Matthew Morris
@matthew-morris.bsky.social
Architectural Technologist MCIAT · Circular Economy Built Environment Specialist · Author of the ACAN Circular Economy Design Guide · Committee Member, Drafting Standards at BSI B/558/1 · Low Carbon Manager at Galliford Try
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Circular Economy Design Guide * Architects Climate Action Network - ACAN!
Free Design Guide for the Circular Economy in the Built Environment that provides a comprehensive overview of how to design for a Circular Economy.
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I was asked recently for a resource on making the built environment more sustainable & future-proof. One I’m proud of & had the honour of leading — is ACAN’s Circular Economy Design Guide. Packed with diagrams, checklists & practical steps.
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#CircularEconomy 🌎
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#CircularEconomy 🌎
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▶️ WATCH: Ministers from Colombia and the Netherlands announce their joint Conference for the Phaseout of Fossil Fuels 🔥
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
▶️ WATCH: Ministers from Colombia and the Netherlands announce their joint Conference for the Phaseout of Fossil Fuels 🔥
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I couldn't agree more w/ my colleague Johan Rockström here:
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November 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I couldn't agree more w/ my colleague Johan Rockström here:
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Which countries are banning fossil fuel boilers?
EU governments must plan for a complete phase-out of fossil fuel boilers by 2040.
Many European countries are already well on their way.
Here's our latest overview:
ehpa.org/news-and-res...
EU governments must plan for a complete phase-out of fossil fuel boilers by 2040.
Many European countries are already well on their way.
Here's our latest overview:
ehpa.org/news-and-res...
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Which countries are banning fossil fuel boilers?
EU governments must plan for a complete phase-out of fossil fuel boilers by 2040.
Many European countries are already well on their way.
Here's our latest overview:
ehpa.org/news-and-res...
EU governments must plan for a complete phase-out of fossil fuel boilers by 2040.
Many European countries are already well on their way.
Here's our latest overview:
ehpa.org/news-and-res...
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NEW – Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP30? | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam
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November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
NEW – Analysis: Which countries have sent the most delegates to COP30? | @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam
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New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope.
According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope.
According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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When Site Waste Management Plans were scrapped in 2013, waste went up — not down.
📊 DEFRA data shows construction & demolition waste rose nearly 20% in just four years.
#CircularEconomy #WastePrevention #NetZero ##CircularEconomyTaskforce
📊 DEFRA data shows construction & demolition waste rose nearly 20% in just four years.
#CircularEconomy #WastePrevention #NetZero ##CircularEconomyTaskforce
October 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
When Site Waste Management Plans were scrapped in 2013, waste went up — not down.
📊 DEFRA data shows construction & demolition waste rose nearly 20% in just four years.
#CircularEconomy #WastePrevention #NetZero ##CircularEconomyTaskforce
📊 DEFRA data shows construction & demolition waste rose nearly 20% in just four years.
#CircularEconomy #WastePrevention #NetZero ##CircularEconomyTaskforce
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Daily Briefing: Renewables overtake coal | Conservatives’ climate fight | World’s heat records
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October 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Daily Briefing: Renewables overtake coal | Conservatives’ climate fight | World’s heat records
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A quarter of Europe’s climate losses since 1980 came in the last 3 years.
This summer added €43bn more. Impacts are accelerating faster than our systems — delay just shifts the cost onto people.
Policy and planning need to catch up — the delay just shifts the cost onto people, communities and gov!
This summer added €43bn more. Impacts are accelerating faster than our systems — delay just shifts the cost onto people.
Policy and planning need to catch up — the delay just shifts the cost onto people, communities and gov!
The impact of climate chaos on the global economy is coming into focus. In this case data from the EU:
"Weather and climate-related extremes caused economic losses of assets estimated at EUR 738B between 1980-2023 in the EU, with over EUR 162B (22%) of those losses occurring between 2021 and 2023."
"Weather and climate-related extremes caused economic losses of assets estimated at EUR 738B between 1980-2023 in the EU, with over EUR 162B (22%) of those losses occurring between 2021 and 2023."
September 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
A quarter of Europe’s climate losses since 1980 came in the last 3 years.
This summer added €43bn more. Impacts are accelerating faster than our systems — delay just shifts the cost onto people.
Policy and planning need to catch up — the delay just shifts the cost onto people, communities and gov!
This summer added €43bn more. Impacts are accelerating faster than our systems — delay just shifts the cost onto people.
Policy and planning need to catch up — the delay just shifts the cost onto people, communities and gov!
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Planetary Boundaries are being breached, as humanity lives beyond Earth's ability to cope
We're already exceeding Climate Change, Land System Change, Freshwater Use, Novel Entities (chemicals, plastics) & others
To that list we can now add Ocean Acidification
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We're already exceeding Climate Change, Land System Change, Freshwater Use, Novel Entities (chemicals, plastics) & others
To that list we can now add Ocean Acidification
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life
Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Planetary Boundaries are being breached, as humanity lives beyond Earth's ability to cope
We're already exceeding Climate Change, Land System Change, Freshwater Use, Novel Entities (chemicals, plastics) & others
To that list we can now add Ocean Acidification
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We're already exceeding Climate Change, Land System Change, Freshwater Use, Novel Entities (chemicals, plastics) & others
To that list we can now add Ocean Acidification
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
When considering existing assets, demolition should never be the default. Policy must require justification for taking a building down. From an embodied carbon perspective, keeping buildings in use is almost always the lower-carbon choice.
