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Resource Private Entities

Model Performance-Based Lease Template

Under a traditional lease arrangement, energy efficiency may not be addressed, and one party—often, the landlord—may carry the burden of investing in efficiency while the other party benefits from the...
Resource Local Governments

NYC’s Model Energy Aligned Lease Provision

NYC’s Model Energy Aligned Lease Provision details language intended to solve the split incentive problem in typical modified gross commercial leases for base buildings.
Resource Foreign

Green Business Leases Model Law

The Chancery Lane Project, a collaborative effort of UK lawyers to develop new contracts and model laws to help fight climate change, has published a model law amending existing UK law to require that...
Resource Local Governments

LBNL report, Quantifying the Effect of the Principal-Agent Problem on US Residential Energy Use

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s 2006 report, Quantifying the Effect of the Principal-Agent Problem on US Residential Energy Use, quantifies the extent that the principal agent problem affects energy ...
Resource Local Governments

San Francisco’s Green Tenant Toolkit

San Francisco’s Green Tenant Toolkit includes a guide to integrating sustainability throughout the life-cycle of commercial leases, toolkits for stakeholder engagement, and a checklist summarizing key...
Resource Local Governments

The Green Lease Library

The Green Lease Library is a centralized site for commercial green leasing resources. Their website catalogs guidance and case studies, public sector green leasing resources, model green leasing langu...
Example Local Governments

Cleveland’s green leasing initiatives

Cleveland was named the first municipal “green lease leader” in the country by the Institute for Market Transformation. Cleveland began implementing green leases in 2013, when it developed its first C...
Model Law States and State Governments

LPDD Model Law: State Green Leases Legislation

Green leasing is an opportunity for owners and tenants to work together in going green. Specifically, a green lease outlines the way in which a building will be occupied, managed, and operated to achi...
Resource Local Governments

California Green Leasing Report and Toolkit

The California Green Leasing Report(and 2017 update) provides information to policymakers and market participants about the role green leasing plays in achieving the benefits of green buildings. The r...
Resource Local Governments

ABC report, Green Leasing

A Better City’s 2014 report, Green Leasing: An Effective Tenant/Landlord Strategy for Energy Efficiency, details how energy disclosure ordinances have increased green leasing adoption, and provides mo...
Resource Private Entities

Vanderbilt report, Employee Energy Benefits

Vanderbilt’s 2017 report, Employee Energy Benefits: What Are They and What Effects Do They Have on Employees?, reports on an exploratory study to address why firms are offering these benefits, includi...
Model Law States and State Governments

LPDD Model Law: Green Commercial Lease Legislation

This model state legislation is intended to assist commercial landlords, tenants and other parties-in-interest in drafting green lease provisions that comply with state green building code requirement...
Resource Local Governments

IMT Green Leasing Resource Library

The Institute for Market Transformation’s resource library contains a variety of think pieces and green leasing case studies from across the United States.