JLL's Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Index tracks the following sustainability measures in 37 countries: Carbon reporting, energy consumption benchmarking, financial performance, green building certification, green lease clauses, and minimum energy standards for both existing buildings and new builds. It is graded in 5 tiers; Low Transparency, Semi-Transparent, Transparent and Highly Transparent.

Thanks to the introduction of mandatory green building specifications for new constructions of all buildings in the Dubai, JLL has reported that the Emirate has moved into the semi-transparent group for the first time. JLL reported that whilst 17 countries have improved their overall scores since the last survey two years ago, 13 have remained static and three have declined.  Half of all country index improvements have been driven by the introduction of voluntary minimum energy efficiency standards for existing buildings.

Other notable country movers that JLL reported in the index were Finland, a new entrant, moved straight into the 'transparent' tier. The U.S. and Switzerland have improved from the semi-transparent group into transparent. Slovakia, Romania and South Korea have moved from low transparency up to semi-transparent.

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New Buildings in Dubai to be Rated on Green Building Standards