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Nov 22, 2024 | 
sustain-re.com | Mark Cooper
I regret to announce that Sustain will be on hiatus until the new year, when a decision will be made whether to relaunch the publication or to close it permanently. In the meantime, feel free to read our past content.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
sustain-re.com | Mark Cooper
A collection of real estate organisations have launched a comprehensive carbon pricing strategy for real estate.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
sustain-re.com | Mark Cooper
Neovantage Innovation Parks has secured its first green loan. The largest private life sciences real estate operator in South Asia, Neovantage is a joint venture between Ivanhoé Cambridge, the real estate arm of Canadian investor CDPQ, and Singaporean investor Lighthouse Canton. The $36 million green loan is also HSBC’s first green loan facility in the life sciences real estate sector in India.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
sustain-re.com | Mark Cooper
Genova Property has recruited Anna Barosen as head of sustainability, a newly created position at the Swedish real estate company. She joins from Skandia Fastigheter, where she was head of development and sustainability strategist. She has also worked at White Arkitekter as an environmental specialist and project manager in sustainability. "Genova has gradually strengthened its sustainability work in all parts of the business, from property management to project development and district projects.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
sustain-re.com | Mark Cooper
The leading sustainable building organisations in the US have released a joint agenda for the next administration. In advance of the US presidential election in November, the US Green Building Council (USGBC), New Buildings Institute (NBI), Institute for Market Transformation (IMT), and Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) collaborated to develop recommendations aimed at helping commercial buildings recover from the current downturn and better prepare for the future.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
sustain-re.com | Mark Cooper
Measurabl has appointed a new president and a data partnership with FTSE Russell. The real estate ESG platform has promoted Maureen Waters to the newly created role of president from her previous role as chief growth officer and added others to the leadership team. “Maureen, and each new leader at Measurabl, has demonstrated superior customer service, innovative spirit, and teamwork, particularly over this last year of growth” said Matt Ellis, Measurabl co-founder and CEO.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
sustain-re.com | Mark Cooper
Sustainability-led projects feature heavily in the list of finalists in the 2024 ULI Europe Awards for Excellence. The awards reward excellence across the entire development process, considering various factors such as: planning, construction, economics, management, sustainability and resiliency, community impact, and architecture and design.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
sustain-re.com | Mark Cooper
The British Property Federation has appointed Sophie Goddard as the new chair of the BPF Sustainability Committee, effective this Autumn. Goddard, who is director of sustainability at Canary Wharf Group, replaces Katherine Sherwin, sustainable investing manager at Blackrock Real Assets. Mat Lown, chief knowledge and sustainability officer at consultancy TFT, is vice chair.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
sustain-re.com | Mark Cooper
Local government pension schemes see affordable housing as the most important investment for social impact, a new survey found. Octopus Investments, in partnership with the research division of mallowstreet, a community for the institutional investment industry, has published a report on the role of social infrastructure in local government pension schemes portfolios. The research was carried out among 27 UK schemes with a total of more than £230bn in assets under management.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
sustain-re.com | Mark Cooper
Recent outperformance by less efficient UK industrial and office assets may reflect investors’ “brown to green” strategies, CBRE claims. The real estate advisor recently published the H1 2024 results for its UK Sustainability Index, which now covers £24.4 billion of UK real estate, of which 20% is classed as ‘efficient’ ie with an energy performance certificate (EPC) of A or B and the rest ‘inefficient’.
