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2 months ago | 
urbanland.uli.org | August Williams-Eynon |Lucy Scott |Ron Nyren |Lindsay Brugger
As global temperatures rise from accelerating climate change, extreme temperature swings‚ both cold snaps and heat waves‚ are causing increasing damage and disruption. However, extreme cold and storms that bring snow, ice, and freezing rain can receive less focus than warm-weather hazards such as blistering heat and powerful hurricanes.
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2 months ago | 
urbanland.uli.org | August Williams-Eynon |Ron Nyren
ASTM International, a standards-setting organization, has released a new standard guide for assessing a property’s degree of resilience to physical climate hazards, thus marking a key milestone in the process of scaling up climate adaptation in real estate and the built environment.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | August Williams-Eynon |Deborah L Myerson
The focus on net zero in real estate has risen dramatically in the past several years, but the lack of consensus on what net zero means in practice has been a barrier to progress. Many organizations and standards-setting bodies have released their own definitions, which may differ from each other or from broader public understanding, and a variety of terms have proliferated along the way, leading to confusion and potential greenwashing among investors, occupants, and within real estate firms.
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May 23, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | August Williams-Eynon |Ron Nyren
For new construction, owners, developers, and investors can achieve the best low-carbon results by considering both the embodied and operational carbon impacts of their buildings and striking a balance between upfront carbon in materials and long-term efficiency returns, according to a new study by ULI. The report examines the various tradeoffs presented when these two types of carbon are considered in the design of a building’s façade and envelope.
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May 15, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | August Williams-Eynon |Ron Nyren |Matt Norris
The single-family rental (SFR) sector has sparked its share of controversy, primarily over concerns that institutional investors are blocking access to homeownership. Given the United States’ ongoing housing crisis, understanding whether SFR expansion increases rents and home prices is important but also just one element of the sector’s work on environmental, social, and governance issues (ESG).
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | August Williams-Eynon |Bennett Voyles |Morgan Maloney |Matt Norris
California’s recent landmark legislation on climate disclosure, passed in fall 2023, will drive new evolution in real estate reporting on climate risk and provide more public insight than ever into the industry’s impact on climate change. The two laws, SB 253 and SB 261, require large public and private companies in California to report their total greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of climate change on their financial performance.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | August Williams-Eynon
The two bills—SB 253 and SB 261—require large public and private companies in California to report their total greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of climate change on their financial performance.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
urbanland.uli.org | Ella Fertitta |August Williams-Eynon |Brett Widness |Karen Jordan
Almost all commercial real estate firms have diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in place in their organizations, with the number of firms adopting formal strategies increasing 5 percent year-over-year, according to the third edition of the Global Real Estate DEI Survey released in January. The Global Real Estate DEI Survey shows almost 96 percent of firms have DEI policies and practices in place in their firms, with 56.4 percent enacting formal strategies.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
urbanland.uli.org | August Williams-Eynon
Both net zero carbon and social equity have taken on increasing momentum within real estate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals in recent years. Many companies have intensified their commitments along both lines, but real estate professionals often consider environmental and social initiatives as distinct pursuits under the ESG and diversity, equity & inclusion umbrellas.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
urbanland.uli.org | August Williams-Eynon
Both net zero carbon and social equity have taken on increasing momentum within real estate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals in recent years. Many companies have intensified their commitments along both lines, but real estate professionals often consider environmental and social initiatives as distinct pursuits under the ESG and diversity, equity & inclusion umbrellas.
