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October 31, 2019

Real Estate Can Be Kodak, Or It Can Heed The Pope’s Advice And Save The World

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The climate emergency is an existential threat to humanity, but the fight against it does not have to be depressing. That is the view of one of the leading figures in the battle to reduce carbon emissions, who said this can be thrilling, a generation-defining event that humanity can look back on with pride once the goal is secure. 

“We are lucky to be alive today,” UK Government Committee On Climate Change Chairman the Rt. Honourable John Gummer, Lord Deben told the delegates at Bisnow’s London Building for the Future event.

“It is the most exciting period we’ve ever had, because we have the chance to save the world. No other generation has had the ability to do that.”

Real Estate Can Be Kodak, Or It Can Heed The Pope’s Advice And Save The World

He pointed to Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si, which argued that climate change is a symptom of the wider problem of overconsumption, and that our way of life as a whole has to change.That message just as easily applies to the real estate industry. Panelists at Bisnow’s event discussed…

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