This online session wraps up and celebrates our year-long series of Collaboration Café’s on climate resilience.  

With the aim of disseminating insights from UKGBC members from across the UK, we’ll discuss the findings from the five cafe events sharing how each café host region (London & South East, South West,  Midlands, North West and, finally, Glasgow, Scotland) differ in terms of climate resilience and adaptation.  

In a similar fashion to the cafes, this session will enable open discussion and knowledge sharing, deep collaboration and lively debate. There’ll be opportunities to discuss the findings with colleagues across industry and the UK.  

We’ll celebrate the work we’ve done together on climate resilience and discuss next steps – including UKGBC’s Climate Resilience Roadmap. 

Why join?  

• Unpack learnings from UKGBC’s cross-regional collaboration cafes on climate resilience 
• Understand the distinct regional contexts of climate resilience and adaptation across the UK 
• Learn more about UKGBC’s work on climate resilience and opportunities to get involved 
• Meet and network with peers from across the industry 

Who should join?  

This event is of particular interest for UKGBC members who attended (or registered for) one of our Climate Resilience Collaboration Cafes, and any members who have a keen interested in resilience and climate adaptation who wish to explore the insights brought by our regional Cafes.  

Attendance is free for UKGBC members. Non-members are welcome to join the session for a cost for £40.  

Events hosts  

This event will be hosted by Collaboration Café hosts Hannah Giddings (Head of Resilience and Nature, UKGBC) and Macarena Cardenas (Advisor, Resilience and Nature, UKGBC).  

About our Climate Resilience Collaboration Cafes  

UKGBC has run its a second series of Collaboration Café events, this time across the UK. This was upon member request to continue hosting opportunities for open knowledge sharing and collaboration.  

This time the cafes focussed on climate resilience within the industry, as part of the bigger goals of our Climate Resilience and Nature Programme, convening built environment organisations in person and bi-monthly to share insights about the practicalities, implications, and challenges of creating climate resilient business and built environment. 

This series brought together groups of UKGBC members across our Local Area Networks, and heard from the wider geographical scope of members within the UK, while convening a diverse multidisciplinary group. 

Why are we focusing on Resilience for the built environment? 

The climatic and environmental crises are the largest and interlinked threat to modern human existence, caused by our activities and actions. The impact inflicted is resulting in widespread and rapid and extreme weather events and global climatic changes in every region across the globe. For the built environment, this will have a consequential impact on our buildings, infrastructure, environment and way of life. 

Extreme weather is believed to be within the top ten risks that will present a material crisis at global scale in 2024 and the risk that will have the most severe impact on humankind in the next decade. It is of the essence that built environment organisations take a proactive approach towards creating a resilient world, tapping into the leading role already demonstrated to support the climatic crises. 

Therefore, we are calling all our members to support our ambition that “by 2030, all buildings and infrastructure will, throughout their lifetime, be climate-resilient and maximise environmental net gains, through the prioritisation of Nature-based Solutions”, and join us to this collaborative discussion and swift action.