Ed Blackburn
Global Climate Resilience and Due Diligence Lead
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Ed is Global Climate Resilience and Due Diligence Lead within CBRE's Sustainability Advisory team. With over 25 years in environmental and sustainability markets, 15+ at CBRE, Ed leads the firm's climate risk and sustainability due diligence practice, helping institutional investors, private equity firms, and corporate occupiers identify physical and transition climate risks across their portfolios and individual assets. From that foundation, he shapes resilience strategies, asset-level assessments, and decarbonisation roadmaps that translate climate exposure into commercial decisions. Clients value Ed's ability to move seamlessly from diagnosis to strategy – recognising what the risks mean and what to do about them.