GRESB Response to BBP feedback on the 2019 Real Estate Assessment
The document was prepared by GRESB in response to the written feedback on the 2019 GRESB Real Estate Assessment provided by the members of the BBP. Elements of this document were discussed with the BBP during the in-person meeting kindly hosted by Aberdeen Standard Investments on February 12th, 2020 but could only be made public […]
As the ongoing Covid-19 crisis demonstrates, the ability to understand risk and understanding the impacts and mitigation has been underestimated by a number of businesses and governments around the world. The same can be said of how climate risk is conceived across the economic and political sphere.
GRESB’s interest in Collection and Analysis of ESG Data in Hispanic Countries – El interés de GRESB en la colección y análisis de datos ASG en países hispanos
El 2020 es el inicio de una década que está marcada con cambios radicales en la forma en que vivimos y nos desarrollamos, tanto en lo público como en lo privado, década que demanda acciones ASG de manera urgente; El sector inmobiliario, no es la excepción ya que es responsable del 40% de las emisiones de GEI (Gases de Efecto Invernadero), globales (WGBC, 2019). Los indicadores ambientales, sociales y de gobernanza (ASG), constituyen un sistema de señales que pueden orientar y robustecer a las organizaciones a establecer metas y estrategias para cumplir con sus objetivos de mercado y disminución de riesgos.
Digitalization to advance health and well-being during a moment of crisis
Quarantines and social distancing measures across the globe are driving technology innovations in ways we couldn’t imagine just a couple just a couple months ago. Digital solutions for keeping us connected and safe are evolving rapidly to address new wants and needs. From social platforms to telemedicine, we are dependent on a host of digital solutions to support us through this unprecedented challenge.
Step Up to Digital Transformation to Construct a Sustainable and Smart City
Digitalization is undoubtedly becoming a trending topic in companies’ business across the globe. In this case, how companies use data to seek value and opportunities becomes the key to success in the digital age.
How the Digital Transformation Enhances Real Estate Resilience in an Ever-Changing World
Recent years have seen the development of a wide range of technological solutions enabling companies to enhance resilience, ensuring business and real estate continuity. But, the outbreak of COVID-19 has brought to light the importance of companies to adopt digital solutions. Both landlords and investors alike have bene looking to add digital solutions to their portfolios to enhance efficiency and remain future proof.
Moving the Goalposts: The History of Green Building and Performance
The contemporary concept of green building dates to the development of the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) in the late 1980s and the release of the first version of BREEAM for Offices in 1990. This pioneering tool was followed by the launch of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system in 1998. They have since been joined by many tools to define, evaluate, and recognize superior buildings.
Sustainable buildings: A pragmatic approach to joining the digital transformation
39% – this is a figure the real estate sector knows well too well. And this must change. According to the UN’s Global Status Report, the built environment makes up approximately 39% of the global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. In order to be on track to meet global climate ambitions set forth in the Paris agreement, we need to see a 30% reduction by 2030. Global buildings sector energy demand rose 7% from 2010 to 2019, so drastic action is needed.
Smart Cities and the Global Digital Infrastructure Revolution
As the world begins to emerge from the global COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown measures are eased in the months ahead, the attention of decision makers will begin to shift towards the need to stimulate the recovery and to get economies up and running again. The crisis has already taught us many things, but perhaps one of the most poignant lessons is on the importance of digital infrastructure in sustaining economic activity.
You’ve probably already heard of “digitalization of real estate”. But what is it all about? What is your current state of play? And what are the steps to be taken to achieve it? This article offers you a concrete 4-steps methodology to successfully digitize your real estate portfolio.
Investing for Health: Catalyzing investment in human and social capital
These are certainly challenging times for both the public’s health and for the global economy. We are currently facing an unprecedented pandemic that has upended not only the financial markets, but business as usual.
What Carbon Neutrality Means for the Real Estate Sector
As the global community continues to experience extreme and immediate climate effects, the need for climate action will persist. Since building and construction activities are responsible for 39% of all energy and process-related carbon emissions, real estate corporates have a distinct responsibility to develop ambitious, measurable climate strategies.
Taking a Proactive Approach to Managing Climate Crisis
A blow from increased novel coronavirus fears sent both financial market and stability into freefall. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, daily necessities are becoming scarce because of the fear of supply chain disruptions. We now confront a key question: Is this the new market trend?
Over the past decade, public health research has established a clear and significant connection between where individuals grow up and their lifelong health outcomes. Across the United States, neighborhoods just a few miles away from one another can have average life expectancies that differ by up to 30 years.
We are now in a critical period requiring rapid and urgent action to retrofit our buildings in a bid to address climate change. The Paris Agreement set a global imperative to restrict global warming to 2⁰C or below. To achieve this ambition, global greenhouse gas emissions need to reduce rapidly today with developed economies ultimately becoming Net Zero by 2050. We cannot afford to bide our time and cut emissions later.
Space utilization – Market trends and transformation
Everyone agrees that an image is worth 1,000 words. In his book ‘Information Visualization’, Colin Ware states: “The eye and the visual cortex of the brain form a massive parallel processor that provides the highest-bandwidth channel into human cognitive centers.” With the human visual system processing more information than all other senses combined, visuals can be deciphered by the brain much quicker than written information.
Pivoting for 2020: Urgent ESG Trends Transforming Global CRE
2020 is marked by urgent global sustainability issues that are deeply inter-dependent. Safe-guarding human health, climate action and stabilizing the global economy have risen to the top of our list of priorities.
Global focus has shifted significantly towards climate change and the actions that governments, businesses and individuals are taking to mitigate its impacts. The term “net zero” specifically, has generated tangible traction. For the real estate industry, a driving force to transition towards net zero has been the World Green Building Council (WGBC) and their Advancing Net Zero (ANZ) project which first launched in June 2016.
