Building on established industry models and standards, the framework takes an expanded approach to value creation by establishing nine ‘Dimensions of Place’. It then identifies six key transitions needed to enable a regenerative approach and sets out the policy levers needed to enable regenerative approaches. It also highlights practical case studies from projects in design and completion.

The framework is designed for industry professionals who fund, plan, commission, design, deliver and steward new housing and retrofit, including; local authorities, housing providers and professionals across planning, design, development and construction. It also serves as a good reference for community organisations, public services and others shaping the long-term outcomes of place.

 

Simon McWhirter, chief executive of UKGBC, said:

In its essence, rather than doing less harm, this framework sets out the conditions in which industry can instead focus its attention and efforts on delivering positive change across national, social and economic systems, delivering real and long-lasting benefits to local people, communities and places.

In effect – weaving together the opportunities for change to help us craft really thriving places for the future.”

Regenerative Places

Our programme utilises a place-based retrofit strategy to enhance local network capacity, strengthen resilience against future climate-related challenges, and deliver broad regenerative benefits to communities.

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What if every time we built or retrofitted our homes, the world around us got better?

The Regenerative Places Framework for Housing sets out a new way of thinking about how we plan, design, deliver and steward homes and neighbourhoods.

Its central proposition is simple: housing can do more than minimise harm. Homes and neighbourhoods can be designed to restore and strengthen the capacity of places to support life, while continuing to adapt to changing conditions.

Regenerative housing recognises homes as part of interconnected living systems, shaped by relationships between people, place, nature and resources. It asks us to look beyond the individual building and consider how housing can contribute to healthier, more resilient and thriving places over time.

The Framework provides a shared vision and practical pathways for applying this approach across housing projects, from the earliest stages of planning and design through delivery and beyond handover.

Download the Framework here

Regenerative Places Programme Partners

Thank you to our previous Regenerative Places Programme Partner

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Homes shape the places around us: influencing our health, our connection to community, our access to nature, our energy use and our resilience to a changing climate. As the UK works to meet housing demand while responding to climate change and biodiversity loss, regenerative approaches to new housing and retrofit can help create healthier communities, restore nature and generate long-term local value.

UKGBC’s Regenerative Places Framework for Housing has been developed to support this shift from within our current system. Developed through engagement with a wide range of stakeholders across the built environment and beyond, the Framework sets out the key transitions needed, where and how projects can create long term local value, and the pathways to embed these approaches.

At this launch event, UKGBC will introduce the Framework and its core principles, share learning from the engagement process that shaped it, and hear from practitioners who are already applying regenerative approaches in real-world projects.

Following its official launch on the 16th September, UKGBC will be hosting an additional online launch for the Framework. In this webinar, we will be discussing: the core principles, share learning from the engagement process that shaped it, and hearing from practitioners who are already applying regenerative approaches in real-world projects.

Who Is It For?

This event is ideal for designers, housebuilders, investors, local government and place-makers looking to ensure regenerative thinking is embedded within their work.

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*Please note this event is for UKGBC members only.

Why do so many sustainability and organisational change initiatives struggle to deliver lasting impact? Often, the visible challenge isn’t the real problem. Lasting change requires us to look beneath the surface to understand the patterns, systems, and mental models that shape the way organisations and people behave.

In this webinar, we’ll explore the Iceberg Model – a simple but powerful systems thinking framework that helps individuals and organisations move beyond treating symptoms to addressing the root causes of complex challenges. Participants will explore how events, patterns, structures and mental models interact to shape outcomes and influence change.

The built environment is a complex system of interconnected organisations, policies, behaviours and supply chains. Understanding how these elements influence one another is essentials for creating lasting sustainability outcomes. Through practical examples drawn from our sector’s biggest sustainability challenges, attendees will learn how to use systems thinking approaches to recognise where to focus effort to create lasting change and positive impact.

By attending, you will

• Understand the core principles of the Iceberg Model.
• Learn how to identify the root causes behind complex challenges.
• Develop a systems thinking approach to problem-solving and driving change.
• Recognise where to focus your efforts to create more effective and lasting positive impact.
• Leave with practical ways to apply the Iceberg Model in your own organisation and sustainability challenges.

Who Should Attend?

