The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features MVRDV's reimagining of Vancouver's waterfront in response to rising sea levels. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features MVRDV's "awfully idyllic" 2100 vision for Vancouver's waterfront
The widespread adoption of self-driving cars will create a major bump in carbon emissions without changes to their design, a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found. More about MIT study finds huge carbon cost to self-driving cars
Dutch architecture studio MVRDV has released a study that aims to offer possible solutions to urban planning in the face of rising sea levels by reimagining the Vancouver waterfront. More about MVRDV envisions Vancouver in 2100 with predicted sea level rise
Incessant squabbling between advocates of classical and modernist architecture is an unhelpful distraction in the face of the climate emergency, which requires us to escape both, writes Barnabas Calder. More about "Both sides in the style wars are equally wrong"
To truly tackled tackle climate change we have to focus on happiness not reducing energy or embodied carbon, say Ramboll's Gorana Shepherd and Adam Selvey. More about "The simplistic solution of net-zero buildings is a rushed silver bullet"
A data platform showing how different levels of global heating will affect people's lives around the world has been launched by the United Nations. More about Human Climate Horizons tool projects impact of global heating on each nation
The fear of being called out for "greenwashing" is paralysing designer-makers into doing nothing on the climate crisis. It's time to let them make mistakes, writes Katie Treggiden. More about "We need to let designer-makers get sustainability wrong"
The COP27 conference was made a miserable affair by its dreadful architecture as much as the disheartening tenor of the discussions and debates, writes Smith Mordak. More about "COP27 was a deeply depressing experience"
Promotion: with Copenhagen due to host the UIA World Congress of Architects, the city aims to set an example for how architecture can help to reduce the impact of climate change. More about Copenhagen addresses global warming with climate-resilient architecture
As yet another COP fails to put the world on a path to avert climate catastrophe, it's time for architects to fundamentally rethink the work they do, writes Michael Pawlyn. More about "Architects need to embrace radical change if we are to avoid a hellish future"
Architects must take greater accountability for their sector to help decarbonise the built environment, says UN Race to Zero ambassador Sarah El Battouty in this exclusive interview from the final day of the COP27 climate conference. More about Sustainable architecture efforts hindered by "sloppiness" says UN climate ambassador
In time for the COP27 climate summit, a team of researchers led by architect Adrian Lahoud has developed an app that calculates how much coastal cities are owed in climate reparations to make up for the destruction wrought by rising sea levels. More about Second Sea calculator predicts damage to global cities from rising seas
Designers might have had a hand in causing climate change but they are also key to solving it, according to the chair of the UK Climate Change Committee, who addressed the Design Council's sustainability conference as it kicked off alongside COP27. More about Bad design is "at the heart of our destruction" says UK government's top climate adviser
Architects and built environment sustainability experts have expressed frustration at the slow pace of global action to reduce carbon emissions as the COP27 climate-change summit kicks off in Egypt. More about "Hard to find causes for optimism" say architects as COP27 begins in Sharm El-Sheikh
A team of University College London researchers, led by Bartlett professor Priti Parikh, has developed an open-source calculator that allows those travelling from the UK to Egypt for COP27 to assess, reduce and offset the carbon footprint of their journey. More about COP27 carbon calculator aims to cut "obscene" travel emissions from climate conference
Design graduate Liselot Cobelens has presented a rug at Dutch Design Week that visualises real-world data on how climate change-induced droughts are damaging local landscapes. More about Burnt and shorn Dryland rug captures consequences of drought in the Netherlands
Zane Cerpina and Stahl Stenslie's have collected experimental food designs, including whisky made from urine and cows that harness energy, for their Anthropocene Cookbook. The authors chose 10 of their favourites for Dezeen. More about Ten experimental designs that tackle the food challenges of the Anthropocene era
The United Nations has written a set of "principles for sustainable and inclusive urban design and architecture" for architects to sign up to called the San Marino Declaration, which architect Norman Foster is set to launch ahead of COP27. More about Norman Foster to launch UN sustainability declaration for architects
The design industry has joined several others in declaring a climate emergency. Design Declares organiser Alexie Sommer explains the background to the launch and what the movement hopes to achieve. More about "Declaring a climate emergency is just the beginning of the journey"
London studio Pearson Lloyd and Britain's Design Council are among the founding signatories of Design Declares, a new campaign launched at London Design Festival to help UK designers tackle their environmental footprint. More about Design Declares campaign unites studios "fed up" with industry's lack of climate action