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Fast-Forwarding Towards Sustainable Ecosystems: CDL Marks 30 Years of Sustainability Efforts With 18th Integrated Sustainability Report 2025

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In line with its Operational Net Zero 2030 target, CDL has reduced its Scope 1 and 2 operational carbon emissions for assets under direct management and operational control by 25% from 2016 levels. It achieved a 38% reduction in Scope 3 embodied carbon in new developments compared with a 2016 baseline. The Group recorded a 52.1%

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CEFC invests $100 million in affordable, greener housing

Sustainability Matters

Consistent with the International Energy Agencys zero carbon buildings approach , homes built through the strategy aim to be energy efficient, fully electric and capable of being powered by renewables while driving reductions in embodied carbon. The CEFC has made more than $1.2

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Green building labels need a renovation

Corporate Knights

It was a revelation reminiscent of Volkswagen’s 2015 emissions reduction scandal. Thousands of structures that earned high EPC ratings were still emitting lots of carbon due to shortcomings in the ranking system. “If But life-cycle analysis will be mandatory by the end of the decade.

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Sustainable Building Tech Startup Vizcab Raises $5.5 Million

ESG Today

Buildings and real estate are significant contributors to the global climate challenge, accounting for nearly 40% of carbon emissions, according to the International Energy Agency and UN Environment Programme. They are also among the hardest sources of emissions to replace, given their long-term nature.

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World Green Building Council Forum to Help Keep a 1.5°C Scenario Within Reach

3BL Media

Climate action that puts people first is top of the agenda, from health and equity to tackling embodied carbon (greenhouse gases – or GHGs– predominantly caused by the construction industry through manufacturing, installations, maintenance and transportation of building materials).

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The Power of Partnership

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There are materials, such as steel and concrete, that contain embodied carbon. In 2023, InfluenceMap recognized Trane Technologies as being in the top 5% of companies evaluated for positive and active climate policy engagements aligned with the 2015 Paris Agreement. But we are only a part.

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CDL’s integrated sustainability report 2022 zeroes in on bolder decarbonisation targets 

Corporate Knights

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach.

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