Who we are
A certified B Corp, GRESB helps real asset investors, managers, and market participants connect sustainability performance with better capital and asset decisions.
Through our industry-governed standards, established benchmarks, validated data, and performance analytics, we enable market participants to manage risk and inform decision-making.
Drawing on the world’s most extensive real asset sustainability dataset, covering 15+ years of validated sustainability data from more than 150,000 real assets across more than 70 markets, 41 property types, and 10 infrastructure sectors, GRESB provides credible, comparable insights that put performance in context to help shorten the timeline between insight and action.
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
Who we serve
Our customers include the organizations that allocate and provide capital, own and manage assets, and enable market decisions through data and services.
GRESB offers a broad suite of capabilities to help real asset organizations across real estate, infrastructure, and data centers derive greater value from their data, including:
- Extensive sustainability intelligence for real assets delivered through our sector-specific Assessments, benchmarks, peer groups, and actionable insights and analyticsÂ
- Asset-level performance analytics providing granular insight on individual asset performance, enabling comparison against relevant peers, decarbonization pathways, and industry standardsÂ
- Simulated asset scoring analytics for in-depth portfolio insights, enabling market participants to identify potential improvement opportunitiesÂ
- Over 15 years of trusted, validated sustainability data providing actionable insights that support confident investment decision-making
These tools are designed to provide deeper portfolio and asset insights and support our customers in performance improvement across the sustainability topics that matter most.Â
How we serve real asset markets
Today, sustainability has moved beyond transparency and disclosure to become a key factor in underwriting, valuations, and financial decisions. GRESB is building on its established standards, benchmarks, validation, and more than 15 years of data to become a broader source of sustainability intelligence that supports capital allocation and asset improvement.
We focus on three areas where GRESB can create value for its customers and the market:
Connecting credible, comparable sustainability performance to capital allocation, investment, risk, and portfolio decisions, informing how capital is directed and accessed.
Improving the economics of owning, operating, and financing real assets through greater operating efficiency, reduced costs, stronger resilience, and lower cost of capital.
Creating a credible common lens for sustainability performance across real assets through industry-governed standards and established benchmarks, enabling consistent comparison across assets, portfolios, sectors, and markets.
We are also building toward a future where GRESB intelligence is easier to access, integrate, and use when decisions are made. This means developing more flexible and secure ways for investors, managers, and other market participants to connect to and use GRESB data throughout the year, while preserving the validation, comparability, and market context that make that intelligence valuable.
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 aims to equip market leaders with the tools they need to support responsible business practices and build a more sustainable world. Â
The core of our work is focused on transforming sustainability data into validated intelligence that’s more accessible and useful at the point of decision. Through our assessments, benchmarks, and rigorous validation, we:
- Enable investors to make more informed decisions for the benefit of society, the environment, and the economyÂ
- Empower companies, managers, and asset operators to improve their sustainability performance through insights and best practicesÂ
- Encourage the wider real assets industry to embrace and promote responsible transparency using a common language Â
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.
Because 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.