Indirect emissions are the elephant in the room for commercial real estate

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Companies are missing out on major carbon savings by ignoring supply chain emissions, warns Karl Desai of the UK Green Building Council

Too technical, uninteresting, difficult to communicate: the reserve of carbon accounting nerds. This was the feedback from some when we set out to develop a guide to support commercial real estate...

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