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GRESB’s ESG coverage of the real assets industry keeps growing

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The 2019 Reporting period ended this month and we’re delighted to announce that we have hit another set of important milestones in our ESG coverage and reach. We’ll soon release full details to illustrate how comprehensive and representative of the industry our ESG benchmarks are, but we wanted to provide a few highlights in advance:

More than 100

More than 100 institutional investors now use our data and tools, including many of the worlds largest pensions funds, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds.

More than 1,000

More than 1,000 property companies, REITs, funds and developers participated in the 2019 Real Estate Assessment.  

More than 100,000

The 2019 Real Estate Assessment now covers more than 100,000 assets (of which more than 65,000 reported at the asset level).  

More than 500

More than 500 infrastructure funds and assets participated in the 2019 Infrastructure Assessment, a striking 41% increase on the previous year.

More than 300

More than 300 entities completed the 2019 Resilience Module, doubling the response rate from the previous year.

Congratulations to everyone who participated. Your participation signals an important commitment to advancing ESG integration and lies at the heart of our communal effort to create a more sustainable real asset industry.

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