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Tag : Climate Change
Sep 17th 2024
Building Energy Resilience on Ukraine’s Dnipro River

As a member of Ro3kvit - a coalition of professionals who have united to create knowledge and methodologies for rebuilding Ukraine’s urban and rural areas and infrastructure - IES...

Aug 26th 2024
Heat Networks & HNTAS: Bringing the Heat

Amidst growing climate change concerns, the United Kingdom finds itself at a pivotal moment in its heating landscape. At present, heating our buildings makes up nearly a quarter...

Aug 1st 2024
Earth Overshoot Day 2024: Buildings Sector Must Step Up to #MoveTheDate

Today, 1st August 2024, marks this year’s Earth Overshoot Day. The day of the year on which humanity’s demand on nature exceeds the Earth’s annual biological capacity to...

Jul 25th 2024
Climate Change Committee Progress Report: When will we learn?

The latest Climate Change Committee Progress Report was released last week, and revealed some depressing yet not surprising findings. Yet again the UK is falling behind on...

Jul 15th 2024
Embodied carbon vs operational carbon: reducing building emissions

With the global building stock expected to double by 2050, the built environment has an important role to play in reaching net zero goals. Carbon emissions produced during...

Jul 11th 2024
Net-Zero Week UK - How do we take action?

This week marks Net-Zero Week, the UK’s official national awareness week and biggest net-zero conference. Running for the 4th consecutive year, its aim is to highlight the...

May 10th 2024
Don McLean in Energy Manager: With major targets scrapped, what’s next for net zero – and what does it really mean in 2024?

IES CEO Don McLean is featured in this month's Energy Manager Magazine, with an article discussing the recent scrapping of the Scottish government’s net-zero targets and what it...

Jan 11th 2024
Ben Pettitt in Build in Digital: Maybe it's time for office landlords to go home

IES’ Ben Pettitt recently featured in Build in Digital, with an article discussing how landlords can make use of existing design, energy compliance or BIM models to convert vacant...

Dec 15th 2023
COP28: We must move faster to decarbonise the built environment

As COP28 negotiations closed and a deal was agreed, it was difficult not to have mixed feelings on the UAE Consensus. While many hailed the ‘landmark’ deal to move away from...

Dec 11th 2023
BERDO 2.0: Decarbonizing Boston

As part of its 2019 Climate Action Plan strategy and following suit from Local Law 84 (LL84) in New York City, the City of Boston introduced an ordinance applying energy...

Dec 6th 2023
Urbanisation and the Built Environment takes centre stage at COP28: Join us in sharing your building performance success stories

As COP28 unfolds, a key thematic focus of today’s proceedings will be Urbanisation and the Built Environment, an area which we know represents huge untapped potential for driving...

Oct 23rd 2023
IES signs up to support MEP 2040 Challenge

IES has officially signed up as a supporter of the MEP 2040 challenge. Initiated by the Carbon Leadership Forum, the challenge aims to eliminate embodied carbon in mechanical,...

Sep 27th 2023
Aligning building strategies to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Since they were established in 2015, more than 10,000 companies, most national governments and thousands of investors have pledged to support the UN’s Sustainable Development...

Sep 12th 2023
Decarb NY: Local Law 97 Compliance

Ahead of our attendance and sponsorship at the Companies for Net Zero’s Decarb New York 2023 event on the 14th September, we at IES have been discussing how companies can utilise...

Sep 7th 2023
The Future of Energy: Unlocking the Potential of Heat Networks

District heat networks have a vital role to play in a net-zero future. The Times Future of Energy report, released earlier this summer, featured some interesting insights on the...

Aug 8th 2023
Energy security concerns are at a high – but solutions can’t come at the cost of our net zero goals

Energy security has understandably risen higher on the agenda in recent years, after successive political and economic pressures culminated in full scale global energy crisis. IES...