Watch: Basics on green buildings and green financing
When asked to consider ‘building green’, developers often wonder why they should lose their margins when neither their clients, or their investors, are willing to foot the bill. But according to Prashant Kapoor, the Chief Industry Specialist for Green Buildings and Climate-Smart Cities at the World Bank Group (IFC), there’s no better time to seek financing and go green than now.
The 2021 PropertyGuru Asia Real Estate Summit will be held on 8 December 2021, focusing on the Data Revolution and sub-themes on sustainability, green building, and innovation. More details will be announced soon.
This article originally appeared in asiarealestatesummit.com
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