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The real estate sector currently accounts for 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. Seventy percent are produced by building operations (heating, cooling, lighting, appliances), while the remaining 30% comes from construction.
Moreover, population growth and urbanization are precipitating unprecedented global building construction, according to a 2022 United Nations study.
In the face of climate change, the societal ecosystem is responding with business, technology, and policy solutions. For example, retrofitting existing buildings and the choices about the types of structures built and the materials used in new construction will have significant implications for the real estate sector’s future carbon footprint.
What solutions are working? What new solutions are being proposed?
In this 60-minute webinar, Smita Chandra Thomas, founder of Energy Shrink and the instructor for GWU’s online course on Decarbonizing Buildings, convenes a discussion of CRE business, technology, and policy decarbonization solutions available and what is on the horizon with Kimberly Pexton of JBG SMITH and Billy Grayson from the Urban Land Institute.
This webinar is part of the GWU Energy Resilience Certificate Program curriculum. SSF subscribers are invited to participate.
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