Who we are
GRESB is a mission-driven, industry-led organization that empowers the financial industry to advance environmental, operational, and financial sustainability across real assets in climate-critical industries.
Since 2009, we’ve been a strategic partner to investors, managers, and financial institutions, creating transparency in the industries they invest in, fostering productive engagement around material topics relating to efficiency, risk management, resilience, and long-term value creation—providing actionable benchmarks and insights for sustainable growth.
As a benefit corporation and certified B Corp, we’re committed to helping our members navigate complex business issues sustainably and drive positive returns across the globe.
Our vision:
An investment industry that plays a central role in creating a sustainable world
Our mission:
To provide financial markets with actionable sustainability insights, data, and benchmarks
Our values:
Leadership, dedication, collaboration, integrity, and transparency
How we work
Assessment Participant Members
GRESB provides a rigorous methodology and consistent framework to evaluate and benchmark the performance of real assets, guided by the material issues identified by investors and industry leaders.
Through a GRESB Participant Membership, companies, funds, and assets self-report data to an asset class–specific GRESB Assessment on a regular cycle, with data being validated by a third party and scored to generate a relevant benchmark for the industry.
The GRESB Benchmarks align with regulatory schemes and global sustainability priorities, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Climate Agreement, and major international reporting frameworks. Participant Members receive a customized Benchmark Report and other insights, which they can choose to share with investors, that provides:
- Clear data into the sustainable performance of investments
- Actionable insights to guide strategic growth
- Recognition and differentiation to stand out in a crowded market
- Opportunities to enhance financial performance over the long term
Investor Members
Drawing from the assessments, GRESB publishes aggregated benchmark insights showing the current state and progress of the global real assets industry. These insights are paired with individual Benchmark Reports, which Investor Members can request through the GRESB Portal, to inform engagement conversations and decision-making.
The Standards that underpin the GRESB Benchmarks evolve over time, ensuring that data, scores, rankings, and ratings reflect relative performance and evolving sustainability expectations.
GRESB Participants report data to a specific GRESB Assessment each year on a regular cycle, which are validated by a third party and scored before being used to generate the following performance benchmarks for the industry:
- Real Estate Benchmark
- Real Estate Development Benchmark
- Infrastructure Fund Benchmark
- Infrastructure Asset Benchmark
Each year, GRESB publishes the global aggregated benchmark data showing the state of the industry. The benchmark itself evolves over time, ensuring that scores reflect relative performance and evolving sustainability expectations.
How we are governed
Created in 2009, GRESB is composed of an independent foundation and a benefit corporation (certified B Corp). Working together, the GRESB Foundation focuses on the development, approval, and management of the GRESB Standards while GRESB BV performs industry assessments and provides value-added products and services to GRESB Members and Asset Impact clients.
The owner of the standards upon which assessments are based, the GRESB Foundation is composed of a foundation board as well as standard committees and working groups consisting of investors, managers and industry partners.
A benefit corporation and certified B Corp, GRESB BV is responsible for administering the assessments, providing the benchmarks, developing new solutions and supporting GRESB members. The majority shareholder of GRESB BV is General Atlantic.
As a member-led organization, GRESB is committed to listening to and working closely with the industries it serves. Throughout the year, industry working groups examine specific topics relevant to the GRESB standards, assessments, benchmarks and related services to ensure they are reflective of industry needs.
The GRESB Foundation oversees the development and maintenance of GRESB Standards.
GRESB BV will continue to be responsible for administering the GRESB Assessments, providing the benchmarks, promoting widespread adoption of the GRESB Standards and supporting investor and participant members.
GRESB BV is a benefit corporation and B-Corp certified.
Sustainability at GRESB
As a profit-for-purpose company, GRESB BV believes in making business a force for good, and we are guided by our vision of an investment industry that plays a central role in creating a sustainable world. The core of our work is focused on assessing and benchmarking the sustainability performance of real assets and providing standardized and validated data to capital markets. Through our assessments, benchmarks, and related products, we:
- Enable investors to make more informed decisions for the benefit of society, the environment, and the economy
- Empower companies, managers, and asset operators to improve their sustainability performance through insights and best practices
- Encourage the wider real assets industry to embrace and promote responsible transparency and collective action
With the establishment of the GRESB Foundation in 2022, steward of the GRESB Standards upon which GRESB assessments are based, we are now able to engage more closely with the stakeholders we serve and the wider industry to further advance our mission. Our governance structure, including the GRESB Foundation, ensures the independence of the standards.
While GRESB’s core business model is dedicated to driving sustainable practices across the industry, we also acknowledge the impact of our own operations. We are committed to aligning our own practices with the commitments we promote globally. Our own sustainability journey will start by conducting a broader materiality assessment of our corporate operations to identify the most significant sustainability actions we can take.
Sustainability reporting
You can find details about sustainability at GRESB here. In addition to tracking the sustainability of our operations, we have also made an extensive commitment towards driving a Net Zero transformation by joining the Net Zero Service Providers Alliance and is now certified as a B-Corp.
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