Evaluate all new projects against the aspiration to contribute positively to mitigating climate breakdown, and encourage our clients to adopt this approach. Share knowledge and research to that end on an open source basis. Establish climate and biodiversity mitigation principles as the key measure of our industry’s success: demonstrated through awards, prizes and listings.
Advocate for faster change in our industry towards regenerative design practices and a higher Governmental funding priority to support this. Raise awareness of the climate and biodiversity emergencies and the urgent need for action amongst our clients and supply chains. Recognising this, we are committing to strengthen our working practices to create architecture and urbanism that has a more positive impact on the world around us. The research and technology exist for us to begin that transformation now, but what has been lacking is collective will. Together with our clients, we will need to commission and design buildings, cities and infrastructures as indivisible components of a larger, constantly regenerating and self-sustaining system. Meeting the needs of our communities and staying within our ecological limits will require a shift in our behaviour as well as the design, delivery and performance of our buildings. Globally, buildings and construction play a major part, accounting for nearly 40% of energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions whilst also having a significant impact on our natural habitats. The twin crises of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss are the most serious issue of our time.
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