UK net-zero strategy "totally lacking in ambition" say architects

The UK's strategy for achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 "does not go far enough" and ignores embodied carbon according to the RIBA and other industry groups.
More funding plus regulations to establish embodied carbon targets are needed, they say.
RIBA president Simon Allford said the proposals are "overshadowed by the lack of adequate funding and the absence of vital embodied carbon targets for new buildings."
The plans "fall far short of the action needed to realise the objective of net