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Rising importance of sustainability in the commercial real estate industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... rise in importance of ESG disclosures is due to a number of reasons. First, the world's built environment, of which real estate is a notable component, is the largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, consuming a third of our water and generating ...

Mercer hires three consultants to responsible investment team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... consultant in KPMG's human rights and social impact team, KPMG Banarra. At KPMG, Stamp worked with clients across FMCG, real estate, natural resources, financial services and government in managing human rights, social and environmental impacts, risks ...

CEFC investing up to $100m in Lendlease-managed property fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... managed by Lendlease and invests in commercial properties in Australia. It has been rated the world's most sustainable real estate fund in 2014, 2015 and 2017 by the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB). The CEFC investment is targeting ...

Norton Rose Fulbright partners to form new energy sector advisory business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... changing their focus," said Simon Currie. "New players are entering the sector as it converges with other sectors such as real estate, transport, infrastructure and agriculture. With the help of Norton Rose Fulbright's high quality global and Australian ...

Sustainalytics outlines ten key global ESG risks for 2018

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... Sustainaltyics analysed the "intensifying physical impacts of climate change pose major questions for the world's $217 trillion real estate industry," and found that most firms are poorly prepared. "We highlight in the repot that compared to others ...

High to severe ESG incidents affect market capitalisation: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... amount of the next most exposed industry (food products). The riskiest industry is automobiles and the least risky is real estate, the report found. The U.S. has the highest country incident risk, accounting for 40 percent of all incidents. The relative ...

CEFC invests $200m into QIC Shopping Centre Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will invest $200 million into QIC's Global Real Estate flagship Shopping Centre Fund (QSCF) with the goal of improving energy performance across the QSCF shopping centre portfolio. Ian Learmonth, CEO, Clean ...

IGCC annual conference discusses managing climate change risk, solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... to "more homogenous and systematic disclosures." Cheang also highlighted the GRESB ratings for infrastructure and real estate as an important benchmark. UniSuper supports GRESB, and said that UniSuper has been "pleasantly surprised" by the progress made ...

Considering the first 20 years of the Global Reporting Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... an upswing in demand for GRI-based reporting of sustainability metrics from new sectors, such as construction and real estate. In 2015, the GRI's Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) announced that the voluntary G4 guidelines would transition ...

Strong uptick in participation in second GRESB Infrastructure Assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... there is still room for improvement, especially when compared with the higher levels of public disclosures made by the real estate sector." GRESB noted that only 58% of participants undertake any form of impact assessment, which they said is "low considering ...