The Better Buildings Partnership (BBP) has launched a revamped Green Lease Toolkit.
The online toolkit contains legal clauses in nearly 20 key areas, covering topics such as: building management, circular economy, waste and renewable energy.
The Green Lease Toolkit caters to a diverse audience, including property owners, occupiers, letting agents, lawyers, managing agents, investors and analysts. All of these stakeholders can benefit from the toolkit content, with the overall objective being to identify actions of mutual value, fostering greater alignment and co-operation to improve the sustainability of commercial buildings.
The toolkit is hosted on the BBP website, ensuring it can be easily adapted and evolved to reflect best practice and learnings, including case studies. The BBP invites industry professionals to explore the toolkit, to unlock the sustainability potential of commercial buildings and to share feedback on their experience.
Sarah Ratcliffe, CEO, Better Buildings Partnership, said:
Our Green Lease Toolkit has been one of the BBP’s most widely utilized tools, helping to inform leading thinking on how leases can support owners’ and occupiers’ sustainability ambitions. We hope that this significant review of the toolkit will enable the whole industry to realise the potential for positive and open dialogue, ultimately driving the delivery of better buildings.
Kirsty Draper, Head of Sustainability – UK Agency JLL, said:
We all know the industry needs radical collaboration to deliver on sustainability. The toolkit encourages and helps provide a framework for that owner occupier collaboration. On a personal level, it has been amazing being part of a team which has put that collaboration into practice to help develop and deliver such an exciting key industry tool.
Siobhan Cross, Partner, Property Group, Pinsent Masons & Main Editor of Legal Working Group, said:
With tenants’ and landlords’ interests increasingly aligned when it comes to reducing carbon emissions and with this decade being critical for significant emissions reductions, this update is timely. It is balanced and will be an important tool as tenants and landlords work together to shift the dial on the environmental performance of leased buildings.
