As we start to emerge from lockdown, architects are now open for business again and the recent increase in job enquiries and opening of construction sites perhaps gives us all a reason to feel a bit more positive, writes Duncan Baker-Brown. However, before we get back to some new form of 'business as usual', think back to 2019 for a moment, to those pre-coronavirus days when all we had to worry about was Brexit. You may remember that there was another major issue that grabbed our attention: the climate and ecological emergency. It was the year that 90 per cent of UK local authorities pledged to be net zero-carbon by 2030. Around the world over 814,000,000 people now live in regions that have declared a climate emergency.
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