22 Building Green Communities

Building Green Communities

The built environment portends to be one of largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions by doubling its footprint over the next few decades. As this expansion occurs, high performance construction, renovation, operational and community development standards are now pre-requisites to attract both equity and debt capital.

We will discuss:

Where can the real estate sector best act to minimize its contribution to emissions?
How can this contribute to stronger, more inclusive and more resilient communities?
What are the potential risk/return benefits for equity and debt investors in commercial real estate?

Our special guests will be:
Roxana Isaiu, GRESB, the leading Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) benchmark for real estate and infrastructure investments across the world
Jason Breede, Stok, a high sustainability performance Real Estate consultancy
Michael Billingsley, Greenworks Lending, the largest provider of Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing in the USA.
Lauren Zullo, Jonathan Rose Companies, a community-focused company and fully-integrated national real estate development and investment firm.

The discussion will be moderated by Bruce Kahn, of Edgewood Capital Advisors, who is also an Adjunct Professor of Sustainable Finance at Columbia University

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© Nigel Lake and Paul Herman, 2020, 2021