The rules that reprice buildings.

Requires large existing buildings to report annual energy and water use and meet declining GHG emissions standards, reaching net zero by 2050. Imposes both disclosure and emissions-cap obligations on Boston CRE.

Requires US companies with over $1bn revenue doing business in California to publicly report Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions (Scope 3 from 2027). Affects large CRE owners and REITs; first reports due 2026.

Requires companies with over $500m revenue doing business in California to publish biennial climate-related financial risk reports. Relevant to large CRE firms with physical and transition-risk exposure.

ISSB-aligned standards (general sustainability and climate disclosures) setting how Canadian entities report sustainability and climate risks. Voluntary from 2025, providing the disclosure baseline for Canadian real-estate companies.

Requires buildings larger than 50,000 sq ft to track and report whole-building energy use annually via ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, with periodic data verification. Provides energy-transparency benchmarking for Chicago CRE.

Expands mandatory sustainability reporting to a wide set of large and listed companies, requiring audited disclosure under the European Sustainability Reporting Standards on a double-materiality basis. Captures large CRE owners, developers and REITs.

A classification system defining when an activity counts as environmentally sustainable, with technical screening criteria for construction, renovation, acquisition and ownership of buildings. Determines whether real estate assets can be reported as Taxonomy-aligned 'green'.

The detailed standards companies must use to report under the CSRD, including climate change, energy and own-operations metrics relevant to building portfolios.

An investor-driven ESG benchmark that scores the sustainability performance of real estate and infrastructure portfolios via standardized annual assessments. Used by institutional investors, managers and REITs to compare ESG performance.

Global baseline standards for sustainability- and climate-related financial disclosures, building on the TCFD framework. Used to provide decision-useful, comparable sustainability disclosures.

Requires owners of buildings 50,000 sq ft or larger to annually report whole-building energy and water use via ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, underpinning NYC's building-emissions program.

Caps annual GHG emissions for most buildings over 25,000 sq ft, with limits from 2024 tightening sharply in 2030 en route to net zero by 2050. Owners must file annual emissions reports or face penalties.

Criteria and sector guidance (including buildings/real estate) so companies can set GHG-reduction targets aligned with climate science and net-zero by 2050. Used to validate emissions-reduction targets.

Would have required SEC registrants to disclose material climate risks, governance and certain GHG emissions. The rule was stayed in 2025 and proposed for rescission, so it imposes no current obligations on public CRE issuers.

Requires financial market participants, including real estate fund and asset managers, to disclose how they integrate sustainability risks and adverse impacts at entity and product level. Shapes how CRE funds market and report ESG credentials.

A framework recommending how organizations disclose climate-related financial risks across governance, strategy, risk management and metrics. Widely adopted; monitoring passed to the IFRS Foundation/ISSB in 2023.

Requires an EPC, valid 10 years, whenever a commercial building is built, sold or let. Affects every CRE transaction and underpins the MEES minimum-rating regime.

Requires large UK companies, quoted companies and large LLPs to disclose energy use, GHG emissions and efficiency actions in annual reports. Affects larger CRE owners, REITs and property funds.

FCA regime governing sustainability-related product naming, marketing, investment labels and disclosures, plus an anti-greenwashing rule. Affects managers marketing sustainable CRE investment products to UK investors.