The good, the bad and the ugly of green leases
In this roundtable we’ll take a deep dive into the impact of green leases across the ESG sphere. With an urgency for the whole of the built environment to ramp up its efforts when it comes to reducing its carbon impact, green leases across the sector should become standard. But that pressure has been on the industry for some time now and green leases are still not the norm. What is stopping their use? What levers need to be pulled to make green leases standard, can green leases be utilised to better solve real estate’s embodied carbon problem?
We will also dive into the impact of green on society. Does a proliferation of green buildings, with green leases lead to further bifurcation of the office sector? Will this create more stranded assets, less affordable workplaces and therefore a reduced opportunity place to succeed?
We will look at green leases in their entirety and deliver a forensic analysis of how real estate can lead on delivering a sustainable UK.
Chair:
Samantha McClary, editor, EG
Guests:
Anna Beckett, associate director, Buro Happold
Jane Blore, managing director – Asset Management, Martley Capital
Finn Carew, co-founder & investment director, Vaux Developments
Will Deeprose, partner, Clyde & Co
Toby Fuhrman, leasing transactions Manager, GPE
Dan Higginson, director, Greycoat Real Estate
Anna Hollyman, co-head regenerative placed, UKGBC
Shravan Joshi, chairman planning and transportation, City of London Corporation
Ross Ironside, head of commercial real estate, Coutts & Co
John MacDonald-Brown, founder, Syzygy Consulting
James Manning, London estate strategy and performance lead, Grosvenor
Jessica Pilz, head of sustainability, Fiera Capital
Annabelle Redman, partner, Clyde & Co
