures, the other for the tiers below where business leaders and policy-makers will congregate to puzzle over the practical issues of how to implement their plans.

Of course it can be, and has been, dismissed as a big talking shop – Greta Thunberg’s mocking “blah, blah, blah” – but exchanging ideas is exactly what construction needs to do to play its part in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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