Ongoing Forum

Net Zero Forums

A space where organisations from across the built environment come together to share learnings and experiences on the pathway to net zero carbon, enabling collective progress to be made through industry-wide collaboration.

Climate Change Mitigation Advancing Net Zero Forum

Future opportunity

About the Forums

UKGBC’s Net Zero Forums bring together industry professionals who are actively working on net zero within the built environment to share learnings, find solutions, and collectively make progress. The intention of the Net Zero Forums is to create a supportive community of peers from within the UKGBC membership to explore shared challenges with achieving net zero carbon and discuss the solutions to them.

As ‘net zero’ is a broad term, forums will be offered on a number of specific topics. Collaborative and informal meetings will be held monthly for a period of six-months for each topic. Topics will be repeated should there by high demand.

Target audience

The Net Zero Forums are open to individuals at UKGBC member organisations who are actively working on topics and projects directly related to the relevant sub-group area.

Supply Chain

Building on UKGBC’s supply chain decarbonisation workstream, this topic area will provide the opportunity to discuss some of the practical and procedural challenges and successes in supply chain engagement and the promotion of sustainability. Subject matter could include low-carbon materials, data, supplier engagement and procurement. We anticipate the forum as being of particular interest to procurement teams, suppliers and operational teams amongst others.

Energy Distribution Systems

A forum for the discussion of the challenges and opportunities in accessing and integrating evolving energy distribution systems into buildings. Of particular interest to developers, building owners, master planners and operational teams, there will be the opportunity to discuss this topic as an evolving systemic issue across the built environment, informed by member experience. Topic areas are also likely to include alignment to issues of climate resilience and energy security amongst others.

Outputs

You may have seen other UKGBC forums publish outputs, such as the Circular Economy metrics paper or Non-Domestic Retrofit blog. Such outputs share the work the forum has been doing and are an opportunity to present challenges and solutions to relevant issues.

Forum Dates

Supply Chain commencing September 2025.

Energy Distribution Systems commencing October 2025.

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Get involved

Learn more about the forum by talking to our UKGBC representatives.

Simon Matthews Advisor – Advancing Net Zero

Advancing Net Zero

Created in 2018 as part of a World Green Building Council former global Advancing Net Zero programme, UKGBC’s Advancing Net Zero programme has a mission to lead the UK’s transition to a net zero built environment. It has produced leading guidance such as the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework and the Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap, whilst working with organisations and experts across the industry.