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A new era for GRESB – Building on strong foundations
AMSTERDAM, (November 16, 2020, 16:00 CET) – GRESB Management is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Summit Partners to acquire GRESB from GBCI. The GRESB team would like to thank GBCI for the support it has provided over the last six years to advance sustainable real assets and for allowing us to take […]
GRESB 2020 Results: Infrastructure sector maturing its approach to ESG reporting and benchmarking
AMSTERDAM, (November 12, 2020): GRESB, the global environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmark for real assets, has released the results for the 2020 GRESB Infrastructure Assessment. Despite the challenges posed by the Covid-19 crisis, participation has increased again in 2020 as the sector responds to the growing investor demand for standardized and validated ESG data […]
Rick Walters, GRESB’s Director Infrastructure comments on the readiness of the Infrastructure asset class for the coming EU regulations in this year’s Sustainable Investing Report from Infrastructure Investor. Rick’s article compares the 2020 Infrastructure Fund Assessment with the 32 specified indicators of the SFDR reporting requirements. This exercise showed that the 2020 Infrastructure Fund Assessment […]
5 key takeaways from the 3rd annual Nordea GRESB Green Building Forum
Nordea just published an article with five key takeaways from the event on their Open Insights page. You can also read the article below. New data streams providing asset-level intelligence are revolutionising sustainable finance in the real estate sector, but there is still a critical need for more harmonisation and benchmarking when it comes to […]
New WorldGBC report outlines how the Asia Pacific can build back better by tackling embodied carbon in built environment
The World Green Building Council launches new report outlining the climate and business benefits of tackling embodied carbon in Asia Pacific and calls for net zero emissions by 2050 in the built environment 24 September 2020, London, UK – The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) launched a new report today focused on the Asia Pacific […]
The 2020 GRESB Benchmark expands its coverage to US $5.3 trillion AuM amid growing demand for comparable and reliable ESG data
AMSTERDAM, August 24, 2020 – We’re excited to announce that participation in the GRESB Assessments has grown by 18% this year to cover the ESG performance of more than 1,700 real estate and infrastructure portfolios and assets. This increase comes despite the pressures of the Covid-19 pandemic and is testament to an industry-wide commitment to ESG transparency and collaborative action on sustainability.
GRESB Newsletter | Despite Covid, the GRESB ESG benchmark has grown again this year
The 2020 GRESB reporting period is over, and even during Covid, we are excited to announce that the number of GRESB Participants increased again this year. This is testament to all of the hard-working teams who collected the data, worked through the challenges, and coordinated the reporting. The 2020 Benchmark now covers more than US $5.3 trillion AuM (2019: US $4.5 trillion).
GRESB Newsletter | Complete your Assessment before time runs out
It’s been another busy month for GRESB with the launch of the new Climate Risk Platform, a data collaboration with Nikkei Inc., and joint-projects with our members and Industry Partners. But as there are only 2 weeks left before the 2020 reporting period ends, we wanted to start with 4 quick Assessment reminders:
