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Greenhouse Gas Emission Disclosures in Real Estate Contracts and Beyond

Greenbuilding Law

In response, both voluntary and mandatory GHG emission disclosures in contracts have emerged worldwide, compelling a broad breadth of business sectors, particularly real estate, to integrate these considerations into their company practices and into their contract documents. businesses operate in leased space.

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How climate change could sink the US real estate market

A Greener Life

Before she bought the house, Greene said, she asked the builder and the real estate agent if the property tended to flood. In response, real estate developers have been on a building tear. To understand how the climate crisis might tank the real estate market, the place to begin is at the most basic level: the individual.

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How Antiquated Real Estate Laws are Stopping Farmers from Fighting Climate Change

JANZEN AG

However, companies searching for ways to sequester carbon in farmland are mostly choosing to bypass traditional real estate contracts and instead create new “soil carbon” contracts. As a result, transfers of interests in property often require timely and costly investments in surveys, title work, and real estate attorneys.

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Maybe Carbon Contracts Will Finally Convince Us to Update Real Estate Laws

JANZEN AG

But real property law—our system for describing, owning, and transferring interests in real estate—continues to exist in the legal dark ages. I’ve yet to see any company with an easy solution to the cumbersome challenges created by our decentralized system of maintaining land records.

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CEQA vs. Housing: A Very Wrong Picture

CEQA Developments

Further, the article asserts that CARB’s Draft 2022 Scoping Plan’s housing provisions evidence a “profound unfamiliarity with housing” and propose climate-driven “solutions” that are infeasible and simply invite more CEQA litigation.

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Check into Moliving's tiny homes and mobile hotels

Inhabitant

Much has changed in the real estate and hospitality sectors in the past several years. The business models have shifted towards meeting demands and providing solutions for remote accommodations.

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Florida is a Climate-Denying Hellscape

Legal Planet

These bills have been criticized by environmentalists not just for trying to silence the conversation about solutions to the climate crisis, but also because they could discourage green infrastructure projects and increase the reliance on natural gas and other fossil fuels. Some in Florida aren’t taking this lying down, however.