Scaling Sustainability, Globally and Seamlessly

A new energy-use ordinance drops in New York; Paris tightens waste levies; UK tweaks building-performance caps. When your portfolio spans multiple jurisdictions, small policy shifts feel like surprise pop-quizzes – and every quiz is graded by investors, auditors, and regulators alike. The hard truth: regional nuance and global consistency are not opposites; they’re twin requirements. Delivering both without ballooning overhead calls for a rethink in process, not just more hands on deck. 

When your portfolio spans multiple regions, your sustainability approach must too.  

Legislation Moves Faster Than Your Headcount 

Every quarter a fresh acronym lands – CSRD, SFDR, SEC – each demanding a tweak to targets, data, or narrative. The load isn’t just volume; it’s velocity. Regulations update mid-cycle, clarification documents arrive late, and local authorities might only give weeks between final text and enforcement. By the time an internal policy is drafted, the reference document has already changed. 

The strain shows up in multiple ways. Strategy stalls because leaders fear setting targets that could be outdated by the next board meeting. Legal and sustainability teams scramble for external advice in every region, piling cost on cost without gaining consistency. Investor decks cite one threshold, asset managers quote another, and auditors flag both, eroding trust right when transparency matters most. 

Put simply, keeping pace with the legislative carousel can exhaust even well-staffed teams. And without the right expertise, keeping up can be expensive. 

The Cost Nobody Budgets For 

For many real-asset investors, sustainability numbers still travel by spreadsheet and email. London logs kilowatt-hours in one file, New York tracks tonnes CO₂ in another. Each tweak looks harmless – until reporting week. An analyst ends up translating multiple dialects of carbon at midnight, hoping the totals line up. 

The hidden costs mount fast: 

 Lost analyst time: Smart people spend evenings chasing missing units instead of analyzing the data for savings. 

Extra assurance effort: External advisers want to back-check every odd figure before they can give meaningful advice. 

Longer audit samples: Patchy evidence feels risky, so auditors test more assets and ask more follow-ups. 

Across multiple regions, those hours can quietly exceed the original sustainability budget – money that could fund decarbonization projects rather than spreadsheet therapy. 

A lot of firms sell sustainability services. Many promise simplified reporting. But what happens when new legislations drop out of nowhere? When the data isn’t clean? When deadlines creep closer?   

We’ve seen first-hand what happens when sustainability is handed off to a software provider without strategic oversight or local knowledge. The reality is that sustainability is still a rapidly evolving field – especially for a multi-regional portfolio.  

EVORA – Your Multi-Region Advantage 

EVORA delivers globally consistent outcomes with region-specific expertise, ensuring your data strategy, reporting, and compliance align with both investor demands and local regulation. We bring together advisory, strategic consulting, technical expertise, and data collection capabilities in one seamless, managed approach.  

Our clients don’t just get recommendations – they get a partner who ensures everything works together smoothly from start to finish. We take on the project management burden, coordinate the right experts, and work towards practical, tangible results across regions. When local legislations change, you hear it from the people who follow those rules daily – not weeks later in a generic slide deck.  

The result is a strategy that speaks one language across the portfolio while delivering region-specific compliance, investor-ready messaging, and audit-ready evidence – all powered by experts who know both the global narrative and the local dialect. 

Need scalable global solutions that account for regional compliance without hiring three new teams? Let’s talk. 

Track Record that Travels 

Today, 250 real asset investors and fund managers trust EVORA with $880 billion in AUM. Their data flows into SIERA, which stores +17 billion data points drawn from thousands of sources across Europe and North America.

That same data engine, together with our expert consultancy team, drove 177 GRESB submissions in 2024, covering $233 billion AUM – about 20 % of all European entries and 10 % worldwide. Results followed: 25 % earned five stars, 52 % landed four or five, and 20 funds were named Global or Regional Sector Leaders.

Proof that one platform backed by the right people scales – and scores – anywhere you invest.