Real Estate’s Sustainability Challenge

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Transitioning to a carbon-neutral economy will require meaningful commitment and action from nearly every major industry. Automakers must electrify much of their fleets. Farmers must adopt climate-smart practices that help soil store more carbon. Miners must ramp up output to meet soaring demand for raw materials.

It’s a list that could stretch for pages. But if the energy transition is going to succeed, no industry will likely be more important than real estate. Buildings and construction accounted for 37 percent of global energy- and process-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2021, according to the International Energy Agency, far more than any other industry.

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