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ULI Members in Action: Housing Organizations Enter the Fight against COVID-19
COVID-19 has hit many communities hard, often in disproportionate ways. Individuals and families who live in public and affordable...
June 15, 2020
Urban Land Magazine
By: Rajiv Ravulapati and Monika Henn
June 12th, 2020
More than 70 cities worldwide have pledged carbon neutrality by 2050, and because buildings contribute upwards of 70 percent of a city’s emissions, a wide range of policies addressing energy use and emissions in buildings are under consideration in major cities across the United States. Already, over 31 U.S. cities have set energy benchmarking policies for buildings, with 15 also requiring that structures meet performance targets or undertake energy audits. Other cities have passed stricter energy codes, building rating systems, emissions targets, all-electric building ordinances, and renewable energy targets. Even as COVID-19 upends daily life and business, new climate policies are being passed, including Columbus, Ohio’s Energy and Water Benchmarking and Transparency Ordinance and St. Louis, Missouri’s Building Energy Performance Standard Bill, which will be discussed in more detail below.
To help accelerate progress toward shared climate action goals, the public and private sectors should unite around a set of principles. ULI Greenprint’s recently published Decarbonizing the Built Environment: 10 Principles for Climate Mitigation Policies report serves as a starting point for cities interested in engaging real estate leaders during the shaping of climate mitigation policies,… read the full article here.
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