This webinar is designed for anyone within our membership responsible for influencing change, pimproving performance, or embedding sustainability within complex project and organisational environments. It will be particularly relevant for:

• Sustainability, ESG and net zero professionals across real estate, construction, engineering, infrastructure and property sectors.
• Strategy, transformation and organisational development professionals responsible for change programmes and business improvement.
• Project managers, programme managers and delivery leads looking to address systemic challenges more efffectively.
• Senior leaders, directors and managers seeking practical tools for leading organisational change.
• Consultants, advisors and facilitators working in sustainability, systems change, innovation or transformation.
• Public sector, local authority and housing professionals tackling complex environmental, social and organisational challenges.

This session is ideal for anyone looking to understand how the Iceberg Model can help create deeper, more sustainable and lasting change.

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So, what does leadership look like in a sector that is, by its own admission, a laggard in innovation and doing things differently? And how do we choose reinvention over repetition?

Don’t we all want the same thing: better design, better projects, less waste? But… is it the system that is constraining us when sustainable buildings are still secondary to time and cost?

The Human Question

There is a phrase that surfaces in conversations with built environment leaders: once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Once you genuinely understand, (and are deeply moved) by the scale of what is needed; not just technically, but morally, there should be no comfortable return to business as usual, when we are talking about an existential threat to humankind.

Leadership in this space is not primarily a technical skills. It is a collective action, not just the responsibility of senior leaders, but of all of us with the agency and influence to act. It is a willingness to pause and engage. In an industry where project pressure compresses every decision into the shortest possible cycle, carving out time and space to think differently is itself a radical act. It requires the kind of human-to-human engagement that no linear tender process or delivery programme makes room for.

What does it mean to genuinely care as a business leader? It means holding the moral case and the business case in the same hand and navigating both together; they are not in opposition.

The UKGBC Recalibrate Executive Leadership programme has found repeatedly that senior leaders care; they care deeply. Their barriers are navigating change within the current system, but it is clear collaboration at sector level is an essential solution.

From looking at why not, to looking at how, and why we must

Systems Change thinking sounds abstract until you apply it live. Following five rounds or Recalibrate, leaders came out of the programme saying ‘we need to shift together’, and look at the full value chain. The UKGBC facilitated the collaborative, systems-based examination of two live, major commercial and residential projects. The outcome was the development of a regenerative vision and solutions for overcoming real issues such as viability by looking at the problem holistically and in a different way. Standing back and asking different questions can have more value than we think.

We have seen what happens when a team pauses to look holistically at a project – not just at cost and programme, but at how every decision connects to resource use, supply chain, long-term performance, and community outcomes. Making decisions differently is not utopian, but practical. Communities become part of the process. Waste gets interrogated. Utilities like energy and water become precious. Nature is given space. Over-specification, still one of the most persistent and least-discussed inefficiencies in our industry, gets called out.

 

This kind of thinking cannot stay at project level. It needs to move through the sector: into conversations about what gets financed and on what terms, into how we configure supply chains, and into how we define partnerships that are built around shared outcomes and long-term value rather than risk transfer.

As part of the UKGBC Systems Change programme, we recently held a fabulous ‘re-imagining finance’ event to literally re-imagine how sustainable finance could unlock a more sustainable built environment. This event was hosted by Hawkins\Brown and run by UKGBC and the University of Southampton and kicked off the UKGBC Finance, Value and Risk workstream.

This is not about making sustainability palatable by dressing it in financial language. It is about recognising that the two were never as separate as we made them.

Viability is not the enemy of ambition

The current pressure on viability does not have to be a reason to lower ambition. Hawkins\Brown’s Build Lean campaign recognises it can be a forcing function to the rigour that good, sustainable design has always demanded: optimised, sufficient, deliberately free of waste. Buildings fit for today and tomorrow should focus on honesty and transparency that is part of the ongoing design conversation from inception and beyond completion. They are delivered by trams that value periods for reflection more than the certainty of a linear programme. They share their lessons and demonstrate measured outcomes that meet the needs of people and the planet. They are frameworks that provide just enough; sourced from thoroughly evidenced supply chains, that embody care for their contexts, owners and occupiers. They are maintained and adapted as technology, social structures, and out climate change.

The work ahead

We are not arguing for home as a passive state. The urgency is real and scary, and softening it with comfortable framing does nobody any favours. But the sector has the tools and knowledge to succeed. We need to use our agency and influence at project, organisational and systems level to make change happen. What it needs is leadership willing to sit with the discomfort and act anyway.

