CBRE grapples with emissions data headache

CBRE is on a path to net zero, but one glance at its progress suggests something has gone wrong. Reported emissions last year did not fall; they rose sixfold.

Between updates on initiatives that have cut greenhouse gas emissions at CBRE, there was one extraordinary – even baffling – figure in the company’s 2020 Corporate Responsibility Report: Scope 3 emissions had apparently risen from 58m MT CO₂e in 2019 to 361m MT CO₂e in 2020.