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Green money is decarbonising the built environment

If developers want funding from image conscious investors, they need a green and ethical reputation. Surveyors are part of ensuring that happens

It’s when the big money moves that we can see real progress on fighting climate change. But while climate-linked destruction grows more and more dire, the investment efforts of ‘green’ finance in real estate have so far failed to produce any result beyond a lot of talk. What action needs to happen?

A recent KPMG report Can Capital Markets Help Save the Planet? notes that environment-focused investment has not yet had the desired effect of transitioning the world to a low carbon economy. There has not been clear policy on where companies should go with their green initiatives, meaning it has been hard to compare results, while capital markets have not yet been pricing the impact of climate-change action accurately.

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