Dan Winters, Head of Americas, GRESB and Helee Lev, CRO, Goby outline actionable best practices and strategic opportunities for using your data to elevate your GRESB submissions and increase your portfolio’s ESG performance.
When you think about submitting to the GRESB framework, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? The environment? Social justice? Sustainability? Improving stakeholder confidence? There are many reasons that companies submit to GRESB, but every submission focuses around one linchpin item: DATA.
February 7, 2019
Related insights
-
Target setting for the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment and other net-zero goals
This year, GRESB announced they will align their reporting standards to the World Green Building Council’s (WorldGBC) Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment and increase recognition for real estate portfolios that sign the Commitment. Signatories of the Commitment pledge to operate 100% of their portfolio buildings at net zero carbon by 2030. Your real estate firm […]
Read more -
The state of safety, health, and wellbeing in 2020
Following coronavirus outbreaks in their supply chains, both Tyson Foods Inc. and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. added a Chief Medical Officer to their executive teams. These actions reflect the market’s increased emphasis on employee safety, health, and wellbeing in 2020. Expansions of safety, health, and wellbeing were not uncommon pre-COVID. In fact, many sectors recorded […]
Read more -
Now Is The Time To Start Moving the Needle On Your TCFD Efforts, Here’s Why
Companies are recognizing the importance of assessing risks and planning for contingency. While many investors have historically looked at how an organization assesses and acts upon risk from a reactive standpoint, companies and investors are beginning to take a proactive approach by assessing and planning for risk through disclosures and strategic approaches. Now, more than ever, improving the quality of firms’ climate disclosures is critical to managing climate risks and opportunities in financial markets.
Read more