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WEBINAR: What’s next for nature? BNG, ESG, and the TNFD in real estate In this webinar we will consider the progress of changes in policy and industry practices on nature in the UK, since COP26. The key focus will be…

Why Public Toilets are a Social Value Issue The narrative surrounding sanitation in the UK needs to change. Statistics on sanitation, health and death rates caused by lack of access to public toilets highlights this starkly. Caroline Criado Perez in…

What is Sustainable Finance and what does it ‘mean’ to me? Climate change, biodiversity loss and social injustice is happening. The natural systems that govern a stable environment are unbalanced and that unbalance is manifesting itself in more extreme weather…

TNFD – Aligning benefits for nature and business The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) Beta Framework sets out the first international standard for alignment of financial sector activities with nature-related risk. This is a ground-breaking concept which could have…

Embodied carbon and cement replacement: what are the alternatives? Over recent years, the UK has taken important steps to become a world leader in cutting greenhouse gas emissions. In 2019, the Government declared a climate emergency and set a legally…

What is Social Value? Social value is an attempt to quantify the value attributed to activities and interventions that contribute to communities, individuals, organisations. The source of it lies in the Public Service Act in 2012, which became known as…

What does ESG mean to me? ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance. In many cases ESG is interchangeable with ‘sustainability’ but tends to be used more in a business context, and around the company’s business operations and model i.e.…

As sustainability consultants and EIA practitioners we have been looking at ways in which the industry can move Environmental Statements (ES) into digital formats both as interactive plans and maps, to the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in order to experience the development…

The BREEAM 2018 guidance brings with it a new set of challenges but also demands engagement at the early concept design stages, requiring that the team follow a process rather than specifying the outcome. The infographic found here identifies some…