In today’s edition of The Times newspaper, Design Partner Kent Jackson writes about Urban Sequoia, a radical systems-based approach to constructing resilient cities.

First unveiled at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), Urban Sequoia is a design concept that is buildable today. Instead of construction being a major contributor to climate change, the concept offers a solution by integrating innovative design strategies.

In his op-ed, “Why We Should Build Cities of Green Skyscrapers,” Jackson emphasizes the importance of leveraging new technologies to mitigate the impact of climate change. He urges investors, governments, and clients to work with the built environment to realize new solutions to reduce carbon. “If half of the area built by 2060 applied concepts like Urban Sequoia, up to a billion metric tons of carbon could be removed from the atmosphere every year, the equivalent of approximately one billion acres of forest,” he wrote in the op-ed, which you can read below.