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Building a Greener Future

Continuing our series on the environment, John Manning and Richard White, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, look at current tax policies for incentivising the real estate and construction industries into going greener

 
Continuing our series on the environment John Manning and Richard White PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP look at current tax policies for incentivising the real estate and construction industries into going greener
What behaviour should be changed?
 
The Stern Report recommended three key policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions and stabilise global warming: putting a price on carbon; urgently boosting low-carbon technologies; and encouraging people to change their behaviour.
 
The report states that 'Putting an appropriate price on carbon — explicitly through tax or trading...

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