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The Urban Land Institute (ULI), a global research and education organization focused on shaping the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide, has received a major gift that will support the organization’s efforts to combat climate change by pushing cities and building owners to reduce their carbon emissions to zero.
Real estate owner, developer, operator, and investment manager Tishman Speyer announced today a new climate commitment, aiming to achieve operational net zero carbon emissions by 2050 or sooner across its entire global portfolio.
Measurabl, the world’s most widely adopted ESG (environmental, social, governance) technology platform for real estate, announced today it has closed $50 million in Series C funding. The funds will accelerate the expansion of Measurabl’s platform and support the launch of new services to meet rapidly growing global demand for sustainability and decarbonization tools. The round was led by Energ...
Larger investors are starting to buy up the debt behind loans to homeowners who want to reduce their dependence on vulnerable electric grids.
When Caitlin Rood entered the affordable housing industry in 2013 as an experienced sustainability professional, she had a plan. She would start with low-hanging fruit, accumulate savings, reinvest in deeper opportunities and repeat across the portfolio of Mercy Housing, which she ended up serving as national director of sustainability.
It was a strategy that worked for her in other industrie...
Just this week, on behalf of Park Avenue Capital, RealtyMogul announced the launch of the Woods of Ridgmar, a 235-unit multifamily property in Fort Worth, Texas that will undergo numerous environmental and sustainable upgrades - including a solar power system for the property. This investmen...
In just six years, Amanda von Almen has helped make Salesforce’s real estate team a testing ground for lasting and integrated sustainable efforts.
A recent building code change for new construction could reduce emissions by requiring use of solar panels and batteries, raising prices in an already expensive state.
Y Combinator-backed Kapacity.io is on a mission to accelerate the decarbonization of buildings by using AI-generated efficiency savings to encourage electrification of commercial real estate — wooing buildings away from reliance on fossil fuels to power their heating and cooling needs.
It does this by providing incentives to bui...