What’s new in March
The 2025 GRESB Assessments are just around the corner! With the reporting period set to open on April 1, preparations at GRESB are in full swing. This year, Participants, Partners, and Investor Members will benefit from new and improved reporting resources and a brand-new training platform designed to streamline the submission process and navigate the assessment season with confidence.
As we count down to the reporting period, this edition of the newsletter brings you some important updates and news, including:
- The launch of Score Contribution for Real Estate Participants
- The 2025 GRESB Accredited Professional Program
- 2025 GRESB Assessments Q&A webinars and upcoming events
- The launch of the GRESB Solution Provider partner offering
Read more below. We look forward to supporting you throughout the 2025 reporting period.
New Score Contribution Dashboard
Earlier this month, GRESB introduced Score Contribution—a new membership tool that gives real estate managers greater insights into how individual assets contribute to a portfolio’s overall GRESB Score, in the aggregate and across key performance metrics.
The introduction of Score Contribution marks an important milestone for GRESB, which has devoted significant resources in recent years to enhance the experience of its members and provide them with the tools needed to maximize the impact of their sustainability efforts. With it, members can:
- Understand their GRESB Scores at the asset level
- Engage stakeholders more effectively with granular insights
- Take action where it matters most
Score Contribution is available to GRESB Real Estate Participants at no additional cost. Learn more about Score Contribution.
2025 GRESB Accredited Professional
The 2025 edition of the GRESB Accredited Professional (AP) program is now available.
This year, GRESB AP has been expanded with the launch of the GRESB AP – Infrastructure Team Leader exam. This new credential is designed to equip infrastructure professionals with the knowledge and skills to navigate GRESB reporting, enhance sustainability performance, and drive informed investment decisions.
2025 GRESB AP Real Estate Exam has also been updated with a focus on scoring methodologies, roadmap updates, and emerging sustainability topics, including embodied carbon, energy efficiency, and renewable energy.
Alongside the updated exams, GRESB has launched an improved online training platform. The platform hosts updated training materials, new videos, investor training, and exclusive content for GRESB APs, ensuring that professionals stay up to date with the evolving real asset landscape.
GRESB at MIPIM 2025
GRESB was thrilled to take part in the 2025 edition of MIPIM, held in Cannes, France, where global real estate leaders gathered for a week of insightful discussions, networking, and recognition of sustainability excellence.
This year, GRESB partnered with the Global ESG Awards, hosted by the EUBIN and sponsored by RICS, MIPIM and Deepki, celebrating organizations leading sustainability efforts across the real estate and construction industries.
Represented by Mathilde Petriat, Chief Customer Success Officer; Katy Aylward, Director of the Partners Program; and Younes Guemouri, Head of EMEA, GRESB recognized 2024 GRESB Sector Leaders present at MIPIM on stage for their outstanding leadership in sustainability and their commitment to driving innovation and resilience in the built environment.
Announcing GRESB Solution Providers
During the evening, Katy Aylward took the stage to announce the launch of a new partner offering: GRESB Solution Provider. This new partner offering is designed as a distinct partner category for companies delivering specialized products and services outside the GRESB Assessment process. The new category reflects GRESB’s ongoing commitment to helping managers identify high-impact tools and solutions that drive measurable sustainability outcomes.
Learn more about GRESB’s presence at MIPIM, the recognized 2024 Sector Leaders, and the new GRESB Solution Provider partner offering here.
GRESB Events
How Sustainability Is Helping Asset Managers Succeed in a High-Interest Era
Join GRESB and EVORA on April 8 for an insightful discussion on how sustainability is reshaping active asset management in today’s high-interest era. With traditional strategies like leverage and refinancing becoming less viable, asset managers need to adopt proactive approaches to create long-term value and mitigate risk.
This session is designed for asset managers, fund managers, investors, sustainability professionals, and real estate and infrastructure professionals looking to leverage sustainability to drive financial and operational success.
2025 GRESB Assessment Q&A Events
With the assessments only a few days away, the 2025 GRESB Assessments Q&A webinars for real estate and infrastructure provide a forum for the real assets industry to come together and discuss the assessments and ask questions.
If you haven’t done so already, please review the 2025 Standards & Reference Guides and reporting resources to help you prepare for the 2025 assessments and get familiar with changes introduced this year.
During these online sessions, our Member Relations Team will answer questions submitted during the registration process and asked via the chat during the event.
To accommodate GRESB Members across different time zones, we will be holding two sessions for each event.
Infrastructure:
Asia-Pacific
April 16, 2025 | 12:00 pm SGT | 2:00 pm AEST
EMEA and Americas
April 16, 2025 | 8:00 am PDT | 11:00 am EDT | 5:00 pm CEST
Real estate:
Asia-Pacific
April 17, 2025 | 12:00 pm SGT | 2:00 pm AEST
EMEA and Americas
April 17, 2025 | 8:00 am PDT | 11:00 am EDT | 5:00 pm CEST
Beyond Compliance: Leveraging Sustainability for Real Impact in Residential Real Estate
Residential real estate has become the largest sector in the GRESB Real Estate Benchmark, now representing over 36% of reported assets.
