The built environment sector’s progress on climate change has come to a standstill, Paul Morrell has said in an interview with Cohesive’s chief value officer David Philp at this year’s Digital Construction Summit.
“Climate change should be our first priority – but I don’t see an increase in the ESG (environmental, social, governance) agenda at the moment,” he said during the discussion on Digital and technology’s role in driving ESG.
“I talked to a client – a responsible developer who I respect greatly – three years ago, who said that the ESG agenda was the fastest-growing issue for his business in his working lifetime. But recently, he acknowledged it had drifted away. Increasingly, investors are divesting of investments that were bought for ESG reasons, as they clearly don’t see the market value in them.
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