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Why Will High Carbon Emitting Buildings Be Worth Less Over Time

The Environmental Blog

However, as sustainable construction is gaining importance, many cities are now set to change the rules of the game in commercial real estate. Local Law 33 – Importance of Building Energy Upgrades. An energy grade is assigned to each building based on its ENERGY STAR score under Local Law 33. No data submitted.

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Your Climate Tech Startup Needs A Sharper Story Now In The Wake Of SVB

Michael Grossman

The same culprits, be it flowers, real estate, or banks, are always at play. Out-of-balance supply and demand, coupled with greed. I receive it with a healthy dose of skepticism because they are breaking a fundamental law of human nature. As a startup, there is no demand for your solution or euphoria around your product.

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Climate Change and Affordable Housing

Green Business Bureau

From 2021 to 2022, home and rent prices have spiked due to a widening gap between supply and demand, causing over 9 million homebuyers to be priced out of the housing market. This demand in turn has caused rent prices to soar. These costs play into the overall final cost of the project and influence surrounding real estate prices.

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After Pandemic, New York’s Buildings Face Daunting Decarbonization Mandate

GreenTechMedia

Saturday marked the one-year anniversary of the passage of perhaps the most ambitious law ever adopted by a U.S. Local Law 97, one of 10 bills in the sweeping Climate Mobilization Act , requires New York City’s 50,000 largest buildings to reduce their carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2030 and by 80 percent by 2050.

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'Expectations of what a company should be are changing': Segro's Paul Dunne on 'greening' Europe's warehousing boom

Business Green

Warehouse demand was already soaring even before the pandemic hit, as consumers increasingly switched from physical stores to shopping online for food, clothes, and groceries. FTSE100 company’s operations director sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the warehouse giant's plan to deliver a zero carbon portfolio.

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Will New York City’s largest buildings meet emissions reduction limits by 2024?

Renewable Energy World

Three New York measures have really impacted energy efficiency: Local Laws 84, 87, and 97. They’re part of New York City’s Greener, Greater Buildings Plan , a comprehensive set of energy efficiency laws targeting the largest existing buildings. This was the first foray for many building owners to understand how much energy they use.

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The surprising biodiversity of abandoned coal mines 

Grist

Stripping coal from a mountain demands a wholesale rearrangement of its summit and the transformation of the surrounding forest into a moonscape. As millions in public and private investment, boosted by the bipartisan infrastructure law, pour into the region, many people are eyeing these abandoned sites.