Are nature-based solutions the panacea for addressing climate change in urban and rural locations?
Natural climate solutions can provide up to one-third of the cost-effective climate mitigation needed by 2030 while also safeguarding livelihoods, natural ecosystems and biodiversity – what is the role of the real estate sector in advancing NBS?
CULS ESG Forum Chair: Ami Kotecha, Co-Founder, Amro Partners
Moderator: Jon Dearsley, Head of Natural Capital @ Savills
Jon Dearsley is a Director and joint head of Head of Natural Capital. Jon has significant experience in practical land management, particularly environmental delivery on in-hand and third-party land. Having created, implemented and managed a number of large-scale environmental land management schemes, Jon evaluates alternative uses of land for private and institutional landowners.
Jon advises clients on biodiversity net gain (site feasibility and marketing), nutrient neutrality and rural carbon emissions and sequestration with a particular interest in the medium and long-term management requirements.
Panellists:
Jason Pomeroy – Founder @ Pomeroy Studio
Prof. Jason Pomeroy is an award-winning architect, academic, author and TV presenter, regarded as one of the world’s thought leaders in sustainable design. He is the Founder of Singapore-based Pomeroy Studio, Jason Pomeroy Architects and Pomeroy Academy: sustainable urbanism, architecture, design, research and education firms. His career has included critically-acclaimed green cities, buildings and landscapes: from the microscale of the first zero-carbon house in Asia, to the macroscale of Indonesia’s ‘Silicon Valley’.
Pomeroy has authored Cities of Opportunities: Connecting Culture and Innovation (2020), Pod Off-Grid: Explorations into Low Energy Waterborne Communities (2016), The Skycourt and Skygarden: Greening the Urban Habitat (2014) and Idea House: Future Tropical Living Today (2011). He continues to raise cultural awareness of cities through his TV series Smart Cities 2.0, City Time Traveller, Futuropolis and City Redesign.
He gained Bachelor and Master degrees from the Canterbury School of Architecture and the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the University of Westminster.
Kelly Gunell – Principal Consultant – Nature-based Solutions @ Atkins, and Scientific Researcher at King’s College London
Jon Dearsley is a Director and joint head of Head of Natural Capital. Jon has significant experience in practical land management, particularly environmental delivery on in-hand and third-party land. Having created, implemented and managed a number of large-scale environmental land management schemes, Jon evaluates alternative uses of land for private and institutional landowners.
Jon advises clients on biodiversity net gain (site feasibility and marketing), nutrient neutrality and rural carbon emissions and sequestration with a particular interest in the medium and long-term management requirements.
Ocian Hamel-Smith, Spatial Architect & Creative Director @ Ocianic Studios
Ocian Hanel-Smith is a spatial architect & creative director at Ocianic Studios.
He is a multidisciplinary designer that focuses on spaces that create emotional experiences. His philosophy of design is how to curate space through various journeys and sensory experiences.
Ocian has been hired most recently the UNFCCC’s Resilience Frontiers to design a pavilion at COP27, creating a space for learning and lasting impact.
This event will be online and booking will be via the Savills link:https://savills.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kg32CHopR1aIl4KqeYDW2g
