4: Building Talks... Net Zero - Episode 4: Views from COP26 – industry leaders on the mood in Glasgow

The fourth episode of our Building Talks Net Pero podcast series has a selection of interviews recorded in Glasgow during the COP26 climate conference. This week Building’s reporter Tom Lowe speaks to construction attendees in the ‘Green Zone’ of COP26 for the Cities, Regions & Built Environment Day, including Gregor Craig, Skanska UK chief executive, and Hannah Vickers, Mace's chief of staff.   We also hear from Alastair Mant, director of business transformation at the UKGBC, Steve Fernandez, director at Arup and 26-year-old Sarah Linnell, sustainability engineer at Cundall, who co-chaired at Construction Leadership Council event at COP26 after winning a competition to hear younger voices in the industry.    Our regular jargon buster session with Simon Wyatt, partner at Cundall, this time focuses how the industry assesses embodied and whole life carbon. He explains what can be missing in our assessments and why the Greenhouse Gas Protocol is useful. To get in touch with the show go to: Twitter: @BuildingNews, Email: [email protected]. We'd love to know how you are working towards net zero on your project. For more news and analysis go to www.building.co.uk. Hosted by Building’s editor Chloe McCulloch with Elizabeth Hopkirk, assistant editor at Building Design. Audio production by Tariq Aziz. 

Om Podcasten

The Building Talks Net Zero series, brought to you by the team at http://Building.co.uk, will feature influencers and disrupters who are key to finding solutions to the climate emergency. In the year the UK hosts COP26, the biggest ever climate change conference, the construction industry is focused on the carbon agenda like never before. Each of our guests will bring their unique perspective on the challenges ahead, how to tackle them and most importantly how to affect real change. This series will be co-hosted by Building’s editor Chloe McCulloch and Building Design’s assistant editor Elizabeth Hopkirk. As well as in-depth interviews each week, Chloe and Elizabeth will be joined by Simon Wyatt, sustainability partner at Cundall to unpick some net zero jargon and sort the greenwash from tangible action.