CISL: Sustainable Real Estate: Creating a Better Built Environment
Discover how you can respond to challenges facing sustainability in the built environment to leverage industry opportunities.
Discover how you can respond to challenges facing sustainability in the built environment to leverage industry opportunities.
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Sustainable Real Estate: Creating a Better Built Environment
About this Course
Buildings produce a third of all greenhouse gas emissions and are one of the main consumers of energy in the world.1 The real estate sector plays an undeniable role in the climate emergency and needs to be reimagined if we want a sustainable future.
On the Sustainable Real Estate: Creating a Better Built Environment online short course, you’ll learn how to find opportunities within sustainability challenges in the built environment. Designed by expert faculty from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), the course addresses and analyzes the ecological, social, and governance aspects of real estate. With this overview of industry trends and risks, you’ll examine how sustainable real estate can contribute to a more resilient and inclusive society, and positively impact communities. Towards the end of this eight-week course, you’ll develop a personal action plan to deliver a sustainable outcome in your own built environment context. This strategy will help you realize the role you and your organization can play in improving your own supply chains, as well as the vast real estate network.
1 World Economic Forum (Jan, 2020).
This course is for professionals who want to understand the sustainability challenges facing the real estate sector, and want the knowledge and insights to implement resilient measures to address these challenges. Real estate developers, entrepreneurs, city planners, architects, engineers, and other built environment professionals will learn about the latest planning and design considerations, as well as opportunities for sustainable development. Public sector professionals will have the opportunity to study the impact of sustainability on society, systems, and the broader built environment, and explore solutions to potential challenges. Investment professionals will also gain value from the course, as they realize the impact of climate change on real estate investments, and the value behind delivering a sustainable built environment.
Learn about sustainable practices in the real estate industry and earn an official certificate of completion from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with your digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.
Some facts about the subject
36%
The percentage of CO2 emissions that the real estate sector must reduce by 2030, in order to stay within the 2°C threshold.
RICS (Mar, 2019).
73%
The percentage of greenhouse gas emissions that can be reduced in the non-residential sector, if buildings are renovated to lower their energy usage by 40% before 2030.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2020).