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Now is a great time to optimize energy in buildings. You'd think.

GreenBiz

The result: Commercial office spaces could become stranded assets, subject to write-downs and operating losses. . Investment in critical infrastructure focused on digitization and efficiency will be absolutely key for economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and building resilience for the future. Energy & Climate.

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Energy Efficiency of Buildings - The Pressure Is On!

3BL Media

As for so many industries, digitization offers another way forward to address challenges. Reality is though that the building sector is a bit of a digitization laggard. Investment fonds are optimizing their property asset portfolios from an energy efficiency perspective. KEYWORDS: NASDAQ:ERIC, Ericsson, energy management.

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Guest Post: Why Governments Must Encourage More Investment in Green Infrastructure, Now!

ESG Today

Build more investor confidence in green infrastructure projects The greatest fear that many investors have around investing in green infrastructure projects is that they become “stranded assets.” To prevent this, governments must make a long-term commitment to a green energy source such as hydrogen or nuclear.

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Winners and losers in green energy’s ‘Age of Inflation’

Envirotec Magazine

European renewable energy asset holders and investors must rapidly re-evaluate their strategies and business models, faced with inflationary and supply chain pressures, alongside ongoing regulatory uncertainty driven by the energy crisis. Those failing to do so will find the risk of stranded assets to be high and rising.

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Advancing Sustainability Innovation at VMware

3BL Media

In the first installment of this blog series, “ Accelerating Decarbonization of the World’s Digital Infrastructure ,” I defined and explained why the next frontier for innovation is sustainable computing. We have an enormous opportunity to accelerate the decarbonization of digital infrastructure through our public-cloud partner ecosystem.

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Trends & Opportunities with Standardizing ESG Disclosures in Real Estate

3BL Media

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) , launched in 2021 in the EU, is a non-financial reporting directive to introduce even more detailed reporting requirements for large companies, including an obligation for companies to digitally tag reported information.

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Defining Sustainable Economic Systems – Development vs Growth

Richard Matthews

The white economy has also been used to describe the digital economy, this definition is attributed to Professor Douglas McWilliams, a British economist who wrote a 2015 book by the same name. It does this by reforming markets to address real needs while factoring costs and stakeholder concerns.