Join GRESB and Conservice on April 29 to delve into sustainability trends, regulatory developments, and, most importantly, how companies can leverage ESG strategies—not just for compliance or reporting—but as a tool to drive positive change in sustainability and social impact within the residential sector.
Foundation Update
Foundation Roundtables
The Foundation hosted a roundtable in Mexico City and Sydney this month to gather stakeholder discussions focused on priority topics highlighted in the Foundation Roadmap. In Mexico, we were joined by Jose Pablo Rinkenbach from AINDA, Diego Berho from Vesta, Eric Holschneider from Fibra Prologis, and Fernando Álvarez Toca from FUNO. The speakers highlighted the evolution of sustainability regulations in the region and shared how their sustainability strategies are helping to drive value for their funds and investors. In Sydney, GRESB hosted an Investor Masterclass as well as two Foundation Roundtables, one for infrastructure and one for real estate. In-person attendance reached around 80 with close to 20 dialing in, a terrific result.
The Investor Masterclass attendees covered a wide range of topics, but it was clear that GRESB is still a useful tool to assess the progress of a manager’s sustainability path, but that an improvement to the standard was needed to assess best performance practices. This sentiment was also commonly shared in the real estate roundtable, with many welcoming the proposed changes GRESB will adopt, starting in 2025, around energy efficiency scoring as well as assessing real estate sectors differently (i.e., residential, data centers, and industrial/logistics).
The infrastructure roundtable welcomed the upcoming changes to the assessments and highlighted that it is critical for GRESB and the Foundation to continue to increase participation numbers across all Infrastructure Assessments, which, in turn, will increase the relevance of the Benchmark.
Foundation Members In-Person Meeting
Members of the GRESB Foundation, including the Board, the Real Estate and Infrastructure Standards Committees, and the Data Center Working Group will gather in London for an in-person meeting this month. There will be several strategy sessions, as well as presentations by the Foundation’s Change Management and Data Center Working Groups, and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC).
Although the Foundation hosts most of its meetings virtually, there is nothing that compares to face-to-face interactions and knowledge-sharing. Representatives from the GRESB Secretariat plan to attend several industry events throughout 2025, including the ULI Spring Meeting (Denver), INREV (Berlin), SuperReturn Climate & Energy Transition (Berlin), and Climate Week (London and NYC). Please reach out to [email protected] if you would like to connect with us!
GRESB Insights
The Pulse by GRESB
The Pulse by GRESB is an informative content series featuring the GRESB team, partners, GRESB Foundation members, and other experts, published on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Listen to the latest episodes below:
The case for clean energy: Incentives & opportunities for on-site renewables
Host Reid Morgan and guest speaker Peter Light, CEO and Co-Founder of Lumen Energy, explore the incentives and challenges of adopting on-site renewables in commercial real estate, discussing key market trends, AI and policy impacts, and innovative solutions.
Transforming sustainability reporting: A look at the ESPM to GRESB toolkit
Host Chris Pyke, GRESB’s Chief Innovation Officer, and guest speaker Rimas Gulbinas, CEO at Abisko, discuss the new ESPM to GRESB toolkit, exploring how it simplifies data integration, addresses key sustainability reporting challenges, and enhances efficiency, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness.
Contribute to GRESB Insights
Check out the 2025 GRESB Editorial Calendar for fixed monthly topics and submission guidelines. The topic for April is “Data quality, coverage & comparability.”
Upcoming Industry Events
8th Sustainable Investor Summit | May 13 – May 14 | Frankfurt
Discover the latest sustainability investment trends and strategies at SIS 8. Institutional investors, asset managers, companies, and experts will meet in Frankfurt on May 13 to discuss the latest developments in sustainable finance. Alexander Roznowski, Business Development Manager at GRESB, will be speaking at the event.
CFA Chicago Live 2025 | May 5 – May 7 | Chicago, USA
Engage with industry leaders and a global network of peers to explore the themes shaping the future of investment. Paul Vozzella, Sales Director – Eastern Region, will be attending the event, representing both GRESB and Asset Impact.
Sustainable Profits: The Green Edge in Real Estate
April 10 | Auckland, New Zealand
Join GRESB’s Head of Asia Pacific Steven Pringle and Manager Member Relations Sarah Blankfield for a panel discussion with JLL and NZGBC on how sustainability is impacting real estate in New Zealand.
Impact Investor Global Summit 2025
May 20 | London, UK
Join 700+ leaders in impact and transition investing, including 250+ active allocators, to dive into how private capital is fueling a sustainable and equitable future—and uncover the investable opportunities within this shift.
Careers
GRESB is growing and looking for new people! Please feel free to share with your network. Our most recently added open positions:
- Consolidation and Finance Manager | Amsterdam
- QA Engineer (2-3 years experience) | Amsterdam
- GRESB ESG Summer Internship 2025 | Amsterdam
- M&A and Special Projects Internship | Paris
- Working Student – Finance and Business Support | Amsterdam
What are we reading
Building a greener tomorrow: Green technology has transitioned from a niche innovation to a fundamental pillar of the real estate industry | Institutional Real Estate Inc.
Oxford Properties’ green new deal | Real Estate Capital Europe
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