Since 2017, CAGBC’s Disclosure Challenge has called on real-estate leaders to publicly disclose all their buildings’ available energy, greenhouse gas emissions, and water data.
This report is an update to the previous Full Disclosure report. It adds data from new buildings and insights into 2020, a remarkable year of disruption for the real estate sector. The examination of the collective data and conversations with the participants provide the basis for this reports’ key learnings and recommendations, which are summarized here:
The real estate sector is ready and willing to share building performance data. Participants in the Challenge demonstrated there is an appetite for data transparency and willing sustainability leaders. Their involvement proves disclosure and data-sharing is possible for both public and private real estate managers anywhere in Canada.