Julia St Michael

Julia brings over 15 years of experience advancing sustainable buildings and ESG integration across commercial real estate and district energy. She supports organizations in strengthening environmental performance and accelerating decarbonization across complex portfolios. Previously, she led ESG strategy implementation and reporting at CAPREIT, advancing climate risk integration, environmental benchmarking, investor reporting, and portfolio-wide performance improvements across a national multi-family portfolio. Julia is an active leader within Canada’s green building community, including involvement with CAGBC, REALPAC, BOMA Toronto, and ULI. Property managers are increasingly being asked to improve comfort, control costs and prepare assets for lower-carbon heating, but heat-pump retrofits often stall between the mechanical room and the capital plan. This session brings together a panel of experts to examine how operating needs can become investable projects. Drawing on Toronto 2030 D