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February 2021
GRESB Newsletter | Improve your ESG Reporting to the GRESB Assessments
We’re pleased to be starting a new year at GRESB energized and ready to go. With the formation of the GRESB Foundation now well underway, new appointments to our Management Board and the expertise and dedication of our growing network of Members and Partners, we’re ready to work with industry to accelerate progress on the transition to sustainable real assets at the scale and speed that is now required.
GRESB selects SRI Quality System Registrar as Validation Assessment Body
Amsterdam, February 22, 2021 – GRESB is excited to announce that it has chosen SRI Quality System Registrar (SRI) as its independent, 3rd-party assessment and validation services provider. As a Certified B Corp, SRI meets the highest standards of overall social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. GRESB assesses and benchmarks the Environmental, Social, and […]
GRESB and BREEAM partner to recognise responsible real estate investments in Asia
GRESB and BREEAM are partnering to recognise responsible real estate investments and individual leadership in Asia, as part of the annual BRE China Awards. On the afternoon of Mar 3, 2021, the BRE China Awards and BREEAM 30th Anniversary will take place at The Langham Shanghai, announcing the winners and showcasing the most innovatively sustainable […]
GLIO and GRESB team up to launch the world’s first specialist ESG-filtered listed infrastructure index
Amsterdam, January 27, 2021: The Global Listed Infrastructure Organisation (GLIO), the representative body for the listed infrastructure asset class, GRESB, the Environment, Social and Governance assessment and benchmark specialist, and Global Property Research (GPR) today announce the launch of the GLIO/GRESB ESG Index. The index boosts the specialist offering of the parent GLIO Index, […]
GRESB Newsletter | A twin-track approach to Assessment development in collaboration with the industry
We’re pleased to be starting a new year at GRESB energized and ready to go. With the formation of the GRESB Foundation now well underway, new appointments to our Management Board and the expertise and dedication of our growing network of Members and Partners, we’re ready to work with industry to accelerate progress on the transition to sustainable real assets at the scale and speed that is now required.
GRESB Newsletter | 2020: With crisis comes opportunity
Amid all the disruption and uncertainty of the year, we witnessed a great upswing in ESG transparency and collaboration from across the real asset industry. ESG issues are nothing new of course, but the crisis has intensified them and underlined how critical it is to build resilience for systemic problems like the climate crisis, social inequality, and biodiversity loss.
Update on governance and engagement Following last month’s announcement about the changes to GRESB’s governance, we are in the final stages of setting up the independent GRESB Foundation to own and govern the GRESB Standards on which the Assessments are based. All GRESB Members and Partners will be part of the Foundation. The Foundation Board […]
Quantifying sustainability: PERE Sustainable Investing Report
This year’s Sustainable Investing Report from PERE looks at how the sector is measuring up to ESG and dealing with climate change. We were pleased to provide GRESB 2020 results highlights for the report and commentary for a piece on “Quantifying sustainability” – where we were joined by experts from Kempen and Altera Vastgoed. Investors […]