Once you see it, you really can’t unsee it.

Louisa Bowles is Partner and Head of Sustainability at Hawkins\Brown. Elfrida Hamilton-Russell is Chief Impact Officer at UKGBC, where she leads the Leadership programme.

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Recalibrate is our leadership programme for C-Suite execs and board members. The first in-person touchpoint of this programme is called ‘Night at the Museum’. Do not put too much emphasis on the title- it is an evening in a heritage space – so neither a night nor a museum makes a debut in this event. If you did think about the movie though, you might be getting warmer, very much like our planet. I did find myself in Ben Stiller’s shoes because very much like the plot of the movie, I did not really know what I had signed up for until the sun went down and took the spotlight and brought to life all the characters playing a role in climate change. Before he takes the stage, we open with an exercise on sharing what is the legacy the cohort wants to leave behind. A thought-provoking talk and a gripping conversation later, we close the evening with a lovely dinner to mark the beginning of a six-month journey they will all be embarking on from that point.

Leave a Legacy

This July evening, set against the backdrop of the with its 17th century panelling and Georgian chandeliers, opens with a small activity set up in the kick off call with the cohort a week before. Each delegate is asked to bring along, given that it is transportable, an object that symbolises the legacy they want to leave behind.

Every year we have a cornucopia of the most unexpected items but surprisingly what lies at the core of all of them is the hope and optimism it represents. This year the themes covered the desire to ‘becoming a better global citizen, working through the system rather than being bogged down by it, and helping create a built environment by it housing, infrastructure or the natural ecosystem that contains it all’. What stood out for me was how much, directly or indirectly, all the professionals on an individual level hold themselves accountable for what we are creating and leaving behind on this planet.

 

I used to think I understood climate change until i heard jonathon’s talk. i think it’s the shock of understanding the magnitude of the problem we are in that leaves everyone feeling slightly discombulated every year.”

I have always related to the feeling mostly because that might have been the first thing taught to me in architecture school. I recall scribbling in my notebook, ‘Be mindful of what you draw, because a couple of lines on a roll of paper will end up becoming something that you cannot erase as easily as the line that started it.’ However, when one enters the professional world and unintentionally, albeit inevitably, becomes a teeny tiny cog in a huge machine, it is hard to experience any kind of connection between one’s decisions and the impact of the eventual result again.��This connection will be brought to the forefront as we hand over the mic to our��guest speaker.

Jonathon Porritt

Jonathon has an impressive background in climate change and built environment sustainability, but all of his accolades cannot put into words what he adds to this programme. I have always found his talk gripping for the balance that he strikes between the urgent and desperate need for action, against the ‘toxic hope’ he says he holds within himself to be able to continue striving for the change we need to galvanise if we have any chance of making sure that the planet does not shake us off.

He paints a picture of the quagmire we have managed to trap ourselves into. This year he explained how the manifestation of extractive capitalism that let the market forces run without proper control until now is more durable and shockproof than us and the ‘Goldilocks climate’ that has actualised humanity and the rest of the living planet.��Drawing on the words of from his book , Jonathon compared this manifestation to a wendigo, a mythical cannibalistic creature from indigenous folklore, whose insatiable appetite isn’t for its nourishment but for the sake of it.

What’s worse, he adds, is that it has remoulded humans into happy well-behaved consumers with a psychological pattern to accumulate with barely to no regard for anyone or anything else. There is something emotional about listening to these fast approaching tipping points in a centuries old room that may have stood the test of time until now, but is approaching a bleak future with every passing day of inaction. For me it makes these tipping points seem closer and unavoidable than ever.

After a very heart breaking reality check on the gradual decline of the sustainability agenda against a soaring graph of population and GDP, he brings that aforementioned hope by sharing some very interesting mini-revolutions emerging across the globe, be it Australia’s Solar Sharer offer or Pakistani farmers’ grass roots movement of replacing diesel engines with solar panels. Against dusky skies, it dawned on all of us sitting in that circle, that though there is hope for the future with such brilliant initiatives, the scale of change is nowhere close to being enough leaving the room in an almost eerie silence.

Allowing the group a couple of moments of reflection, Jonathon brought the onus back to the people in the room and what role they can play in swerving us off this path we are on. Everyone discussed how the lack of technical knowledge among politicians builds a barrier for the industry to make short term trade-offs in sacrifice of a better future but the question still remains – what can be done ‘by us’ to support what needs to be done.

