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Successful sustainable development of projects largely depends on the level of clients’ commitment to sustainable construction practices.  This survey found that the most influential factors were client knowledge and awareness; cost implication and mechanism of financial involvement; economic value and return on invest ...

Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) anticipates a climate policy acceleration driven in part by investor, corporate and civil society pressure around net zero, climate impacts, and low-carbon technology cost developments.  The principles address the different emissions paths between the developed and developing nations in ...

Companies are not required to disclose the information that investors need to price climate risk.  Voluntary frameworks, like the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), do not bring about the necessary change.  This has led to mispricing climate risk and capital misallocation, which harms investors ...

Material flow accounting provides a statistical framework measuring natural resource extraction, trade in natural resources, waste disposal and emissions.  Domestic material consumption and material footprint are used as a proxy for overall environmental pressure within a national economy and the impact of a national e ...

To limit additional global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, countries have adopted policies and codes that have a future impact on the emissions and energy efficiency of buildings.  Building emissions need to be reduced along their life cycle through a combination of reducing energy demand, decarbonizing the power s ...