This week on Dezeen, leading UK architects called on practices across the country to address the climate and biodiversity emergencies, and Foster + Partners led the charge by pledging to make all its buildings carbon-neutral by 2030.
Foster + Partners became the first architecture practice to sign up to the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment this week, promising that all its new buildings will be designed carbon-neutral by 2030.
The studio joins 23 cities in signing the commitment, including New York, London and Tokyo, in a bid to reduce the built environment's contribution to climate change.
Foster + Partners pledges to make its buildings carbon-neutral by 2030, like Bloomberg Headquarters
Shortly after the studio joined a whole host of Stirling Prize winning firms ? including Zaha Hadid Architects, AL_A and David Chipperfield Architects ? in declaring a climate and biodiversity emergency. Under the name of Architects Declare, the studios called on all UK architects to adopt a "shift in behaviour", and join them in designing buildings, cities and infrastructure with a more positive impact on the environment.
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