As world leaders convene for COP27, dubbed “the implementation COP”, councils across the UK are working to deliver a local response to the climate emergency. Building with Nature, the UK’s first green infrastructure benchmark, is supporting local authorities and industry in utilising GI to deliver on climate commitments.
Read MoreBuilding with Nature Assessor Sarah Jones-Morris, Director of Landsmith Associates offers valuable insights on how evidence-led Green Infrastructure strategies support public policy and local priorities?
Read MoreBuilding with Nature are launching a 1-day training course providing built and natural environment professionals with a comprehensive introduction to green infrastructure.
This new training course supports Building with Nature's call for UK developers and planners to value green infrastructure as critical infrastructure, delivering nature-based solutions that build climate resilience, levelling-up on community health and wellbeing, and securing biodiversity and nature recovery in development.
As a Professor in Environmental Geography at Northumbria University, Alister Scott is one of the UK’s leading experts with research focused on mainstreaming nature in policy and decision making where he has just completed three years working as a Natural Environment Research Council Fellow. We asked Professor Scott to share his views on the six lessons that governments and decision makers can take from his research.
Read MoreJayne Rogers, Environment Officer at Essex County Council explains how Essex developed a Building with Nature “Excellent” Green Infrastructure strategy.
Read MoreMarch 2020. We would like to reassure you that Building with Nature is still here and still open for business during this time. We are responding to our clients, customers and partners needs during the Covid-19 crisis and offering support where we can to continue to deliver high-quality places for people and wildlife.
Read MoreSoSustainable’s Building with Nature Assessor Carol Somper makes the case for prioritising the development of green infrastructure as we build back better from Covid-19.
Read MoreIn the May 2019 edition of the Town and Country Planning Association journal, guest editor Professor Alister Scott looks at ways to mainstream green infrastructure through the planning system. Read our article in the TCPA journal special edition: Mainstreaming Green Infrastructure.
Read MoreWe here from Dr Phoebe Carter, Approved Building with Nature Assessor and Chief Ecologist at Habitat First Group on why Building with Nature is more important than ever.
Read MoreWe hear from Gain Director Colette Beckham on becoming an approved assessor for Building with Nature.
Read MorePeople value living in places that are close to nature. As well as allowing wildlife to thrive, green infrastructure provides spaces for people to enjoy, and cost effective ways to manage water naturally and prevent flooding.
Read MoreCities in the UK are great places to live. But they also face challenges: congested roads, polluted air, hotter summers, and ageing infrastructure. And with local authority budgets being chopped, resources to sort out these problems are scarce. Building with Nature Director, Dr Gemma Jerome, asks ‘ will our cities be green cities?’.
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