RP3031: Information, Risk and Retrofit: Energy/Carbon Disclosure at the Building Retrofit Investor – User interface

Mandatory disclosure at the point of sale and lease, as an information mechanism, has been shown to encourage investment in low carbon retrofits. It rebalances the investment’s risk and rewards, and shares the green branding rewards between investors and users, but is limited to single transactions at the investor-user interface of the corporate real estate supply chain.

This project will identify benefits from information mechanisms like voluntary or more frequent disclosure, and across a range of investor-user interfaces. A living laboratory will identify the information required and the communication mechanisms between actors at this interface.