Contract and Green Lease Specifications

Commercial buildings are significant consumers of energy, and generate large amounts of solid waste. Regulations dictate that owners or managers put programs in place to meet reduction targets, but it’s the tenants who ultimately generate the waste, often behind closed doors. Commercial leases rarely address shared or unilateral waste management objectives. Lease structures are typically designed so that either landlords or tenants will each sometimes have all or most of the economic incentive to cooperate or conserve, and conversely each may have little or no incentive to co-operate or conserve.