#CircularEconomy #RetrofitFirst #NetZeroCarbon #policy
#CircularEconomy #RetrofitFirst #NetZeroCarbon #policy
September 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
When considering existing assets, demolition should never be the default. Policy must require justification for taking a building down. From an embodied carbon perspective, keeping buildings in use is almost always the lower-carbon choice.
#CircularEconomy #RetrofitFirst #NetZeroCarbon #policy
#CircularEconomy #RetrofitFirst #NetZeroCarbon #policy
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Without central guidance on planning processes, the circular economy risks becoming "a hodgepodge of postcode lottery.”
Libby Peake, senior fellow and head of resources, on how inconsistent policies are holding businesses back in the @endsreport.com 👇
Libby Peake, senior fellow and head of resources, on how inconsistent policies are holding businesses back in the @endsreport.com 👇
Circular economy taskforce ‘fighting some big interests’ says member
A member of the circular economy taskforce has said they have been ‘fighting some big interests’ in the process of developing the Circular Economy Strategy for England.
www.endsreport.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Without central guidance on planning processes, the circular economy risks becoming "a hodgepodge of postcode lottery.”
Libby Peake, senior fellow and head of resources, on how inconsistent policies are holding businesses back in the @endsreport.com 👇
Libby Peake, senior fellow and head of resources, on how inconsistent policies are holding businesses back in the @endsreport.com 👇
Europe has already lost €790bn to climate disasters since 1980.
Here & now? €43bn lost in one summer (2025), from heatwaves, floods & droughts — with forecasts of €126bn by 2029.
Most damage is uninsured. The cost falls on people, communities & governments.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Here & now? €43bn lost in one summer (2025), from heatwaves, floods & droughts — with forecasts of €126bn by 2029.
Most damage is uninsured. The cost falls on people, communities & governments.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
September 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Europe has already lost €790bn to climate disasters since 1980.
Here & now? €43bn lost in one summer (2025), from heatwaves, floods & droughts — with forecasts of €126bn by 2029.
Most damage is uninsured. The cost falls on people, communities & governments.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Here & now? €43bn lost in one summer (2025), from heatwaves, floods & droughts — with forecasts of €126bn by 2029.
Most damage is uninsured. The cost falls on people, communities & governments.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Stakeholder mapping shows how complex the circular built environment really is. Aligning the value network is critical to achieving circularity. Early client and developer decisions carry the most weight and can lock in decades of carbon.
architectscan.org/resource/cir...
#CircularEconomy #netzero
architectscan.org/resource/cir...
#CircularEconomy #netzero
September 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Stakeholder mapping shows how complex the circular built environment really is. Aligning the value network is critical to achieving circularity. Early client and developer decisions carry the most weight and can lock in decades of carbon.
architectscan.org/resource/cir...
#CircularEconomy #netzero
architectscan.org/resource/cir...
#CircularEconomy #netzero
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🌳 Losing touch with nature
A new study finds people’s connection to nature has fallen 60% since 1800, risking an 'extinction of experience' without radical change.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#SciComm 🧪 #Nature
A new study finds people’s connection to nature has fallen 60% since 1800, risking an 'extinction of experience' without radical change.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#SciComm 🧪 #Nature
Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds
Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:50 AM
🌳 Losing touch with nature
A new study finds people’s connection to nature has fallen 60% since 1800, risking an 'extinction of experience' without radical change.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#SciComm 🧪 #Nature
A new study finds people’s connection to nature has fallen 60% since 1800, risking an 'extinction of experience' without radical change.
🔗 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#SciComm 🧪 #Nature
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"fossil-fuel companies, and their adjacent organizations, are the primary lobbyists for #CCS subsidies and that these subsidies benefit fossil-fuel companies at the expense of both taxpayers and the future health of our planet"
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September 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
"fossil-fuel companies, and their adjacent organizations, are the primary lobbyists for #CCS subsidies and that these subsidies benefit fossil-fuel companies at the expense of both taxpayers and the future health of our planet"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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NEW – Guest post: How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated | @gidden.bsky.social @joerirogelj.bsky.social
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Guest post: How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated - Carbon Brief
Removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere is widely expected to play a key role in meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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September 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
NEW – Guest post: How the role of carbon storage has been hugely overestimated | @gidden.bsky.social @joerirogelj.bsky.social
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We express our solidarity to all the people affected by the climate crisis: they are paying the heavy toll for a crisis created by profit-hungry big polluters. This is deeply unfair but we can change course, choosing a different path and making polluters, not people, pay.
