Posted by: Anne-Sophie Blin EMEA Upstream Sustainability Services A while ago, I found out about a research project led by the London School of Economics, called Mappiness. The purpose of this project is to gain data to explore how people’s happiness is affected by their local environment (e.g. air pollution, noise levels, green spaces). I [...]
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Olympics 2012 and what it means for London
Posted by: Katie Kopec Director, Development Consulting With under a week to go London is buzzing! With all the Olympic Nation’s flags flying in the streets, our roads adorned with Olympic symbols and the tubes covered in Olympic signage to guide the ever growing audience to their destinations, London and Londoners are ready for the greatest show [...]
Why we should welcome mandatory reporting of carbon emissions in the UK
Posted by: Anne-Sophie Blin EMEA Upstream Sustainability Services I attended a Defra consultation workshop a year ago on the potential introduction of mandatory carbon reduction in the UK and worked on Jones Lang LaSalle’s response to the UK government’s consultation. At the time, I had some doubts that this legislation would ever come about: it [...]
Rio+20 – Cities as Major Sustainability Players
Posted by: Dana Galiyeva, Consultant Upstream Sustainability Services One of the most successful events at Rio+20 was the side event on Leadership in Green Buildings, where Japan announced its initiative Future Cities We Want– an international platform for linking and spreading sustainable cities around the world to provide mutual support including capacity building for city [...]
BASE London 2012
Posted by: Matthew Tippett, Director EMEA Upstream Sustainability Services I was on the panel for a session entitled “Commercial Property - shape the debate – engagement, value and risk” at the conference BASE London on Thursday 21 June. The interactive session included delegate voting – where it emerged that 75% thought that building owners had the [...]