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Climate change is the new reality, and building owners and developers that want to remain in business need to adapt. So says a recent Urban Land Institute (ULI) report that calls last year's Paris agreement "a potential game changer."

November 7, 2016, 11am PST | ArupAmericas

Doggerel chatted with Sarene Marshall, executive director of ULI’s Center for Sustainability on ULI's new report, "L’Accord de Paris: A Potential Game Changer for the Global Real Estate Industry." One of the very good pieces of news from last year is that for the first time we saw global GDP go up and global carbon emissions go down, which debunks the idea that addressing climate change will mean an economic contraction. A lot of that is because technology is advancing so rapidly and costs are coming down so fast.