As professionals, we indeed find ourselves so bogged into the day to day and the languages of business model. Some days it’s all about carbon, others is about circularity, only to realise that biodiversity net gain has not been mentioned at all. A couple years ago we called it sustainability, these days we cannot get enough regenerative design. However, as Jonathon puts it, whatever language we decide to use – sustainability, resilience, regeneration, it needs to be out there, talked about. The business-as-usual side is winning not just because they might not understand what we are asking for but mostly due to lack of understandable and relatable narrative from our end. One of the delegate’s closing example really stayed with me – we might get more folks on board with renewables if we change the narrative associated to solar panels as an energy security measure, rather than a sustainability measure.

More Food for Thought

After such an engaging conversation, it is only right to��move to a��convivial close. The group went on to get to know each other��and unpack what stood out for them.��The topics spanned everything from��plans for the upcoming summer holidays��to the��possibilities��for the fossil fuel industry��set against��the��unshakable��Trump��administration��alongside UK’s��(yet again)��new administration.��Jonathon left the group with��the words,��‘collectively the question we need to raise is how can we find ways of living that are compatible with the natural world, support justice and fairness for humanity and future generations to come.’��

The table closed��with��the feeling I shared��from the very beginning –��by acknowledging��the privilege of being in this room, around this table and celebrate the opportunity of having these conversations. I am looking forward to hearing more��such��discussions��and what this��group of individuals go on to do in��materialising the legacy they want to leave behind.

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Overview of the Event

As organisations respond��to, resource constraints, evolving regulation and growing stakeholder��expectations within the built environment,��the challenge is no longer simply knowing��what��needs to change – but leading��how��change happens. In this introductory��webinar, UKGBC will explore the role of sustainability leadership in helping organisations navigate complexity, influence decision-making, and turn ambitious commitments into meaningful action.��

Drawing on the unique challenges of the built environment,��we’ll��explore the leadership capabilities needed to accelerate sustainable change.��Whether or not you hold a formal leadership position, the ability to influence others, navigate complexity, challenge��established��ways of thinking,��and bring people with you has become an essential sustainability capability.��Sustainability leadership is about creating the conditions for change��in complex environments.��

This��webinar��provides an introduction to��the principles of sustainability leadership and the themes explored through UKGBC’s wider development programmes.��Whether��you’re��building your leadership capability or already influencing organisational strategy, this session will help you��understand��the mindsets, skills,��and behaviours needed to lead with greater confidence and impact.��

Discover more of UKGBC’s leadership and sustainability work on the��UKGBC website.

By Attending You Will

• Understand why sustainability leadership is becoming a critical capability across the built environment.
• Recognise the mindsets, skills and behaviours that underpin effective sustainability leadership and drive change in complex projects, supply chains and stakeholder groups.
• Build confidence to influence and lead sustainability initiatives, whether or not you have formal leadership responsibility.
• Identify practical actions you can begin applying in your own role.

Who Should Attend?

This webinar is designed for professionals who want to strengthen their ability to lead sustainability and drive change, both within and outside of a formal leadership role. Whether you’re leading projects, influencing strategy, or helping shape organisational culture, this session will provide a practical introduction to the leadership capabilities needed to help transform the built environment.

It may be particularly beneficial to:

• Senior leaders and executives in real estate, construction, engineering, architecture, infrastructure and property management organisations.
• Sustainability, ESG and net zero professionals looking to strengthen their influence and engage leadership teams more effectively.
• Strategy, transformation and business development professionals seeking to embed sustainability into organisational decision-making and long-term planning.
• Directors, managers and team leads responsible for operational performance, risk management, innovation or organisational culture change.
• Consultants, advisors and client-facing professionals supporting organisations in sustainability, ESG, climate action and business transformation.
• Public sector, local authority and housing sector professionals working to deliver sustainability commitments and drive change across complex stakeholder environments.

LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP STRATEGIC PARTNERS

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What legacy does Starmer’s government leave behind for our sector?

