Robert Bernard joins CBRE as chief sustainability officer

Robert Bernard, an executive with more than two decades of environmental sustainability experience, has joined CBRE Group as chief sustainability officer and senior vice president, client sustainability solutions.

Bernard will drive enterprise-wide strategies that strengthen the suite of sustainability services the company delivers for clients, as well as strategies that enable CBRE to achieve its own carbon-reduction and sustainability goals. In September 2021, CBRE pledged to reach net zero emissions by 2040.

Bernard previously served as the first chief environmental strategist at Microsoft, where he established a global strategic framework to transform company-wide approaches to carbon, climate, energy, water and waste.

Most recently, Bernard founded and served as managing director of a Commonwealth Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on investments in companies that participate in the circular economy. He has also served as an advisor and consulta