{"id":86551,"date":"2020-12-15T09:52:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T09:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=86551"},"modified":"2020-12-15T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T09:52:18","slug":"lendlease-zero-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/lendlease-zero-carbon\/86551\/","title":{"rendered":"Lendlease lays out roadmap to &#8216;Absolute Zero Carbon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lendlease.com\/uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lendlease<\/a> has released its &#8216;Roadmap to Absolute Zero Carbon&#8217;, which sets out how the business will achieve those targets in Europe<\/h2>\n<p>Lendlease has set itself challenging environmental targets, including a commitment to becoming a 1.5\u00b0C aligned company and achieving absolute zero carbon by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Nations<\/a> has described climate change as the defining crisis of our time and no corner of the globe is immune from its devastating consequences. Rising temperatures lead to environmental degradation, natural disasters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/national-flood-map\/68055\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weather extremes<\/a>, food and water insecurity and economic conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The built environment is responsible for contributing approximately 40% of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/carbon-emissions-from-buildings\/84234\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">global carbon emissions<\/a> and Lendlease has recognised that, in order to minimise the impact of climate change on livelihoods and ecosystems around the world, global temperatures must be prevented from rising above 1.5\u00b0C compared to pre-industrial times.<\/p>\n<p>The company has already taken a number of steps to prioritise action to address climate change across its business.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019 Lendlease Europe signed the Better Buildings Partnership\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.betterbuildingspartnership.co.uk\/node\/877\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate Change Commitment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year Lendlease has already become one of the first companies to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theclimategroup.org\/steelzero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SteelZero<\/a>, a global initiative aimed at driving market demand for net-zero steel. Lendlease Europe also signed up to the World Green Building Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldgbc.org\/thecommitment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment<\/a>, challenging businesses to reach net-zero carbon in operation for buildings under their control.<\/p>\n<h3>The roadmap includes:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Eliminating the use of diesel on Lendlease construction sites and trialling alternative technologies and fuels.<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring that all the electricity Lendlease procures is REGO-backed (Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin certificates) from clean renewable sources (e.g. solar, tidal, wind, not energy from waste).<\/li>\n<li>Working in partnership with the Lendlease supply chain, from material extraction through to manufacturing and delivery, and delivering a sustainability-focused supply chain conference.<\/li>\n<li>Developing a new generation of \u2018green leases\u2019 across the company\u2019s commercial, retail and residential operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lendlease\u2019s chief executive officer in Europe, Neil Martin, said: \u201cSetting targets is important, but it is how we deliver against those targets that really matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our roadmap to absolute zero, we recognise that this is not going to be an easy task and that we don\u2019t yet have all the answers, but it is vital that we take action and we are committed to doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The roadmap to Absolute Zero Carbon can be read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lendlease.com\/better-places\/roadmap-to-absolute-zero-carbon\/-\/media\/fa3122e752024a22b1e61bc08bf8972a.ashx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (15 December) Lendlease has released its Roadmap to Absolute Zero Carbon, which sets out how the business will achieve those targets in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[594,277,693,676,908,430,673,279,701,465],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-energy-news","7":"tag-building-design","8":"tag-built-environment","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-construction","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-energy-efficiency","13":"tag-energy","14":"tag-environment","15":"tag-supply-chain","16":"tag-sustainable-construction"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lendlease lays out roadmap to &#039;Absolute Zero Carbon&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Today (15 December) Lendlease has released its Roadmap to Absolute Zero Carbon, which sets out how the business will achieve those targets in Europe\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/lendlease-zero-carbon\/86551\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lendlease lays out roadmap to &#039;Absolute Zero Carbon&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today (15 December) Lendlease has released its Roadmap to Absolute Zero Carbon, which sets out how the business will achieve those targets in Europe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/lendlease-zero-carbon\/86551\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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