The future of ESG will need to utilize the driving force of financial institutions to mitigate the unequivocal level of capital at risk stemming from these twin emergencies. The return for this action will be progress towards the sustained use of the largest common resource, the natural environment. If businesses continue to treat it like ‘share & tear’ bread, it will similarly disappear too quickly.
As host of the 2021 GRESB Infrastructure Results events, Quinn & Partners asked six longstanding investor, corporate, and consultant representatives, to provide their top insights into GRESB.
Currently, ESG reporting is not mandatory in all countries, however, companies are still choosing to disclose voluntarily and making this practice business as usual. Read more about how to navigate ESG reporting in the real estate industry in this insightful article written by Carbon Intelligence.
Four members of GRESB’s infrastructure team attended the summit, lending their insights and expertise across a range of panels as moderators and speakers. In case you weren’t able to attend or just want a quick recap, we’ve compiled their impressions below.
By aligning on a common set of metrics, the industry can commit to validating both the health and financial outcomes of ESG investments within the built environment.
Trends & challenges with standardizing Corporate ESG Disclosures
Despite lingering questions about ESG reporting, movements in the market are signalling the eventual formation of a ‘universal’ ESG reporting standard.
The regulatory landscape surrounding climate change and Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) issues remains in a constant state of evolution. It will be necessary for organizations going forward to remain agile in their ability to conform and adapt to the ever-changing regulatory environment and ensure that climate-related legislation reviews are a routine part of an organization’s operations.
The Embodied Carbon in Real Estate webinar, held on February 17, 2022, was an opportunity to learn more about the role the built environment plays in addressing climate change. The webinar generated a great deal of conversation and prompted several important questions, which is why GRESB and eTool collaborated once more to further disseminate knowledge […]
Demystifying climate risk and the TCFD recommendations
Understanding your organization’s climate-related risks and opportunities has never been more critical. The most recent report from the UN’s IPCC on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability is a review of climate impacts and how much we can adapt to them.
What does the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) mean for construction?
Our industry is engaged in an important dialogue to improve sustainability through ESG transparency and industry collaboration. This article is a contribution to this larger conversation and does not necessarily reflect GRESB’s position. International Emission Policy Europe is taking policy action as it works to achieve its climate change commitments for carbon neutrality by 2050. […]
Our industry is engaged in an important dialogue to improve sustainability through ESG transparency and industry collaboration. This article is a contribution to this larger conversation and does not necessarily reflect GRESB’s position. Looking back, it is fair to say 2021 was the year of climate commitments. Against the backdrop of the latest Intergovernmental Panel […]
Women in STEM and why you should have them by your side
Our industry is engaged in an important dialogue to improve sustainability through ESG transparency and industry collaboration. This article is a contribution to this larger conversation and does not necessarily reflect GRESB’s position. Last Friday, February 11th, was International Day of Women and Girls in Science. And to mark it, we wanted to shine a […]
Influence of ESG factors on the performance of private equity real estate funds in APAC
Sustainability has been gaining traction as a concept in recent times. However, the focus for fund managers appears to be fundamentally still on the bottom line, building the case for understanding the relationship between Environment, Social, Governance (ESG) factors and financial returns. The relatively young nature of the topic of sustainability coupled with the paucity of data available within the private real estate fund industry has resulted in a generally underdeveloped understanding of how ESG factors correlate with the performance of private real estate funds, especially so in APAC where the industry is at a more nascent stage compared to the European and US markets.
Ready, Set, Goals: While COP26 Spurred Climate Ambition, the Private Sector Responds With Climate Action
The United Nation’s 26th annual climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland updated commitments to achieve global climate targets and sounded a call to action for climate priorities across sectors.
A group of Infrastructure debt investors including Aviva Investors, LGIM Real Assets, Macquarie Asset Management, Aberdeen Investments, BlackRock, Allianz Global Investors and one other, have been working on behalf of the sector to develop an Environmental, Social and Governance Covenant Package. The initiative aims to:
Industry Best Practices within the 2020 ESG (R)evolution Decade
ll industries have seen a great sustainable force and impulse; an incremental change along all its business supply chain; actually, a challenge that is demanding a transformation, from an ESG perspective. Since the beginning of the 2020 decade, followed by the global pandemic and natural disasters – that are more common and stronger than ever – the world is facing the beginning of the ESG (R)evolution.
The power of worker voice in creating transparency in cleaning supply chains
Investors focus on sustainability reporting has traditionally been strongest in the E (environmental) and G (governance) aspects of ESG. There have been some impressive gains in these areas, particularly regarding the environment due to the urgency of action highlighted in numerous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. Investor involvement has helped shift business and […]
How energy and sustainability management can help countries meet their COP26 goals
At the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland, world leaders made non-binding targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions and move beyond the pledge of net-zero emissions towards operating at a carbon-negative level – meaning they absorb more climate-changing emissions than they produce each year. These promises are well and good, but they must be backed up […]
