Breaking down and addressing the challenges posed by the decarbonisation agenda, our owner Derek Horrocks sat down with Construction News editor Colin Marrs in the first 2024 episode of the publication’s official podcast, ‘First Site’. Here, we’ve pulled out Derek’s salient points from the discussion, for which he was joined by chair of London’s Skills for a Sustainable Skyline Taskforce, Keith Bottomley, and Speedy Hire’s ESG director Amelia Woodley.
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Opening the talk, the onus was first put on the shift seen in the past few years around the importance of sustainability and net zero goals. While ten years ago sustainability was only a legal obligation, now all kinds of stakeholders from employees to investors are actively interested in climate change and our efforts to preventing it.