Architects are urging the government to engage with the profession over how it and the wider construction industry can tackle the climate emergency.

Pressure group Architects Declare issued a statement in response to yesterday’s landmark IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report which warned that global warming of 1.5–2°C would be exceeded this century – with catastrophic results – unless we make significant reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the coming decades.

Haworth Tompkins director Steve Tompkins, who co-founded Architects Declare in 2018 after a previous IPCC report in an attempt to change the mindset of practice, regulation and policy in the built environment, said: “[The latest IPCC] report once again hammers home the need to transition rapidly to a zero-carbon world to avoid the worst consequences of climate breakdown.

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