Episode Five - Munish Datta
What role should the built environment play when ensuring green recovery? In the fifth episode of our podcast series, Designing with Climate in Mind, Jon Khoo talks to Munish Datta, from the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC). Having played a key role in designing and implementing Marks & Spencer’s award-winning Plan A sustainability strategy, and as a member of faculty at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), Munish is one of the UK’s leading experts when it comes to corporate environmental responsibility. In this episode, the pair discuss the UKGBC’s current projects and lobbying, the responsibility of the construction industry to reduce its carbon emissions and the power of cross-sector collaboration. Munish and Jon also reflect on how current conversations around racial injustice and the issue of diversity represent both a significant challenge and important opportunity for the construction industry and beyond. Time codes09.00 - The role of the UKGBC25.48 - Discussion of embodied carbon28.28 - Carbon offsetting and a zero-carbon economy32.44 - Reflection on the lock down period42.39 - Race diversity and inclusion in the built environment Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.