Finance and built environment primer - Accelerating the decarbonization of the

Financial services are the means by which the finance sector delivers and monitors financial products, such as investment and payment services, retirement planning, mortgage broking and accountancy.vii To give some scale to the market and the impact, the professionally managed global real estate investment market was USD $11.4 trillion in 2021viii and represents a significant proportion of key eco. [...] Additionally, businesses can work with these organizations to ensure alignment in standards to reduce the burden of assessment and reporting.` Valuation and the business case The challenge In the past, companies have not integrated issues relating to carbon emissions and the cost of decarbonization into valuations and business case analysis. [...] Explaining the business case of sustainability is the key to the transition: • Proving the business case by considering non-financial impact and value in key decisions and integrating whole-life carbon methodologies to incorporate emissions-related data into fundamental processes and decision-making, such as the cost of decarbonization and carbon pricing. [...] And lastly, investment advisors and data providers need to facilitate top-down learning as they share and spread best practices and become significant players in the standardization and harmonization of data and target-setting. [...] We bring neutral and unbiased thought leadership and a global system and whole value chain perspective to the issue and speak both up and down the value chain as a translator and connector.