Green leases for hotels – what you need to know

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• CMS Cameron McKenna

There maybe misconceptions as to what a 'Green Lease' entails. There is no legal requirement to make leases green. Through the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive now we have DECs (Display Energy Certificates) and EPCs (Energy Performance Certificates), but arguably these rating systems go nowhere near as far towards establishing a sustainability framework as the Australian Building Greenhouse Rules.

Absent changes in valuation methods to attribute a value to greenness, the primary... (179 more words)

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