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Global Sustainability Perspective June 2012 Jones Lang LaSalle
GLOBAL
SUSTAINABILITY PERSPECTIVE
Half-yearly Magazine | June 2012
Welcome to Global Sustainability Perspective, a half-yearly publication developed
by executives of Jones Lang LaSalle to highlight real estate energy and sustainability issues
worldwide. You’re holding the first issue to be printed on paper, but our team has been discussing
and writing about global energy and sustainability concerns on a quarterly basis for more than two
years. Our initial goal was to foster a better understanding of what sustainability means around the
world on behalf of our global clients, including international real estate investors and multi-national
corporations. Along the way, we have learned that the discipline of sharing information from around
the world has uncovered ideas and practices that enrich our own knowledge and ultimately make us
all better at what we do.
In this issue we focus on Sustainable Urban Development and look at how the “Eco City” vision is
influencing the way cities are planned, built, lived and worked in. We comment on issues that stem
from thinking about the ultimate goal – built environments that provide environmental, social and
economic quality for today’s and for tomorrow’s citizens and organizations.
As a companion piece, we explore factors that define a sustainable neighborhood within a city and
examine the catalysts which we use with developers, city authorities and investors to model the
performance of these projects and measure their long-term success.
And in another timely feature, we note that planners of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London believe it
will be the greenest Games in history. With a couple of generations of lessons learned, from Montreal’s
Summer Games of 1976 to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, they may well prove to be correct – at least,
until 2016, when Olympics host city Rio de Janeiro plans to take sustainability to even greater lengths.
I hope you find this publication informative and helpful in understanding the complexities and
commonalities of sustainable real estate that we all face in balancing the long-term needs of
society with the immediate needs of commerce and quality of life.
Dan Probst
Chairman, Energy and Sustainability Services,
Jones Lang LaSalle
Table of Contents
1
Eco Cities
10
Urbanization & Sustainability
Focus on Asia
20
Australia’s Aggressive
New Green Mandates
28
The City of Light Goes Electric
Is Paris providing the model
for all cities to follow?
2
Olympian Steps
for Sustainability
12
China’s Five-Year Plan
Banking on sustainability
as a growth engine
22
City Conditions:
What real estate investors
know and don’t know about
climate change
30
LEED’s International Impact
An insider’s view
7
Catalyst for Sustainable
Neighborhood Development
Our model for developers and investors
18
The Growth of Eco Cities
A Chinese perspective
26
Changing U.S. Logistics Patterns
Bode Well for Sustainability
33
Introducing Sustainability
Transparency
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