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Navigating environmental challenges in 2025: sustainability, innovation, and collaboration in the built environment
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Navigating environmental challenges in 2025: sustainability, innovation, and collaboration in the built environment
13 March 2025
In 2025, environmental challenges in development will focus on sustainability, biodiversity, air quality, water management, and decarbonisation, requiring collaboration and innovative solutions to meet ambitious policies and targets.
Editorial Team
In 2025, the built and natural environments will face key challenges driven by transformative policies and ambitious goals.
The UK's biodiversity net gain (BNG) regulations, along with Europe's Nature Restoration Regulation, emphasise sustainability in development, requiring biodiversity integration and ecosystem restoration.
Air quality, flood risk, water scarcity, and biodiversity compliance will be central issues, with governments pushing for cleaner, greener urban spaces.
Developers must navigate financial challenges, inconsistent policy interpretations, and rising environmental standards.
A holistic approach to housing, decarbonisation, and collaboration between developers, policymakers, and consultants will be essential for meeting these challenges.
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