Tag Archives: decarbonisation

The Carbon Trust, on ‘Accelerating access to clean, reliable and affordable energy’

How can communities and businesses across emerging economies harness the economic benefits of distributed renewable energy?

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IHBC’s ‘Practice’ CPD Signpost: Decarbonizing the Built Environment Through Heritage (DBTH) Toolkit

The Decarbonizing the Built Environment through Heritage Toolkit aims to support policymakers, practitioners, communities, and heritage advocates in accelerating the rapid uptake of heritage-informed decarbonization strategies through policy.

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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: £500m retrofit boost for UK universities as Lloyds partners with National Wealth Fund

The National Wealth Fund and Lloyds Banking Group announce major new financing initiative to retrofit universities across the UK.

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UKGBC calls for urgent action on retrofit and energy optimisation in new reports

UK Green Buildings Council’s (UKGBC) latest reports call for action to cut emissions from the UK’s commercial building stock through retrofit and energy optimisation.

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RICS and global partners launch CLEAR to align whole-life carbon reporting across built environment

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has launched the Coalition for Life Cycle Emissions Alignment and Reporting (CLEAR), a global initiative to harmonise the measurement and reporting of whole-life carbon emissions.

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IHBC’s ‘Professional’ CPD Signpost: The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (NZCBS), v.1 & consultation

image for illustration: Palace of Westminster from the dome on Methodist Central Hall, © User: Colin / Wikimedia Commons The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (NZCBS) is a voluntary standard, derived from ‘an unprecedented collaborative effort’, that is applicable to new … Continue reading

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IHBC’s ‘Intervention’ Signpost: HE on ‘Adapting Historic Buildings for Energy and Carbon Efficiency’

image for illustration: Becket’s Chapel by Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Historic England’s Advice Note 18 explores ‘Adapting Historic Buildings for Energy and Carbon Efficiency’.

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HE & ACE issue first parts of suite of guidance, templates and factsheets etc.

Arts Council England (ACE) and Historic England (HE) have launched online resources for their Cultural and Heritage Sector Decarbonisation Project Pilot, to ‘support cultural and heritage organisations responsible for historic buildings [to] better understand… decarbonisation plans.’

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