2025 Green Lease Leaders Trends
Beyond offices, continued international growth, and enhancing green lease language. These are the highlights from this year’s leaders!
Building Tenants
As individuals who work and live within a building, tenants are an important part of the building performance equation. Collaborating with tenants to identify opportunities for building energy use improvements is crucial to IMT’s work. Check out our resources below on engaging with tenants.
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IMT Announces 2025 Green Lease Leaders
The winners, announced today at the 2025 Green Lease Leaders Winners and Trends webinar, exemplify a growing shift toward sustainability and equity in commercial and industrial real estate strategy. Media contact: Alexandra Laney, Communications Director, 505-391-5602; alexandra.laney@imt.org Washington, D.C. (May 29, 2025) – Today, the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) announced the 2025 Green Lease Leader during … Continued
New Resources for Centering Community Priorities in BPS
While many organizations, governments, communities, businesses, foundations are all chipping away at climate change from different angles, the planet is still warming and more immediate challenges around affordability and health divert attention from the urgency around climate. How can we as a society do better? By bringing more people into climate action! Some of the … Continued
Community Health Priorities and Building Performance Policies
This document can serve as a starting point for both governments and advocates to craft decarbonization policies that center community priorities, and for insights on how to collaborate across sectors and interest groups.
Tenants at the Center: An Equitable Path to Building Decarbonization
Case studies and policy recommendations that focus on passing strong tenant protections to prevent rent increases and displacement stemming from building decarbonization efforts.
How can community accountability boards transform climate governance?
This factsheet explains what it takes to start a CAB, why your community should start one, where they exist, and how to set one up.
City Energy Project: Incorporating Equity into Energy Benchmarking Requirements
For cities working to address the climate crisis at the local level, benchmarking and transparency policies are a foundational step. Dozens of cities have passed these policies and scores more will likely adopt them in the coming years. They are important tools for understanding energy use and motivating building owners to make their buildings more … Continued
City Energy Project: A Primer for Cities on the Business Case for Energy Efficiency in Private Buildings
Why should companies put their staff effort and limited financial resources into documenting, analyzing, and reducing their energy use? The City Energy Project compiled data and conducted interviews with three leading real estate companies to illuminate the business case for efficiency in all of its dimensions – financial arithmetic, market positioning, policy compliance, and technical … Continued
City Energy Project: Engaging the Community in Policy Development
In order to successfully design policies that achieve these outcomes, it is critical to secure the involvement and participation of the community’s stakeholders—those that will be impacted the most by the new policy, including residents, businesses, local community groups, and others. City policymakers should make every attempt to bring these stakeholders into the policy development … Continued
City Energy Project: Water Audit Guidance for Commercial Buildings
Energy audits have been conducted for many years, and there is a well-established cohort of service providers trained to perform them in accordance with standards developed by ASHRAE and others. These standards define the process and quality of work that should be achieved for energy performance audits. However, a corresponding level of industry maturity, and … Continued