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RMI's bottom-up carbon model of the US building stock, identifying where retrofit capital should flow, including under-invested small and medium commercial buildings.
Lifecycle approach to cutting operational and embodied carbon in construction and real estate, which together generate more than 37% of global carbon emissions.
There’s a quiet revolution underway in on-site solar and batteries. What is it and why should commercial real estate investors should pay attention? The post Solar Wave: Community Solar is set to Transform Lease Income appeared first on AFIRE .
What began as a municipal policy tool for energy upgrades has matured into an institutional credit product embedded directly in the capital stack. The post How C-PACE (and Stretch PACE) are Rewiring Global Real Estate Finance for the Energy Transition appeared first on AFIRE .
The CEO Perspective, by Michael Brooks March 17, 2026 Decarbonization Depends on Clean, Available Power When does sustainability policy run into energy policy? The answer is increasingly clear, when the decarbonization pathway for buildings in Canada depends on electrification, and […] The post When Sustainability…
The CEO Perspective, by Michael Brooks March 11, 2026 Spring Economic Statement: Industry Priorities Each year, I try to speak to at least half of our Executive Members to understand, up to the moment, what’s going on in their business, […] The post Spring Economic Statement: Industry Priorities appeared first on…
The CEO Perspective, by Michael Brooks March 2, 2026 Montréal 2026: A Global Moment for Energy Efficiency Canada’s commercial buildings sector will have a seat at the table this summer as the International Energy Agency (IEA) convenes its 11th Annual Global […] The post Decarbonizing Commercial Buildings at Scale:…
The CEO Perspective, by Michael Brooks January 21, 2026 I spent much of my downtime over the holidays catching up on the myriad reports released by various government, not-for-profit, and for-profit entities that describe Canada’s housing challenges. The language that […] The post Re-Assessing the Housing Problem…
TPG Rise Climate leaders discuss how falling solar and wind costs and surging AI and data center power demand are reshaping the economics of the energy transition.
Jim Coulter and Scott Lebovitz argue the major themes of climate investing are cascading from private equity into infrastructure, where capital is needed to scale solutions over the next decade.