全球可持续物业观望Global-Sustainability-Perspective-March-2011.pdfVIP

COPYRIGHT ? JONES LANG LASALLE IP, INC. 2011. All Rights Reserved 1 Global Sustainability Perspective – March 2011 Sustainability Legislation for the Real Estate Sector Overview Legislation has been the cornerstone of the drive to more sustainable real estate over the past 40 years. In this edition of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Global Sustainability Perspective, we are focusing our attention on the legislative and regulatory framework as it applies to the real estate sector around the World. Our summary touches upon Energy Efficiency and Carbon Performance requirements of buildings, legislation on corporate Environmental/Social/Governance (ESG) reporting obligations, and renewable energy. A first phase of legislation, commencing in the 1970s after the first oil shock, focused on energy consumption and efficiency design standards for new construction. Standards for building insulation and efficient equipment were introduced in an effort to diminish the supply dependency from energy imports. Legislation also became more environmental to cover large scale energy generation facilities to lower air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide (a key contributor to acid rain) and more recently extending to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to mitigate climate change. While there were no specific targets for GHG reductions for buildings, they were nevertheless indirectly impacted due to the energy production that was ultimately consumed in buildings. Furthermore, advanced economies introduced renewable, i.e. low carbon, energy production targets to implement their climate change policies: 1970s: The first Oil price shock following the 1973 Middle East military crisis and the second oil crisis in 1979 after the Iranian revolution created an energy supply challenge leading to energy saving requirements for petrol-based transportation and also for energy used for heating and cooling of buildings: ? New construction and quality of insulation improved to reduce energy con