In just a few years, ESG investing, also known as sustainable or responsible investing, has moved from a slightly idealistic niche to front-page, a mainstream dimension for investors, one that strongly influences the performance and resilience of their investment over time.
This is particularly the case in infrastructure, in view of its wide-reaching and long-term consequences for the community. In many cases, private investors, through marketplace and industry-led initiatives, have pioneered evolutions and set the path by preceding regulatory requirements from public authorities. Many corporates, investors, and operators have embarked on communicating their values and sharing their approaches on the subject to both shareholders and stakeholders. The Long-Term Infrastructure Investors Association (LTIIA) has devoted a new, enriched edition of its ESG Handbook for Institutional Investors to take into account the latest developments in this sphere.
What sets aside this report from other compendiums is the rich variety of examples and illustrations drawn from LTIIA’s members’ collective experience, reflecting upon their specific challenges, management practices, and the proprietary methodologies they developed to manage and address them. It shows the appetite and inventiveness at play when it comes to developing bottom-up solutions. It also makes a point towards the need to further consolidate and streamline tools and standards so as to be able to refer to commonly accepted market practices.
The timing could not be more appropriate as the current Covid-19 crisis reveals the weaknesses and lack of resilience of many economic models. View the full handbook below.
Green Schools: Ensuring Student Health and Well-being
With so much time being spent inside buildings, it is no surprise that the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has an effect on the building occupants’ health and well-being.
The newly released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), indicates that climate action is becoming increasingly urgent to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change. Businesses play an important role in addressing climate change by reducing what are often significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their operations and value chain.Â
Health & Well-being in offices: are you a Squirrel or a Beaver?
Three among many examples illustrate this underlying trend: real estate projects now include plenty of services to tenants, certifications focused on health and well-being gain in popularity, and research projects try to quantify the impact of wellbeing on productivity.
