What is SFDR, the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation?
The EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is a new transparency requirement for financial market participants related to key environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. The purpose is to increase market transparency and direct capital towards more sustainable businesses.
For many asset managers, a key consideration for SFDR is equipping investors with relevant and consistent product- and entity-level ESG data to support their mandatory reporting.
Report on SFDR with confidence using real data from GRESB
With GRESB, real estate and infrastructure managers can meet the most arduous part of SFDR – reporting on product-level Principal Adverse Impacts (PAIs) – while gaining valuable business insights.
- Better data. Unlike other providers, GRESB works with real ESG data, submitted and validated from assets themselves. This means more accurate data to get ahead of future requirements.
- Focused on the hard part. We tackle SFDR’s central data challenge, giving you more flexibility to finish reporting without racking up unnecessary consulting fees.
- More accurate estimations. Where real estate entities may have initial gaps in data, we can make better estimations using our global industry assessments. More accurate data now means fewer headaches in the future.
- End-to-end support. As an industry-led platform, GRESB provides robust support services at every step of the process. If you need help collecting data, we can recommend one of our partners.
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GRESB Estimation Model
For real estate financial market participants who are missing energy consumption data for the tenant’s portion of a building in their portfolio, the GRESB Estimation Model (GEM) can drill down and compare the building’s known data points – like floor size, location and specific property subtype – against the GRESB database. This provides a highly representative estimation for missing data.
Future-proof reporting with high-quality data
While ESG data can be scraped from a number of public sources, its accuracy and reliability may not be sufficient for SFDR reporting. This concern will only grow if, as expected, CSRD requires data validation in the near future.
Starting your disclosures with the best available data now will make year-over-year comparisons easy and more useful for asset managers when they become required.
With the report, you can:
- Grant investors access to your SFDR data and report through the GRESB Portal
- Prepare your Principal Adverse Impact Disclosure at the entity level
- Inform and guide your periodic and pre-contractual disclosures at the product level
- Determine the EU Taxonomy eligibility and alignment of a financial product
- Identify any data or coverage gaps you may have
- Engage with stakeholders on how you are addressing SFDR
Ready to get started?
The SFDR Reporting Solution is now available for real estate.
Related insights and resources
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Solve the hardest part of SFDR reporting with real data from a trusted source. Receive a more accurate PAI Statement and the flexibility to get ahead of future regulatory requirements.
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You can find reference guides for both the SFDR Real Estate and SFDR Infrastructure Assessments at GRESB Documents.
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GRESB and CMS have compiled resources that cover everything from SFDR & Alternative Investment Funds to discussing the impact of SFDR on fund distribution across Europe. You can find all relevant resources below:
- Briefing | ESG regulation 2021 and beyond – This briefing looks at ESG regulation for investment banks with a brief overview of SFDR.
- Update Series | Sustainable Finance April update series – Articles outlining EU Taxonomy and disclosure regulations, UK sustainable finance initiatives post Brexit and implications of sustainable finance for the loan market.
- Webinar | SFDR and market uncertainty: The post-10 March implications for fund distribution across Europe – Exploring the impact of SFDR on fund distribution across Europe, considering market discrepancies and specific local requirements and regulations in France, Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland, and the UK.
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This webinar focuses on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation in order to update members on the latest developments, review member experiences in light of the March 10th deadline for level 1 disclosure and looks ahead to next steps.
GIIA Slide deck: GIIA ESG Roundtable Discussion Regarding SFDR (April 2021)