Course description
Across the country, addressing climate change is bound up in the many-headed hydra of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategies and benchmarking. In this context, navigating the impact of ESG standards in the bricks and mortar market of commercial property is complex but vital work - as is understanding the breadth and depth of ESG’s impact on real estate clients and their businesses.
As commercial real estate lawyers get to grips with the implications of climate change on their practices, it is important to understand how far the demands of this challenge stretch. By exploring the climate change problem through the prism of ESG, this virtual classroom seminar will enable you to spot and tackle the issues and opportunities in a commercial property environment, and to help your clients’ ambition to be part of the solution.
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Introduction
As commercial real estate lawyers get to grips with the implications of climate change on their practices, it is important to understand how far the demands of this challenge stretch.
Across the country, addressing climate change is bound up in the many-headed hydra of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategies and benchmarking. In this context, navigating the impact of ESG standards in the bricks and mortar market of commercial property is complex but vital work - as is understanding the breadth and depth of ESG’s impact on real estate clients and their businesses.
By exploring the climate change problem through the prism of ESG, this virtual classroom seminar will enable you to spot and tackle the issues and opportunities in a commercial property environment, and to help your clients’ ambition to be part of the solution.
What You Will Learn
This live and interactive session will cover the following:
- Environmental:
- The impact of climate change on a building’s life cycle and valuation
- The regulatory development of Environmental Performance Certificates (EPCs)
- The role of energy usage in assets
- Defining net zero
- The role of the lawyer in asset due diligence (with climate change searches etc.)
- Social:
- Moves to address building occupant health and wellbeing through design and community
- The birth of green leases
- Governance:
- Navigating the corporate regulatory standards and climate change reporting goals for property owners, investors and lenders - expectations and key indicators for the market
- Q&A
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MBL Seminars Limited
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