Green premiums in the UK’s commercial real estate market: A Santander x Build Ahead UK developer interview series

The UK real estate transition is no longer constrained by ambition. Developers, lenders, owners, and advisors increasingly recognise that sustainability is fundamental to asset quality, resilience, and long‑term value. This report distils learnings from a cross‑sector roundtable and deep‑dive interviews with senior leaders across London’s development ecosystem.

Ten years on, the Paris Agreement is just getting started

Ten years after the Paris Agreement, we’re no longer debating if the global economy will decarbonise. The question is how fast, who leads, and who gets left behind. A decade is a blink in human history, but it’s been long enough to expose both the power and the limits of voluntary pledges, fragmented carbon markets, and uneven national ambition.

Leaders’ Lens: Amy Marshall

Meet Amy Marshall, Xynteo’s Partner and Managing Director Europe, a strategic leader whose 25-year career has been defined by driving transformational change across energy, clean mobility, and telecommunications.

Green finance in the built environment: Mapping India’s opportunity

Build Ahead’s latest working paper explores how India’s green housing finance ecosystem can evolve to unlock sustainable growth in the built environment, and maps current financing instruments, assesses institutional readiness and identifies pathways to scale certified green lending through collaboration among financiers, developers and certification bodies. This marks the first step towards a shared roadmap for mainstreaming green capital in India’s construction and real estate sectors.

Decarbonising the built environment: Cement and concrete technology catalogue

India is entering one of the largest construction cycles in history—amid intensifying climate risks and a fast-approaching net-zero horizon. With embodied carbon already accounting for around 30% of built environment emissions—and set to reach 50% by 2050—there’s an urgent need to decarbonise the materials that shape our cities. Cement and concrete alone contribute roughly 45% of a building’s embodied carbon. …

Accelerating green hydrogen: Unlocking India’s technological prowess

India is at a pivotal moment in the green hydrogen transition. With world-class renewable resources, deep engineering capabilities, and a fast-maturing innovation ecosystem, the country can lead the next wave of clean industrial growth. The question is no longer “if” — it’s “how fast” we can move from promising prototypes to commercial deployment at scale.

Leaders’ Lens: Sam Preece

Meet Sam Preece, Xynteo’s newest Partner, a sustainability veteran with an impressive 25-year career that’s seen him navigate the complex worlds of investment funds, global consultancies like PwC, and leadership roles at major firms such as AECOM.