Invitation to express interest in collaborating on EU regulatory reporting and assessment

The upcoming EU regulations are a significant development for the real assets sector. The most important regulations are the EU Taxonomy (EU-T), the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD). These regulations will require a step change from the industry in terms of transparency as it pertains to environmental, social and governance criteria and the need for more aligned, comprehensive and quality ESG reporting. GRESB is committed to helping its members address these regulations.

GRESB recognises that these new regulations represent a challenge to the industry and that GRESB Members and Partners have considerable expertise in addressing such challenges. We therefore invite Members and Partners to express their interest in collaborating on EU regulatory reporting and assessment. This is intended to be on a voluntary basis, with recognition provided for input.

Project scope: 

• Clarify legal requirements, technical guidance and timing for EU regulations
• Develop an EU regulatory reporting and assessment solution
• Map out which EU-T, SFDR and NFRD criteria are already mapped in the GRESB Assessments (for Real Estate and Infrastructure, respectively) and which criteria need to be evaluated separately
• Define format and scope of input parameters via the GRESB Assessments and/or separate module(s)
• Define format and scope or GRESB EU regulatory reports

Collaborative input:

Opportunities to collaborate with GRESB include:

• Providing specialist advice (e.g. legal, technical)
• Reviewing, testing and piloting assessments and reports
• Other input relating to the project scope

Expression of interest

GRESB Members and Partners, please send us your expression of interest by January 15, 2021, using this form.

We will only consider applications that include details on:

• Reason for submitting the expression of interest
• The organisation’s qualifications for involvement in the project
• Capabilities you intend to bring to the project
• Resource allocation to the project
• Deliverables you would like to work on
• How you would like to collaborate
• References to involvement in other similar projects (if applicable)

We will evaluate all applications and organise calls with the interested parties throughout January.