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title: REIT Executives Lay Out Roadmap for Sustainability in Near Term
description: <p>Mark Peternell, Vice President, Sustainability at Regency Centers joined attendees at NAREIT’s 2015 Leader in the Light Working Forum in Reston, VA, where he spoke about the future of sustainability in real estate.</p>
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# [REIT Executives Lay Out Roadmap for Sustainability in Near Term](https://connect.regencycenters.com/blog/reit-executives-lay-roadmap-sustainability-near-term/)

 Written by [Stephanie Parisi](https://connect.regencycenters.com/blog/author/stephanie-parisi) | Feb 16

Mark Peternell, Vice President, Sustainability at Regency Centers joined attendees at [NAREIT’s 2015 Leader in the Light Working Forum](https://www.reit.com/nareit/events/leader-light-working-forum/2015-leader-light-working-forum) in Reston, VA, where he spoke about the future of sustainability in real estate. To view the working forum, [please click here](https://www.reit.com/news/videos/reit-executives-lay-out-roadmap-sustainability-near-term).

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> I think we will continue to see demand for increased transparency and disclosure on sustainability. We believe the transparency is a positive for the market, we've seen that with the emergence of GRESB \[Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark\] over the past three or four years, things such as the carbon disclosure project and GRI \[Global Reporting Initiative.\] I think we will continue to see an increase in the request for disclosure both at a corporate level and also at an asset level. We're seeing that now in certain markets with building labeling requirements, says Mark Peternell, Vice President, Sustainability at Regency Centers

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