CRREM North America Project
What is CRREM?
The Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor (CRREM) is a global initiative for establishing targets for operational carbon emissions for standing real estate investments consistent with the ambitions of the Paris agreement. CRREM released decarbonization pathways that translate the efforts of limiting global warming to 1.5°C by the end of the century into regionally- and property-type-specific trajectories. Investors use the CRREM tool to assess, price, and mitigate carbon performance and stranded asset risk in their real estate investments. Learn more about CRREM here.
CRREM Global Resources
- Methodology Document
- Reference Guide
- CRREM Website
- CRREM North America Working Group FAQs
- CRREM Foundation Press Release – 12.2024
What is the CRREM North America Project?
Driven by ULI member requests, CRREM, ULI, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) partnered to create more granular curves for the US and Canada. The project team engaged hundreds of diverse real estate industry stakeholders to inform this process by hosting a virtual working group.The five virtual working group sessions were open to the public for the real estate industry to provide feedback on the project’s priorities, such as including additional data sources, to enable more granular curves for North America. See below for final project deliverables:
- Project Summary
- Final Project Update Webinar Slides
- Final Project Update Webinar Recording
- ULI Memo: Best Practices for Using CRREM Curves and Decarbonization Pathways
- ULI Memo: Out-of-Scope Project Stakeholder Feedback
- To learn more, check out Elena Alschuler’s podcast interview with Nareit, where she discusses the CRREM North America Project from her role as working group chair.
- Technical Resources for CRREM
- ESPM Analysis
How can I get involved?
The working group sessions have concluded but you can email [email protected] to be added to our email updates.
Working Group Materials
Draft Deliverables
The project team hosted a 45-day public comment period to collect stakeholder feedback on the draft deliverables. Find public comment submissions here. The Draft Methodology Memo, Draft Curves, and Draft Curve Inputs are posted below for reference (not official use).
Working Group Sessions
- Session 1: “CRREM 101” and opportunities to improve the North American curves (May 2nd, 11:00am ET)
- Session 2: Deep dive into half of the prioritized opportunities (June 6th, 11:00am ET)
- Session 3: Deep dive into half of the prioritized opportunities (June 21st, 11:00am ET)
- Session 4: Discussion on stakeholder feedback about EUI (October 5th, 12:00pm ET)
- Session 5: Presentation of draft CRREM curves for North America and start of 30 day public comment period (April 17th, 11:00am ET)