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How Biden’s Sweeping Climate Plan Impacts CRE
The executive orders create what the president called a “unified national response” to climate change. Here’s what that means for commercial real estate.
BlackRock CEO Warns Businesses Will Suffer Without ‘Net-Zero’ Transition Plan
The climate transition presents a historic investment opportunity, one that will enable the continuation of a massive acceleration of capital towards companies better prepared to address climate risk, wrote BlackRock chairman and CEO Larry Fink in his annual letter to CEOs.
Every management team needs to consider how this transition will affect their company’s stock, he wrote, warning that companies that are not actively preparing themselves for the transition to a “net zero” economy will see their businesses and valuations suffer.
ACEEE Launches Leading with Equity Initiative to Better Measure Progress on Energy Equity
For nearly 15 years, ACEEE has released numerous scorecards and progress reports to benchmark and drive clean energy action among states, localities, and utilities. Through these efforts, they have captured best practices and set a high bar for identifying clean energy leaders. Moving forward, to ensure energy efficiency leadership clearly includes efforts to advance equity, and that everyone has equitable access to and benefits from clean energy investments, ACEEE has launched the Leading with Equity Initiative.
What to Expect From the Office Sector in 2021
The pandemic acted as a catalyst for change, being the main factor that shaped the office market in 2020. Its multilayered effects resulted in the acceleration and crystallization of several trends. Offices—those traditional clusters of meetings and collaboration—began to change, propelled by the shift to remote work.
Live Workshop: LADWP Zero By Design Program
When: February 5, 9-11a.m. PST
Podcast: Deep Decarbonization - Infinity War
What technology will become the dominant means of decarbonizing each part of the economy?
The pattern we see now — and that we expect to continue to see over the coming decades — is a series of battles between consistent contenders: electricity, hydrogen and carbon capture.
Source: Blackrock