One of the clearest successes was the publication of the Warm Homes Plan – the first long‑term national strategy of its kind, and something UKGBC and industry have long called for. With £15bn committed this Parliament, the plan finally set out a coherent approach to tackling fuel poverty, scaling heat pumps, expanding rooftop solar, and supporting low‑income households – but Starmer has stepped down just before the most important phase: delivery. The next government must build on this strong strategic platform, embedding real‑world lessons from local authorities, community groups and place‑based pilots, and ensuring resilience is not treated as an optional extra.

The Future Homes and Buildings Standard was another milestone. Starmer’s government chose the more ambitious option: no new gas boilers, mandatory rooftop solar, and improved energy efficiency for new homes. This shift will cut emissions from new build homes by around 75% and gives industry long‑awaited certainty. It’s a strong foundation, but there is more to do. Developers are already building to higher standards, and Burnham’s government will need to build on this momentum to close the gap on climate resilience, embodied carbon and long‑term affordability.

The Planning Bill passed, and the first update to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) made welcome improvements: stronger support for Local Plans, better design guidance, and encouragement of higher‑density development on brownfield land. But the reforms didn’t fully rise to the scale of the climate and nature crises. Climate, nature and community resilience still risk being treated as add‑ons rather than core principles. And the response to the latest NPPF consultation wasn’t completed before Starmer’s departure, leaving the new administration with the chance to provide clarity for local authorities and strengthen the planning systems role in delivering high‑quality, climate‑ready places.

Starmer’s government made meaningful progress on housing quality. The Renters’ Rights Bill, extension of Awab’s Law to the private rented sector, and reforms to the Decent Homes Standard will all strengthen protections for tenants. Crucially, MEES were strengthened across both private and social rented homes, aligning standards and tackling fuel poverty more consistently. The reform of the EPC system was another overdue improvement, moving toward multiple metrics and better alignment with modern policy priorities. Taken together, these reforms represent one of the most comprehensive boosts to housing quality in recent years.

For non‑domestic buildings, the long‑awaited uplift to MEES finally arrived: commercial buildings over 1,000m² must reach EPC B by 2031. After six years of delay, this announcement addressed a major uncertainty for industry and takes a significant step toward decarbonising commercial stock, but the job is not done yet. Burnham’s government should build on this progress, with in-use performance measurement and reporting, as well as measures like practical support for SME decarbonisation.

Despite welcome progress on retrofit and energy efficiency, Starmer’s government left a major gap on climate resilience. The CCC’s adaptation reports were unequivocal: the UK is not adapting fast enough, and action on resilience remains under‑resourced, under‑funded and fragmented. UKGBC’s Climate Resilience Roadmap sets out exactly what needs to change — clearer accountability, smarter investment, and integration of resilience across planning, building standards and retrofit. But national policy has yet to catch up. The Warm Homes Plan made a start with a nod to year-round comfort, but the UK still lacks a comprehensive adaptation strategy capable of protecting communities, buildings and infrastructure from escalating climate risks. This is one of the clearest opportunities for Burnham to accelerate progress.

Starmer’s government made a promising start on circular economy by commissioning a special task force, and on embodied carbon by responding to the AECOM report. However, we are yet to see the circular economy strategy, and there has been no further steps taken to regulate embodied carbon – leaving the new government with a well-defined area where further action could unlock major whole-life sustainability benefits for our sector.

For now, starmer’s legacy is a reminder that intent is not the same as action.”

The past two years have shown that high-level strategy can take shape quickly, but real-world delivery takes time. Industry is ready to invest, innovate and deliver, but only when government sets a stable course. As Burnham makes some welcome cabinet appointments and starts with promising policy interventions to address the cost of living by reducing the cost of electricity, the UKGBC policy team will be watching closely and preparing an analysis of what this new era means for our sector.

For now, Starmer’s legacy is a reminder that intent is not the same as action: his government established the right direction, made meaningful progress across many parts of the built environment, and leaves Burnham with a strong foundation to turn ambition into the tangible outcomes our homes and places urgently need.

Policy & Advocacy

Since 2007, we have been bringing together some of the most influential leaders in politics, business, local authorities, civil service and NGOs to accelerate action for a green built environment.

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Thank you to UKGBC’s policy partners for supporting our advocacy work this year.

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Homes shape the places around us: influencing our health, our connection to community, our access to nature, our energy use and our resilience to a changing climate. As the UK works to meet housing demand while responding to climate change and biodiversity loss, regenerative approaches to new housing and retrofit can help create healthier communities, restore nature and generate long-term local value.

