Energy & Emissions
The Energy & Emissions team tracks operational carbon across the world's standing stock — benchmarking laws, building-emissions caps, retrofit economics, and the regimes that enforce them.
What we research
The Energy & Emissions team measures how the world's standing building stock performs under the regulatory regimes that govern it. Every serious city now requires large buildings to disclose energy use, report emissions, or meet an intensity cap. The team turns those disclosures into comparable, analytical pictures of where buildings stand and what they owe.
The New York Sustainability Index is the team's inaugural release — five maps built from the city's Local Law 84 benchmarking data and the Covered Buildings List for Local Law 97. Future releases will extend the method to London (under MEES and the forthcoming BPIE regime), Toronto, Singapore, Sydney, and Paris, each grounded in that city's specific disclosure law.
We publish alongside releases of the Index, and we work directly with policy staff, owners, and compliance teams who need grounded numbers about the stock they are responsible for.
Current focus areas
- Local Law 84 benchmarking analysis and year-over-year trajectory
- Local Law 97 penalty exposure modeling and scenario planning
- MEES and international disclosure regimes (UK, EU, Singapore, Australia)
- Retrofit economics under building-emissions cap regimes
Recent publications
First publications in preparation.
Team lead
Jeremy Edwards — Founder and Director of Research.