{"id":17804,"date":"2021-09-29T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/09\/29\/cushman-wakefield-commits-to-industry-leading-science-based-targets-and-reaching-net-zero-emissions-across-its-value-chain-by-2050\/"},"modified":"2021-09-29T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T07:20:00","slug":"cushman-wakefield-commits-to-industry-leading-science-based-targets-and-reaching-net-zero-emissions-across-its-value-chain-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/09\/29\/cushman-wakefield-commits-to-industry-leading-science-based-targets-and-reaching-net-zero-emissions-across-its-value-chain-by-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"Cushman &#038; Wakefield Commits to Industry-Leading Science Based Targets and Reaching Net Zero Emissions Across Its Value Chain by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>HONG KONG SAR&#13;<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 29&#13;<br \/>\nSeptember 2021 &#8211;<b>\u00a0<\/b>Cushman &amp; Wakefield&#13;<br \/>\n(NYSE: CWK), a leading global real estate services firm, recently announced&#13;<br \/>\nambitious science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that&#13;<br \/>\nare approved by the <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencebasedtargets.org\/\">Science Based Targets initiative<\/a> (SBTi). In addition, by signing up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencebasedtargets.org\/business-ambition-for-1-5c\">Business Ambition for 1.5\u00baC<\/a> campaign, Cushman &amp; Wakefield pledges to reach net zero emissions&#13;<br \/>\nacross its entire value chain by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;With&#13;<br \/>\nbuildings generating a significant portion of the world&#8217;s carbon emissions, we&#13;<br \/>\nrecognize Cushman &amp; Wakefield plays a vital role in shaping a sustainable&#13;<br \/>\nfuture for the real estate industry and beyond,&#8221; said <b>Brett White, Executive&#13;<br \/>\nChairman &amp; CEO of Cushman &amp; Wakefield<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cushman &amp; Wakefield will immediately&#13;<br \/>\nfocus efforts on its corporate offices and operations by committing to reduce&#13;<br \/>\nabsolute scope 1 and 2 market-based GHG emissions 50% by 2030 from a 2019 base&#13;<br \/>\nyear. Scope 1 includes direct emissions, and scope 2 emissions are from&#13;<br \/>\npurchased heat and electricity. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nscience-based targets will not only reduce absolute GHG emissions from its&#13;<br \/>\ncorporate operations, but will also include the facilities it manages on behalf&#13;<br \/>\nof its clients, some of the world&#8217;s largest real estate owners and occupiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leading by example, the firm commits to&#13;<br \/>\npartnering with its clients (representing 70% of its scope 3 value chain&#13;<br \/>\nemissions) to set their own science-based targets by 2025. Notably,&#13;<br \/>\napproximately 99% of Cushman &amp; Wakefield&#8217;s emissions come from facilities&#13;<br \/>\nit manages on behalf of clients, and the firm is committed to actualizing its&#13;<br \/>\nvision of a sustainable future that extends beyond its own corporate footprint.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These targets have been <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencebasedtargets.org\/companies-taking-action#table\">approved by the SBTi<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, by 2050, the firm pledges to&#13;<br \/>\nachieve net zero emissions across its entire value chain, encompassing all&#13;<br \/>\ndirect and indirect business elements that contribute to GHG emissions (scopes&#13;<br \/>\n1, 2 and 3). This target was pledged through the Race to Zero campaign and the&#13;<br \/>\nSBTi&#8217;s Business Ambition for 1.5\u00b0C pathway\u2014initiatives using climate science&#13;<br \/>\nframeworks to reach net zero in a global effort to avoid the most catastrophic&#13;<br \/>\nimpacts of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a leader&#13;<br \/>\nin the commercial real estate industry, we understand environmental action&#13;<br \/>\nrequires bold commitments aligned with climate science,&#8221; said <b>John&#13;<br \/>\nForrester, President of Cushman &amp; Wakefield<\/b>. &#8220;These commitments further&#13;<br \/>\nour ongoing efforts to reduce our impact and our clients&#8217; impact on the&#13;<br \/>\nenvironment as well as mitigate the impacts of climate change. We have an&#13;<br \/>\nopportunity and responsibility to continually evaluate our organization and&#13;<br \/>\nhold ourselves accountable for the intended outcomes. We realize our work goes&#13;<br \/>\nbeyond the present moment and will impact generations to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We congratulate Cushman &amp; Wakefield&#13;<br \/>\non setting science-based targets consistent with limiting warming to 1.5\u00b0C, the&#13;<br \/>\nmost ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement,&#8221; said <b>Alberto Carrillo&#13;<br \/>\nPineda, Managing Director, Science Based Targets at CDP, one of the SBTi&#13;<br \/>\npartners<\/b>. &#8220;By setting ambitious science-based targets grounded in&#13;<br \/>\nclimate science, Cushman &amp; Wakefield is taking action to prevent the most&#13;<br \/>\ndamaging effects of climate change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These recently announced science-based&#13;<br \/>\ntargets build upon Cushman &amp; Wakefield&#8217;s longstanding commitment to&#13;<br \/>\nreducing its own environmental impact across the property life cycle, in&#13;<br \/>\naddition to suppliers&#8217; and clients&#8217; impact. In 2020, the firm achieved a 1.1% absolute&#13;<br \/>\nreduction in scope 1 and 2 (market-based) GHG emissions; a 2.5% absolute&#13;<br \/>\nreduction in scope 3 GHG emissions; and a 14% reduction in total scope 1 and 2&#13;<br \/>\nGHG emissions per million square feet (MSF) of office space. Cushman &amp;&#13;<br \/>\nWakefield also worked with clients to provide energy and sustainability&#13;<br \/>\nservices to over 370 MSF of space in the U.S. in 2020. More information is&#13;<br \/>\navailable in the firm&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cushmanwakefield.com\/en\/about-us\/corporate-social-responsibility\">2020 Corporate Social Responsibility Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cushmanwakefield.com\/en\/insights\/sustainability#SBTi\">Learn more<\/a> about Cushman &amp; Wakefield&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nscience-based targets and net zero commitment. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-09-29\/96670\/cushman-wakefield-commits-to-industry-leading-science-based-targets-and-reaching-net-zero-emissions-across-its-value-chain-by-2050\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG SAR&#13; &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 29&#13; September 2021 &#8211;\u00a0Cushman &amp; Wakefield&#13; (NYSE: CWK), a leading global real estate services firm, recently announced&#13; ambitious science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that&#13; are approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). In addition, by signing up to the Business Ambition for 1.5\u00baC campaign, Cushman &amp; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}