Join the #NatureIsGrowth campaign: a unified built environment voice for nature-positive growth

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CIEEM is proud to support a landmark cross-sector initiative calling on government to embrace nature-positive housing and infrastructure as a driver of economic prosperity — and we’re urging you to get involved.

The Cross-Built Environment Climate and Nature Forum, led by Prof. Anusha Shah (Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 2023-24), is launching the #NatureIsGrowth campaign from Tuesday 26 May to Monday 2 June 2026, with a campaign summary published on World Environment Day (5 June).

The campaign brings together professional institutions across the built environment to push back against any weakening of nature-positive policy mechanisms, and to demonstrate — with real evidence — that nature-positive development is not in tension with growth. It is growth: delivering homes, infrastructure, economic resilience, climate adaptation and biodiversity recovery together.

CIEEM members are uniquely placed to contribute. As ecologists and environmental managers working at the interface of development and nature recovery every day, you hold the case studies, the expertise and the professional credibility that this campaign needs. Whether you are working on major infrastructure schemes, housebuilding, smaller developments, biodiversity net gain, sustainable drainage, green infrastructure, nature-based solutions or any other development that benefits nature, your experience is exactly what government and industry need to see.

How to get involved during campaign week (26 May – 2 June 2026)

  • Share a case study on social media (LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter etc.) using #NatureIsGrowth
  • Tag CIEEM as your professional institute in your posts
  • Use the suggested social media copy below as a starting point if needed

When sharing your case study, highlight both the housing or infrastructure outputs and the nature and climate resilience benefits — this dual narrative is at the heart of the campaign’s message to government.

Together, we can demonstrate that the built environment professions speak with one voice: #NatureIsGrowth.

Suggested social media copy

Not sure what to post? Use this template — just fill in the details from your own project or scheme:

Built environment professionals agree: nature-positive housing and infrastructure is not at odds with the government’s ambitions for growth. Nature Is Growth. It is an essential foundation for future economic prosperity, carbon reduction, climate resilience and nature recovery — and existing good practice schemes are delivering these outcomes.

[Insert scheme name] is an example of nature-positive delivery. It delivers [insert housing / growth headlines] whilst providing [insert nature / climate resilience headlines].

We urge government to embrace nature-positive approaches to housing and infrastructure design and delivery as standard.

#NatureIsGrowth

[Tag CIEEM]

[Insert case study image(s)]

[Insert project URL]