Climate change kills, Spanish PM tells deniers at launch of plan to tackle crisis
Pedro Sánchez says country’s deadly August wildfires show society needs to mobilise and take immediate action
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September 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
We express our solidarity to all the people affected by the climate crisis: they are paying the heavy toll for a crisis created by profit-hungry big polluters. This is deeply unfair but we can change course, choosing a different path and making polluters, not people, pay.
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Analysis: What record global heat means for breaching the 1.5C warming limit | @hausfath.bsky.social #CBarchive
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September 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Analysis: What record global heat means for breaching the 1.5C warming limit | @hausfath.bsky.social #CBarchive
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Clinging to fossil fuels won’t deliver energy security or jobs. A planned transition to clean energy will. The North Sea’s future is renewables, not pipe dreams. #justtransition #netzero #energysecurity
Why UK Tories & Reform are wrong when they position drilling in the North Sea as an answer to UK energy security
"Between now and 2050, new licences are expected to provide just 103 days of gas at today’s demand – that's four days worth of gas a year on average"
www.upliftuk.org/post/the-fut...
"Between now and 2050, new licences are expected to provide just 103 days of gas at today’s demand – that's four days worth of gas a year on average"
www.upliftuk.org/post/the-fut...
The future of the North Sea - Blogpost from Uplift (News)
The UK government is undertaking to transition the North Sea from oil and gas production to clean energy generation to ensure that it provides the future jobs, investment and energy that this country ...
www.upliftuk.org
September 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Clinging to fossil fuels won’t deliver energy security or jobs. A planned transition to clean energy will. The North Sea’s future is renewables, not pipe dreams. #justtransition #netzero #energysecurity
Addressing the housing crisis without overshooting our carbon budget isn’t just a challenge — it’s an opportunity to rethink how we build, live, and grow sustainably. Looking forward to the insights from this discussion!
#netzero #climateaction #sustainablehousing #Systemschange
#netzero #climateaction #sustainablehousing #Systemschange
How can we solve the UK's housing crisis without breaking the carbon bank?
Join us for a webinar next Wednesday lunchtime where our expert panel will share their thoughts. Register and learn more ⤵️
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Join us for a webinar next Wednesday lunchtime where our expert panel will share their thoughts. Register and learn more ⤵️
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How can we build 1.5 million homes without breaking the carbon budget? » Green Alliance
Green Alliance is an independent think tank and charity focused on ambitious leadership for the environment
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August 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Addressing the housing crisis without overshooting our carbon budget isn’t just a challenge — it’s an opportunity to rethink how we build, live, and grow sustainably. Looking forward to the insights from this discussion!
#netzero #climateaction #sustainablehousing #Systemschange
#netzero #climateaction #sustainablehousing #Systemschange
I was asked recently for a resource on making the built environment more sustainable & future-proof. One I’m proud of & had the honour of leading — is ACAN’s Circular Economy Design Guide. Packed with diagrams, checklists & practical steps.
architectscan.org/resource/cir...
#CircularEconomy 🌎
architectscan.org/resource/cir...
#CircularEconomy 🌎
Circular Economy Design Guide * Architects Climate Action Network - ACAN!
Free Design Guide for the Circular Economy in the Built Environment that provides a comprehensive overview of how to design for a Circular Economy.
architectscan.org
August 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I was asked recently for a resource on making the built environment more sustainable & future-proof. One I’m proud of & had the honour of leading — is ACAN’s Circular Economy Design Guide. Packed with diagrams, checklists & practical steps.
architectscan.org/resource/cir...
#CircularEconomy 🌎
architectscan.org/resource/cir...
#CircularEconomy 🌎
"But what about China?" They just built the world’s biggest solar farm (the size of Chicago). Their solar capacity just passed 1 TW — the equivalent of 1,000 nuclear reactors worth — and they pulled it off while demand kept rising. Time for everyone to respond!
#decarbonisation #greentech
#decarbonisation #greentech
China installed 212 gigawatts of solar capacity in the first six months of the year, more than America's entire capacity of 178 gigawatts as of the end of 2024
www.independent.co.uk/news/china-a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/china-a...
China rushes to build out solar, and emissions edge downward
Chinese officials have showcased what they claim will be the world's largest solar farm on the Tibetan plateau
www.independent.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
"But what about China?" They just built the world’s biggest solar farm (the size of Chicago). Their solar capacity just passed 1 TW — the equivalent of 1,000 nuclear reactors worth — and they pulled it off while demand kept rising. Time for everyone to respond!
#decarbonisation #greentech
#decarbonisation #greentech
An excellent audit, with a clear and concise message from the public,which must be carried forward into plain, effective policy.
74% of the public back a long term target to bring resource use within sustainable limits.
With the Circular Economy Strategy for England on the horizon, government should make this target the north star of the plan, @shaunspiers1.bsky.social explains 🎯
With the Circular Economy Strategy for England on the horizon, government should make this target the north star of the plan, @shaunspiers1.bsky.social explains 🎯
August 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
An excellent audit, with a clear and concise message from the public,which must be carried forward into plain, effective policy.