As Tony Blair highlighted last week in his report The Climate Paradox, the climate conversation has stalled. Not for lack of science or solutions, but because we have politicised the issue. 

The UK, as it headed to the polls in local and mayoral elections last week, was a case in point. Climate action has become a battleground topic and there is a real risk it remains just that – a political football, not a shared responsibility.

But, while the politics play out, the clock keeps ticking and the construction sector – one of our biggest opportunities to drive climate progress – remains under-regulated and under-ambitious.