Whether it’s part of a green lease process or standard communication between owner and tenant, as a corporate occupier, you have the power to drive conversations about reducing the carbon emissions from your office space. 

There’s a lot at stake. According to JLL research, 88% of CRE occupiers will make carbon emissions reduction part of their corporate sustainability strategy by 2025. And considering that operational emissions from the daily usage of buildings represent three quarters of real estate’s overall carbon footprint, addressing your office portfolio’s energy usage is not only important. It’s essential.

Of course, cutting carbon requires working with your landlord, who, depending on your lease, likely controls the equipment, systems and energy sources that power your spaces. But what if your building’s owners aren’t as motivated as you are to start cutting carbon? Competing priorities, and false assumptions, can get in the way of real progress.

Chances are you agree on more than you think.

As the diagram here shows, owners and occupiers have unique motivations when it comes to sustainability. But they also share the same fundamental goals.