Responsible Asset Owners Global Symposium

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The investment case for net zero buildings

By way of background, in 2019, in support of meeting the objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement, the UK government was the first in the world to enshrine a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in law. This has increasingly been matched by an understanding of the role that asset owners can play in meeting the Paris objective of limiting climate change to well below 2 degrees, and preferably 1.5 degrees.