Posts Tagged ‘Climate change’
No one wants to jump first. Can New York Climate Week provide the push?
Things are heating up in the Big Apple this week and it’s not just from climate change. British royals, world leaders and real estate magnates are all getting hot for New York Climate Week This year’s New York Climate Week (September 17-24) will be the hottest yet with the loudest plaudits going to those…
Read MoreEVORA Global Joins the Advisory Board of All-Party Parliamentary Group on ESG to Drive Policy Development
EVORA Global, a premier provider of sustainable solutions for the real asset industry, is thrilled to announce its appointment to the Advisory Board of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). This strategic collaboration aims to foster dialogue and drive positive change on crucial sustainability issues within the built environment. As…
Read MoreA Summary Guide to The CRREM and SBTi Update
The Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor (CRREM) & Science Based Target initiatives (SBTi) have recently published updates to the decarbonisation pathways. The recently released version is 1.5⁰C aligned and affects the tool’s underlying data in three important areas: carbon intensity, energy intensity, and SBTi-alignment. The new version addresses updated global emission budgets as well as…
Read MoreWill TCFD prepare organisations for the climate crisis?
Yanna Badet, Meghan Johnson, Phil Fieldhouse, Karolina Krzystek-De Ranter and Lisa Tassis Climate Change is hard to ignore this summer: Europe is battling heatwaves and wildfires, over 60% is in drought conditions while other parts of the world are experiencing several 1000-year floods within months. We are in a climate crisis, and we are feeling…
Read MoreHow relevant will the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures be to the Real Estate sector?
There is a growing understanding that biodiversity loss and climate change are interlinked crises. Climate change degrades many ecosystems and makes the species within them more vulnerable; a decline in biodiversity reduces the ability of ecosystems to act as a carbon sink and to provide resilience for human populations through ecosystem services. The second part…
Read MoreWhat is EVORA Global doing as a business to tackle climate change?
COP26: A Summary
What is a COP? A Conference of the Parties (COP) is an annual meeting of the signatories to a UN convention – an agreement to co-operate to tackle a global challenge. In the case of climate change, there are almost 200 states who have signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since its…
Read MoreCities, Regions, and the Built Environment at COP26
Collaboration between real assets owners and the cities in which they operate is key to advancing on climate action As the world gears up for COP26, attention is turning to the built environment’s responsibility to reduce GHG emissions and urgent need to adapt to the physical impacts of climate change such as flooding and heat…
Read MoreWhat did we learn from our first EVORA Insight’s lunch on the topic of how ESG is being integrated into investment decision-making?
The gap in expectations between the leaders and the majority of investment managers is huge. Even the leaders don’t think they are doing anywhere near enough. To be honest, it’s a little disheartening. Organisational change and capacity building is being hampered by structural changes, which cannot be solved by each firm on their own. For…
Read MoreIt’s getting hot in here! Heat risk to buildings
The recent heatwave in Canada has brought into focus the real and present dangers of extreme weather conditions. Record temperatures in British Columbia, reaching as high as 49.6°C, resulted in hundreds of excess deaths and heat-related hospital visits. As early analysis shows the heatwave would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without human-caused climate change, we know…
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