UK Green Building Council (UKGBC)

💡 Do you know that optimisation alone can result in a one-third reduction in energy use intensity? 🖥 Join this webinar to discover and understand some of the solutions available for optimising energy use in commercial buildings. During the session, you will understand the solutions available and have the opportunity to ask follow-up questions to solution providers. 🎫 Tickets are selling fast, secure your spot now! https://lnkd.in/eM98pmH5

Last week, UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) and Buro Happold Urban C:Lab ran a Private Sector Offsetting Collaboration Cafe where we discussed: 🌟 What good offsetting looks like 🚧 The barriers and challenges ❓Should decarbonisation be the focus of offsetting?   Come join us at our next Offsetting Collaboration Cafe on the 4th of December for coffee, pastries, and chats about public sector offsetting. https://lnkd.in/ehWgW64W Learn more about what we have to offer in our Advancing Net Zero Programme here: https://lnkd.in/eMb9_wGY

💭 Curious about what happens during the innovation field trip included in Future Leaders? 🏙 The 2025 cohort will travel to Leeds in January as part of the programme. There, you will meet with experts and visit projects that address and tackle key sustainability challenges to get inspiration to start unpacking the journey of your own innovation project. Expert speakers will provide you with inspirational leadership and innovation stories to draw upon. 🤝 It is the perfect opportunity to meet the rest of the cohort, share experiences, and get inspired by testimonials from other built environment professionals leading the sustainability change. 📝 Join Future Leaders now, before applications close on 20th November! https://lnkd.in/e_GBabVC

📣UKGBC responds to the 2025 Autumn Budget Announcement. Smith Mordak, Chief Executive Officer of UKGBC: "Rachel Reeves’ £3.4 billion ‘first step’ towards the Government’s Warm Homes plan, seems more like a tiptoe. She’s left a huge gap to fill in the spring Comprehensive Spending Review. The Government knows how much money is needed to fix draughty, cold gas-guzzling homes." 📄Read the full response here: https://lnkd.in/e94jYi4n 🖱Learn more about UKGBC's Policy and Advocacy work: https://lnkd.in/gAn-cRYT

🌲 50% of the UK’s economy is linked to nature, yet the UK is one of the most biodiversity-depleted countries in the world. 🍃 Restoring our natural environments is critical to building our future green economy. Join us for this Biodiversity Net Gain masterclass and take a deep dive into England's legislation and policy context, and how to achieve and surpass the mandated minimum 10% biodiversity uplift in a new project. 📝 Register now! https://lnkd.in/eeUxy4d8

🌍 We are thrilled to welcome Clarion Housing Group as a UKGBC Regenerative Places Programme Partner! Our Regenerative Places Programme (RPP) works with several pilot local areas to explore and demonstrate how retrofit can act as a catalyst to ensure wider regenerative benefits to communities, such as: -Decarbonising heat and energy  -Improving biodiversity and green space  -Offering health and social value benefits  -Strengthening climate resilience. 🤝 Clarion’s commitment to improving neighbourhoods while making homes more sustainable aligns perfectly with our mission. Want to learn more about our Regenerative Places Programme or become a partner? 🖱Check out our Programme page here: https://lnkd.in/eiN_zCpD

📣Our Deputy Chief Executive Simon McWhirter was featured on ITN's latest programme on the role of urban transformation in meeting climate goals. Check out the full programme here: https://lnkd.in/eHRMX6UA

💷 Get the support you need with our new free Climate Finance Bitesize Guides, designed to help professionals navigate sustainable finance in the built environment. 📚 These guides provide essential knowledge on how to leverage climate, green, and sustainability-linked bonds and green and sustainability-linked loans to accelerate your net zero journey. 🖱 Download the resources here: https://lnkd.in/eRu-mjnb We'd like to thank our Advancing Net Zero members & programme partners for making this work possible: BAM UK & Ireland, Berkeley Group Plc, Buro Happold, CBRE, Grosvenor, Hoare Lea, ISG, JLL,Lloyds Banking Group, ROCKWOOL UK, Turner & Townsend #ClimateFinance #NetZero

📣We are partnering with Climate Action for the Sustainable Innovation Forum 2024, which takes place as the largest multi-stakeholder event during COP29 in Baku on the 13-14 November. 📝You can register at https://j1l.in/JpFliz #SIF24 #COP29

In 8 days, the new Government's Autumn Budget will be announced. Ahead of this, we're sharing our budget submission to the Treasury. We call for: 🏡Home upgrades to be treated as national infrastructure priority with increased investment. 💷Funding for local authorities to increase capacity for planning decisions and home upgrade schemes. 📮Modernisation of Stamp Duty Land Tax with rebates for home upgrade measures. ⚡A shift in levies from electricity bills to general taxation. As concluded in our 100-day report on Government progress, without a shift in Treasury support for upgrading cold homes and treating them as a national infrastructure priority, the Government's ambition to reduce heating bills, deliver a clean electricity grid by 2030, and meet climate commitments, will remain out of reach. 📄Read the full budget submission here: https://lnkd.in/ehcAhSdT 📄Read our 100-days report here: https://lnkd.in/eWa93qVx