By Helen Gurfel

This post marks my first time at COP (Conference of Parties). COP21 is the 21st conference since the United Nations started hosting an annual convening of world leaders to coordinate a cooperative effort to tackle climate change. Many participants have expressed hope that a new universal agreement on climate change will be signed and enforced by all nations by 2020.

On December 3, as executive director of ULI’s Greenprint Center for Building Performance, I participated in the U.N. conference on climate change, and more specifically in the conference’s Buildings Day, representing ULI in signing on to an alliance of organizations committed to driving the real estate and construction sector on the “below 2 degrees Celsius path” – a necessary path if we are going to curtail the adverse effects of climate change.

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