SPONSORED: DWS – Whole-life carbon is key to reaching net zero

As reducing carbon emission grows ever more significant in real estate investment strategy and asset management, embodied carbon or whole-life carbon, has emerged as an important element in measuring carbon impact. A report by Siena Golan, real estate research analyst with DWS, which was published in the February issue of Institutional Real Estate Europe, examines why whole-life carbon is important and what a whole-life carbon approach means for real estate asset management and for investors. “Now that stricter building codes, greater energy efficiency in design briefs, and a shift towards renewable energy production both on- and off-site are reducing operational carbon, the propor­tional contribution of embodied carbon is growing. Increasingly, investors and developers are likely to be held accountable for carbon emissions on a whole-lifecycle basis,” says Golan. To access a pdf of the Sponsored Section,