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  • December 2019

    2020 GRESB Real Estate Assessments Development

    GRESB assesses and benchmarks the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance of real assets, providing standardized and validated data to capital markets. We were established in 2009 by a group of large pension funds who wanted to have access to reliable data on the ESG performance of their investments. In the intervening years, we have […]

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  • December 2019

    Reflecting on the last 10 years of GRESB and preparing for what’s ahead

    Mainstreaming ESG benchmarking in real assets  10 years ago, APG, PGGM and USS came together with the University of Maastricht to design a real estate survey. They wanted more transparency on the ESG performance of their real estate investments and a closer engagement with their managers. The inaugural Real Estate Assessment was launched in 2009, […]

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  • November 2019

    GRESB and Verisk Maplecroft Launch the Climate Risk & Resilience Scorecard

    Amsterdam and London, November 12, 2019 – GRESB, the global ESG benchmark for real assets and Verisk Maplecroft, the leading provider of global ESG, climate and political risk analytics, have jointly launched the Climate Risk & Resilience Scorecard. Combining Verisk Maplecroft’s global risk analytics with GRESB’s geo-coded asset-data and adaptation measures, the scorecard provides location-specific […]

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  • October 2019

    2019 GRESB Results Photo Round up

    The 2019 GRESB Results events period is almost over- with 22 events being held across 4 continents and 14 countries.

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  • September 2019

    Health & Well-being in Real Estate

    This report utilizes findings from three years of data gathered by the GRESB Health & Well-being Module to provide real estate companies and investors with insights regarding the current state of practice and guidance on how to increase consideration of health and well-being within their approach to ESG.

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  • September 2019

    Investors fund new initiative to assess climate change transition risk in global real estate investment portfolios

    Amsterdam, September 16, 2019 – An investor-led initiative launched today will help real estate investors and managers to assess, manage and mitigate climate risk and to develop climate scenario-based strategies. The research will be carried out by the Austria-based Institute for Real Estate Economics (IIÖ), with the support of GRESB, the ESG Benchmark for Real […]

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  • September 2019

    ESG reporting and benchmarking in the Infrastructure sector moves into the mainstream

    GRESB, the environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmark for real assets, has released the results for the 2019 GRESB Infrastructure Assessment.

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  • September 2019

    GPR launches ESG-focused regional index series based on GRESB data

    Global Property Research (GPR), a specialized provider of benchmarking solutions covering the listed real estate sector, launches three index series containing real estate companies with an overlay provided by the leading real asset ESG data provider GRESB.

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  • August 2019

    Sustainable Finance Industry Guide

    We want to see more green finance unlocked in our industry. That’s why we are pleased to collaborate with the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA), NABERS and the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) in developing this Sustainable Finance Industry Guide. The guide covers: How our collective customers can use our programs to maximize the financial […]

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