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20 Jun 2024
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LI Webinar: Reducing landscape carbon

As we move towards a net zero world the way we design and manage our landscapes and cityscapes will need to change. We will need to use materials created with limited or no greenhouse gas emissions and find innovative ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

So, what is the role of landscape architects in creating low-carbon landscapes, and what work is required to meet the demands of net zero?

In this webinar, using the research undertaken to advise the Landscape and Carbon Report, landscape architect and author Claire Thirlwall CMLI will explore those questions.

Landscape and Carbon is a vital new report on carbon reduction in the UK landscape sector by the Landscape Institute (LI) and the British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI). The report is a call to action for the entire landscape sector, and wider industry, to work together and use its combined skill and expertise to reduce carbon in landscape schemes and works.

Speakers

Claire Thirlwall

Claire Thirlwall is a Chartered Landscape Architect and Director of Thirlwall Associates, a landscape architecture consultancy based in South Oxfordshire. She has been involved in the design, planning, and implementation of a wide range of landscape projects in the private and public sector. Since 2005 Claire has worked as an Expert Adviser to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, advising on landscape scale projects across the UK. She writes extensively on landscape architecture and sustainability.
Her book “From Idea to Site: a project guide to creating better landscapes” was published by RIBA Publishing in 2020.

Sian Berkley

Sian recently joined LDA as the company’s Sustainability Manager following three years within the contract furniture industry. Sian has contributed to the evolving cultural change in the company, helping to bring business purpose to the forefront, ensuring it is enacted throughout each corner of the company. Championing an outcomes-led approach, LDA are focusing on how to enact and measure impact to communities and the environment. Her approach to sustainability is grounded in transparency and continual improvement, with the aim of supporting and encouraging people to learn. As well as the creation and management of the company Climate Action plan, using her experience of Life Cycle Assessments, she is driving the development of an internal process on embodied carbon calculations using the Climate Positive Design Tool’s pathfinder – one piece in the wider jigsaw of LDA’s work regarding climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience.

Stephen Duse

Stephen is the Operations Manager for Hardscape, the UK’s leading Employee-Owned hard landscaping materials supplier, overseeing the practical operations of the company whilst maintaining Safety, Ethical, Legal, and Environmental compliance. Stephen is particularly focused on environmental impacts, sustainability, and developing the industry knowledge and use of Environmental Product Declarations. He passionately believes in identifying the truth and accuracy of EPD and Embodied Carbon data. Stephen has created his own methods and tools to compare hard landscaping materials with a Whole Life and Whole Project perspective. He has worked with the Landscape Institute, Architects, Suppliers, and Clients to ensure transparency and understanding of this information across the Landscaping sector.