What do we mean by ‘net zero’ – and can we actually get there? 
 
Three experts in the field of sustainability took these questions to task on the fourth episode of Property Week’s Climate Crisis Challenge Podcast series with Carbon Intelligence, one of the campaign’s supporting partners. 
  
Blackstock Consulting’s Matilda Jacobs chaired the discussion with Jamie Oliver, senior consultant at Carbon Intelligence, Stanley Kwong, ESG associate director at Aviva Investors, and Tor Burrows, executive director of sustainability and innovation at Grosvenor. 
 
Beginning with a discussion around how to create a credible pathway to net zero, the guests also considered how best to collect data and measure impact. The conversation then moved on to evaluate tangible methods for real estate businesses to reduce their impact, including whether there should be a role for offsetting, and the challenges of retrofit and refurbishment. 
 
Listen to the full episode for wide-ranging insight into the mechanics and feasibility of reaching net zero within the real estate sector.

What do we mean by ‘net zero’ – and can we actually get there?

In our fifth episode of Property Week’s Climate Crisis Challenge Podcast series, UKGBC, Bennetts Associates and one of our supporting partners in this campaign, chapmanbdsp join Blackstock Consulting’s Andrew Teacher to look at the role engineering plays in helping us get to net zero and the potential for better, operational measurements to help properly benchmark performance. 

The broad-reaching discussion highlighted some recent standout projects as well as some of the failings of the current regulatory system. The group also set out how they think the private sector should respond to COP26 and why we cannot wait for governments to fix the problem for us.

Engineering in carbon – How do we avoid building in obsolescence?

Blackstock Consulting director Tom Roberts sat down with Jessica Tomlinson, head of real estate, London, Barclays, Rob Martin, strategy and ESG director at L&G Investment Management , and Maya Faerch, Senior Programme Manager in the Built Environment programme at the Laudes Foundation, to discuss how capital markets are rising to meet the challenge of climate change and whether all finance will be 'green finance' in the future.

How are capital markets shifting? Where is the money going?

What does it mean to deliver ‘social value’ – and how do we unlock it across the built environment?
 
Three experts in design and sustainability tackle these questions on the seventh episode of Property Week’s Climate Crisis Challenge Podcast series with Hawkins Brown, one of the campaign’s supporting partners. Blackstock Consulting’s Anna Beketov chaired the discussion with Darryl Chen, partner and urban design lead at Hawkins Brown, Eleanor Boyce, senior advisor for social values and place at the UK Green Building Council, and David Barrie, co-founder of several for-profit and non-profit ventures, including onRedchurch CIC.
 
In this episode, the guests define ‘social value’ and talk about how to unlock it across the built environment spectrum. The conversation then moved on to accessibility and creating social value in communities, as well as whether it ought to be a central concern in design and the issues with creating social value frameworks. The guests concluded with a discussion around social value’s relationship to ESG and wider sustainability metrics, and what should be demanded of governments on social value at the COP 26 climate conference in Glasgow over the coming weeks. 
 
Listen to the full episode for an insightful discussion on the relationship between social value, the built environment, and what it could mean for the future of sustainable design

Can buildings make people happy? Should they try? What is social value and why does it matter?

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