The case for ESG in Real Estate Debt

Over the preceding decades, ESG has morphed from a niche add-on to a core part of any sensible investing strategy. Indeed, Standard Chartered estimates that $1 in every $4 is now invested in ESG. As ESG increasingly factors into investment decisions across the market, the case for real estate debt to consider ESG risk grows.…

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Sonny Masero joins Board as Chief Strategy Officer

EVORA Global is delighted to announce that Sonny Masero has joined the company’s Board as Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). Sonny joins EVORA at an exciting and challenging time in the company’s history. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic the EVORA Board is looking ahead; knowing that the sustainability of real assets remains a high…

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No longer optional: Shifting to a more sustainable investment model

Recent months have seen a flurry of articles demonstrating that many sustainable (ESG) investments have outperformed their unsustainable non-ESG rivals during the intense market-downturn caused by COVID-19. BlackRock – one of the world’s largest investment managers – and MCSI – a leading investment research firm – are amongst those who have published robust analyses illustrating…

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Getting to (Net) Zero

In June of 2019, the UK became the first major economy in the world to pass laws requiring net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. ‘Zero carbon’ is an ambitious challenge and one that we at EVORA Global is well-poised at untangling.   So what do we mean by ‘zero carbon’? Though there are two important…

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Climate Resilience: Why we should care

Climate Resilience has been the buzzword in the market for some time, but what does it mean and why should you care? Climate Resilience is ‘the capacity of companies and funds to survive and thrive in the face of social and environmental shocks and stressors’ [GRESB]. By shocks, we mean short term acute events like…

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EVORA delivers £373k savings in first year of M&T module

Our SIERA Monitoring & Targeting (M&T) module had its first birthday earlier this year, so we decided to take the time to reflect back on all it has achieved in its first year. Since the module’s release in February 2018, EVORA has begun driving energy efficiency at 51 assets across eleven clients via SIERA Energy…

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Biodiversity: enhancing the built environment

EVORA support many of our real estate clients to develop sustainability strategies and management systems.  The overriding objective of approaches developed is to establish plans that help our clients understand their impacts, manage risks and, perhaps most importantly, drive performance improvement.  Often, and unsurprisingly we focus on energy, carbon, water and waste. However, there are…

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EVORA Insights: GRESB and Data Quality

Interview with Ragnar Martens, Director IT and Analytics With GRESB submissions now over for another year, many of us in the industry can breathe a (small) sigh of relief. EVORA Associate Director, Nick Hogg, took some time to talk with Ragnar Martens, Director IT and Analytics at GRESB about GRESB and data quality. With ESG…

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EVORA Supports Moorfield to Produce its Latest CSR Report

EVORA has supported Moorfield on development and delivery of its sustainability programme for a number of years now. This is the third year we have assisted in the production of their Corporate Social Responsibility report. Moorfield has done well over the past 12 months achieving like-for-like energy reductions of 13%, carbon reductions of 38% and…

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