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Commercial real estate has an enormous impact on environmental sustainability.Commercial buildings generate about 40 per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions in the world’s developed countries. So if you want to limit greenhouse gases, buildings must be part of the solution. At JLL we provide a comprehensive range of real estate services and investment management advice for our clients. A Fortune 500 company, we serve commercial real estate owners, occupiers, and investors in more than 80 countries around the world with a global workforce of more than 60,000. One of our service areas focuses on sustainability, energy management, and green buildings as they relate to commercial property. We think we lead our industry in this field, including as the world’s top employer of LEED Accredited Professionals and Green Associates. We manage about 4 billion square feet (372 million square metres) of space globally for our clients. It would take 6,700 Shard buildings in London or 800 Burj Khalifas in Dubai to reach the size of our management portfolio. This is in addition to the US$56 billion of real estate assets that our LaSalle Investment Management subsidiary manages for clients. That size creates significant opportunities to make a major, positive impact on the sustainability of our clients’ real estate. During 2015 we helped deliver estimated energy savings for US clients of 424 million kWh (247,000 metric tonnes of CO2e), equating to estimated cost savings of US$47 million, roughly equivalent to the average annual energy consumption of more than 26,000 homes. We also advised on renewable CHRISTIAN ULBRICH, CEO, JONES LANG LASALLE INCORPORATED (JLL)MANAGING REAL ESTATE IS CRITICAL TO MANAGING CLIMATE CHANGE110 COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE