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COP26: Big names urge world leaders to decarbonise built environment
More than 200 businesses and groups have backed a report calling on world leaders to radically reduce the greenhouses gases produced by the built environment
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Allford: ‘Support our urgent message to governments ahead of COP26’
RIBA president Simon Allford has called on practices to mobilise behind a major built environment report published by the institute and Architects Declare ahead of next month’s global climate summit
Lords committee is asking the wrong questions about housing demand
An inquiry into the UK’s housing stock is focused on economic growth rather than housing need or the climate emergency – but we can put them straight, says Smith Mordak
Modernism is ‘really sexy, but problematic’, AJ Summit hears
Modern architecture is ‘really, really sexy’ but fundamentally based on carbon-intensive construction and operation, according to a leading speaker at last week’s AJ Summit
Watch again: Over 20 sessions from the AJ Summit free to view
All 22 sessions held during this week’s AJ Summit can now be viewed again for free
More top speakers to address this week’s AJ Summit
Leading figures from British Land, the LSE and the Committee on Climate Change will join the likes of Haworth Tompkins and US-based MASS Design Group in speaking at this Thursday’s AJ Summit
AJ Summit 2021 speakers revealed
The programme has been revealed for a free AJ event focusing on how architects and others can ‘build back better’ in the wake of Covid 19
AJ Climate Champions podcast – Maria Smith: ‘It’s depressing how much architects are the problem’
Hosted by AJ sustainability editor Hattie Hartman, Climate Champions is a new podcast from the AJ
Weekend roundup: Architects look to home-working as coronavirus spreads
This week’s top stories reviewed by the AJ’s Simon Aldous: Coronavirus prompts increase in home-working • Government swings a wrecking ball at retrofit • Resurgence in council housing • Parliamentary refurb in doubt • Grenfell inquiry ‘horsemeat’ allegation • Call to boycott housing competition