This is the kind of integrated thinking that London Climate Action Week is all about: turning good intentions into infrastructure that actually works.
Climate Action in Practice
23 Jun 26
London Climate Action Week is taking place this week, bringing together businesses, communities and policymakers from across the city and beyond. This year’s theme is moving from ambition to action: not just setting climate goals, but finding practical ways to meet them.
For those of us working in the built environment, that challenge is very real. How do you make a project genuinely sustainable, so that it feels integral to the scheme rather than treated as an afterthought?
A recent visit to Tipping Point East, the UK’s first circular economy hub in East London, offered an encouraging answer. The site brings together three interconnected operations: one that sources and resells reclaimed building materials at 10–50% of their original cost; one that redirects surplus materials from museums and galleries to community groups; and a working office built entirely from reclaimed materials sourced across 20 London sites. Over five years, it is expected to divert at least 950 tonnes of materials from landfill. What makes it stand out is that it is not just an environmental project; it is rooted in its community, with benefits and skills flowing directly back into the local area in Newham.
This is the kind of integrated thinking that London Climate Action Week is all about: turning good intentions into infrastructure that actually works.
As sustainability specialists working within planning, this is exactly the kind of opportunity we help clients identify and act on, whether that is improving resource efficiency, reducing energy demand, addressing circular economy and embodied carbon requirements, or finding practical ways for sustainability to be embedded from the outset.
If you have a project coming up and want to explore what a more sustainable approach could look like in practice, we would love to discuss it with you.
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