Ashden Awards 2020 Winners!
July, 2020 |
We are thrilled to have won the 2020 Ashden Award in the Sustainable Built Environment UK category. The award judges recognised the contribution our PH15 System can make, by reducing both the energy in use and the embodied energy, towards the zero carbon homes we need to be building now.
Ashden CEO Harriet Lamb said: “There’s growing momentum for a green recovery from coronavirus, one that escapes the failures of the past and propels us toward a low-carbon future. This new future is within our reach, as long as we back radical climate solutions.
Ashden is prestigious partly because it scrutinises applications extremely thoroughly to ensure winners demonstrate innovation, but also workable and scalable climate change solutions. Ashden is not so much a pat on the back as an invitation to join in a movement advocating for a rapid transition to a low carbon economy – with the focus on advocating with real solutions to hand. The need for change is so urgent – we must leave behind our business-as-usual mindsets that will only deliver an intensive carbon lock-in. We need to grasp the economic co-benefits of investment in low and zero carbon solutions – in new housing, in transport and in our natural world too. Capital is found in forms so much broader than pounds or euros. How about the capital of our health? Physical health, better air quality, and mental health from frequent engagement with the natural world. Properly valuing these broader outcomes would lead to wiser investment decisions. The governments announcements this week to spend again on business-as-usual, carbon intensive infra structure projects will slow any transition down, this represents another wasted opportunity. We now have less than ten years to change the way we live and travel and work.
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