UKGBC Launches #BuildingLife Roadmap Ambassadors Campaign

Introducing UKGBC’s #BuildingLife Roadmap Ambassadors, uniting industry and policy leaders to accelerate action on whole life carbon and climate resilience across the built environment.

UKGBC is launching today the  Roadmaps Ambassador Campaign, a collective effort from industry leaders and policymakers to support the adoption of the Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap and the UK Climate Resilience Roadmap across the built environment sector.  

UKGBC’s Roadmaps guide the built environment sector in building a low carbon, resilient and regenerative built environment at the pace required to meet climate targets. Adopting the roadmaps more widely will help deliver a sustainable built environment that protects lives, homes, jobs, communities and nature.

Why Now?

Findings from the Whole Life Carbon Roadmap Progress Report show that the built environment is dangerously behind on decarbonisation. Since 2018, emissions in the built environment have fallen by just 14% against the 24% needed. The evidence is clear: systemic acceleration is required.  

This campaign, part of WorldGBC’s #BuildingLife initiative, is working across Europe to eliminate emissions across the full lifecycle of buildings and deliver a climate-neutral built environment. It directly supports WorldGBC’s initiative which aims to promote a whole life carbon approach across 12 counties and supports the global ambition of making near-zero and resilient buildings the norm by 2030

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Paul Cahalan, Associate Director of Membership, Marketing and Communications said:

“This campaign comes at a critical time for the sector amid a rapidly changing climate and brings together industry and political voices to take the key messages from the two roadmaps deeper into industry and policy conversations. Though greater adoption, industry and policymakers can use the roadmaps to help create a low carbon, resilient and regenerative built environment.”

The following individuals have joined the campaign as Roadmap Ambassadors:

  • Will Arnold, Head of Sustainable Materials, Useful Simple Trust.
  • Ashley Bateson, Director & Head of Sustainability, Hoare Lea.
  • Louise Clarke, Group Head of Sustainability, Berkeley Group PLC.
  • Georgia Elliott-Smith, Founder & Director, Fighting Dirty | Sustainability Director, Elliott Wood.
  • Emma Howard Boyd CBE, Chair, National Heat Risk Commission | Chair – ClientEarth Group Board | Co-Chair, HERA (formerly Climate Resilience for All)
  • Stephen Good, CEO, Built Environment – Smarter Transformation.
  • Douglas Morrison, Deputy CEO, Built Environment – Smarter Transformation.
  • Chinyelu Oranefo, Managing Director, Sustainability Advisory, Real Estate & Housing, Lloyds Corporate & Institutional.
  • Duncan Price, Partner, Sustainability, Buro Happold.
  • Rt Hon Chris Skidmore, OBE, Former UK Energy Minister, Chair of the Climate Action Coalition, Working Group Chair – UK Transition Finance Council.
  • Simon Sturgis, Founder, Targeting Zero
  • Katherine Willis, Baroness Willis of Summertown, Principal, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford | Professor of Biodiversity in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford | Cross-Bench Peer, House of Lords | Founder and Director, NatCap Research LTD.

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