At Climate Action Week Sydney 2026, we’re tackling two key questions faced by urban communities navigating a rapidly changing world.
How do we bring sustainability into the mainstream of the built environment sector?
Building to zero: Making sustainability ‘normal’ in the built environment
Session 1: Follow the money: Investment & insurance
Session 2: Selling like hot cakes: Marketing & media
Date: Tuesday 10 March 2026
Time: 1:30 – 4:00 PM AEDT
Venue: UTS Balcony Room
We spend 90% of our time indoors. Buildings shape our daily lives yet sustainability remains outside the mainstream of the built environment sector, limited by political, social, and industry will. A much-need shift is not only possible, but necessary.
Join us for ‘Building to zero: Making sustainability ‘normal’ in the built environment’ as part of Climate Action Week Sydney.
In collaboration with University of Technology Sydney and EcoHus, we’ll explore how Australia’s built environment sector can build on its existing progress to drive the rapid and radical transition to net zero that is needed, looking at opportunities locally and globally.
This is an audience-led panel discussion consisting of two parts. In both of these sessions, we’ll be focusing on the cultural shift necessary to move sustainability from niche to normal in the built environment.
How do we strengthen community resilience in adapting to a 3°C+ world?
Generations in dialogue: Shared wisdom for urban liveability and adaptation in a 3°C+ world
Date: Wednesday 11 March 2026
Time: 1:30 – 3:30 PM AEDT
Venue: Max Webber Library, Blacktown
Australia is on track for 3°C or more of global heating – a reality which will fundamentally reshape urban life, community resilience, health outcomes, housing, infrastructure, and social cohesion.
Urban populations including young people, older residents, multicultural communities, renters will experience this transition unevenly. Strengthening community resilience therefore requires intergenerational dialogue, shared decision-making, and the integration of diverse worldviews.
Join us for ‘Generations in dialogue: Shared wisdom for urban liveability and adaptation in a 3°C+ world’ at Climate Action Week Sydney. Co-hosted with Blacktown City Council, we’ll discuss how cities can prepare socially, physically, culturally, and institutionally for a hotter and more uncertain future.
We’ll be hearing from expert panellists, then we’ll move into an interactive co-design workshop, where we’re looking for input from local government, academia, youth networks, community groups, and First Nation knowledge holders, on what climate-ready solutions look like in practice.