One of London’s most iconic sites, the Piccadilly Lights, played host to Race to Zero’s One Year Anniversary video. It’s a video that celebrates the progress and continued momentum of the world’s largest alliance of non-state actors credibly committed to halving emissions by 2030.
The Lights have been one the capital city’s most striking features for over a century – advertising some of the world’s biggest names and brands. The Climate Champions are therefore proud and honoured to see our campaign in lights, showing the world that the race to a cleaner, tastier, healthier and safer world is truly on!
Managed by the UK’s largest commercial property development and investment company, Landsec, the site is visible to 100 million people who pass through Piccadilly Circus every year.
But it’s not just its stellar iconicism that the Climate Champions are excited about. As a member of Race to Zero, Landsec embodies the vision of a net zero world. Over the course of the next decade, the company is on course to reduce its absolute carbon emissions by 70% from a 2013/14 baseline.
Landsec, which manages a portfolio of £10.8 billion, covering 23.5 million sq ft, in 2016 became the first commercial real estate company in the world to have its carbon emission target approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative, and in 2019 it aligned its targets to a 1.5oC scenario. As a result, this year it has already reduced its carbon emissions by 42%.
To become a net zero carbon business Landsec is following five actions, that include:
To find out more about Landsec’s progress in the Race to Zero, please go to: Net Zero Carbon Pathways document.
As part of the Youth Fellowship programme, the new fellows will help mobilise climate action amongst non-state actors to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, in close collaboration with the UNFCCC, the Marrakech Partnership and the COP Presidencies.
From bustling urban landscapes of the U.S., to vibrant communities in Mexico, Brazil, Germany, and beyond, discover the ambitious initiatives undertaken by cities in the Race to Zero campaign under Cities Race to Zero.
With five months until COP28, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion from the COP28 Presidency, H.E Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak has told stakeholders at an event in Dubai on Monday they must promote collective climate action.
The UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and the Dubai Chambers invite you to an event aimed at mobilising climate action in the UAE ahead of COP28.