UKGBC’s Regenerative Places Framework for Housing has been developed to support this shift from within our current system. Developed through engagement with a wide range of stakeholders across the built environment and beyond, the Framework sets out the key transitions needed, where and how projects can create long term local value, and the pathways to embed these approaches.

At this launch event, UKGBC will introduce the Framework and its core principles, share learning from the engagement process that shaped it, and hear from practitioners who are already applying regenerative approaches in real-world projects.

Speakers

• Steve Sze – Associate Director, Lloyds
• Carl Walker – Head of Societal Insights, Hoare Lea
• Natasha Watson – Climate Emergency Change Manager, Buro Happold
• Deepika Kanthavara Madhava – Project Lead (Built Environment), Somers Town
• Joanna Conceicao – Director (Sustainable Design), Savills Earth
• Miles Lewis – Director of Sustainability, Clarion Housing Group

Who Is It For?

This event is ideal for designers, housebuilders, investors, local government and place-makers looking to ensure regenerative thinking is embedded within their work.

*This is a members-only event. Up to two people per organisation can attend.

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The CCC has made the challenge plain: the UK must adapt faster or face mounting threats to people, places and the economy. UKGBC’s Climate Resilience Roadmap shows how that shift can be made in practice, with joined-up action across the built environment and government. The challenge is serious, but it is not beyond us if we choose to act now.”

The Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) latest assessment of climate risk is a clear and urgent signal that the UK must accelerate adaptation now. Climate impacts are already being felt across the country, and the report makes plain that higher temperatures, flooding, drought and cascading infrastructure risks will intensify unless government, business and communities act at pace. UKGBC strongly welcomes the CCC’s focus on practical, evidence-based action, and the emphasis on clear targets, delivery plans and accountability.

This message echoes what UKGBC has been saying through our Climate Resilience Roadmap, which sets out how the built environment can move from awareness of climate risk to assessment, prioritisation and implementation. We have long argued that resilience cannot sit in isolation: it must be integrated with decarbonisation, nature, health and wellbeing, and long-term value. The CCC’s report reinforces that approach, particularly in relation to homes, infrastructure, public services, and the need to protect the most vulnerable.

On the built environment, the CCC highlights the need for new buildings to be fit for a changing climate, for existing homes and assets to be retrofitted and upgraded, for better preparedness, and for cooling and water resilience to be addressed at scale. UKGBC’s Climate Resilience Roadmap supports exactly this shift: from broad ambition to the practical, site, portfolio, and community-level decisions needed to reduce risk and deliver more resilient places.

For industry, the message is straightforward. Climate resilience needs to become a core part of investment, design, planning, procurement and asset management. That means acting now on heat risk, flood risk, water scarcity and infrastructure interdependencies, and using the tools, standards and methods already available to make adaptation routine rather than exceptional.

For government, the priority is equally clear. The CCC sets out the case for stronger objectives, measurable targets, delivery plans and monitoring, backed by regulation, standards and investment. UKGBC support this direction and would add that policy must enable joined-up action across departments and sectors, so that resilience measures are not delivered piecemeal. Planning policy, building standards, infrastructure development, and funding programmes all need to reflect the climate risks we already face, and the more severe future risks that are now unavoidable.

There is a strong case for greater emphasis on nature-based solutions, passive cooling, flood risk management and long-term asset maintenance, all of which can deliver resilience and wider co-benefits. The CCC’s analysis shows that many adaptation actions are cost-effective today, and that delay only increases cost and harm. UKGBC believes this should galvanise a shift in both mindset and delivery: adaptation is no longer a future issue, but an immediate investment in safety, wellbeing and economic stability.

The CCC’s report and UKGBC’s Climate Resilience Roadmap both make the same case: adaptation needs to move from principle to practical delivery. The UK needs clear leadership, practical delivery and sustained investment to create a well-adapted built environment. The opportunity here is to reduce harm, protect lives and livelihoods, and create places that resilient, inclusive and fit for the climate reality we are already entering.

UK Climate Resilience Roadmap

This Roadmap sets out a vision for a climate resilient built environment, sharing clear recommendations for the industry and policy, and next steps needed to increase the climate resilience of our built environment.

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Policy & Advocacy

Since 2007, we have been bringing together some of the most influential leaders in politics, business, local authorities, civil service and NGOs to accelerate action for a green built environment.

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