Green building labels beat ESGBy Chen Wen-ching 陳文卿Recently, companies have been pointing out their environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials and communicating their ESG standards. The most straightforward way to ensure that construction firms make environmental protection a top priority would be for “green building labels” to be awarded for using sustainable building materials. The Taiwan Green Building Council has investigated waste and carbon emission reduction in the production of green building materials. If construction companies use recycled green building materials, they could record the benefits they created to their ESG disclosures, such as pollution reduction, and carbon emissions and raw materials procurement. Chen Wen-ching is a director of the Taiwan Green Building Council and a convener of the Taiwan Sustainable Green Construction Union.
