Sustainability and "Living Cities" via National Real Estate Investor

What is the responsibility of real estate owners, investors and developers to the future of our planet’s environment, given that buildings create more than 40 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions?

At Grosvenor, a privately-owned property group active in some of the world’s most dynamic cities, we know that our future success is tied to the sustainable growth of cities, which already account for over 50 percent of the global population, and in which the global population is projected to double by 2050. We have a vested interest in helping create and manage attractive and vibrant places where people choose to live, work and raise families.

During the next few decades, cities will need to adapt to the unprecedented challenges of rapidly urbanizing populations, the effects of climate change, and the distribution of natural resources.

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