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Analysis: When the climate crisis and the energy crisis hit home
While the cost of energy to heat and cool UK homes soars, progress in driving energy-efficient retrofit and adaptation of homes to our changing climate has been slow, writes Josephine Smit.
Opinion: Adapt places and buildings for the climate damage that's now inevitable
Our combined response to the climate emergency is too little, too late to prevent serious negative impacts, so we need to be working on adaptation, writes Chris Brown.
Opinion: We need better data about the performance of cities to drive climate action
Cities have a key part to play in combatting climate change and data can help highlight their individual challenges and provide the catalyst for tackling them, writes Alexis Haass.
Advice: Creating water-efficient housing development
With increasing water shortages, planners need to negotiate for developers of new housing to install water-efficient appliances and rainwater harvesting systems, finds Ben Kochan.
Case study: Redeveloping a city site into a net-zero workplace
Developer Quadrum has set ultra-high sustainability targets for its redevelopment of a tired 1950s office building in London's Victoria.
Coming up: Green light for Shrewsbury homes
Council housing company is to deliver 105 ultra-energy efficient homes alongside plots for custom and self builders.
Advice: Promoting use of electric vehicles
With a growing number of electric vehicles being sold, councils need to expand charging infrastructure using their own sites and on streets, finds Ben Kochan.
Opinion: The three megatrends that could redefine placemaking
Policy shifts and social and climate realities may have implications for businesses that have prospered in the environment of the last few years, writes Chris Brown.
Case study: Boosting biodiversity alongside housebuilding
Provision of a country park at the new Trumpington Meadows neighbourhood in Cambridge has been good for biodiversity, residents and developers. Josephine Smit finds out how the park delivers.
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