Posts Tagged ‘GRESB’
Getting ready for GRESB season – Reporting tips and tricks
GRESB is imminently approaching! Which for a lot of us in the ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) industry, it means getting ready to report all the relevant activities that have been undertaken by funds over the course of the past year. In order to smoothen your reporting process and evidence collection, I have looked to…
Read MoreGRESB 2020: Three Key Changes
Each year, GRESB works with its members and key industry stakeholders to update the assessment and address the material issues within Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance of real estate investments. Below we outline three of the key changes following the release of the 2020 GRESB Real Estate Reference Guide ahead of the GRESB assessment…
Read MoreEVORA 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…
Read MoreEVORA Insights: The future of GRESB and the real estate industry
Interview with Roxana Isaiu, Director Real Estate, GRESB With GRESB submissions now over for another year, many of us in the industry can breathe a (small) sigh of relief. EVORA Director and co-founder, Ed Gabbitas, took some time out to speak with Roxana Isaiu, Director Real Estate, GRESB to chat about the future of GRESB…
Read MoreGRESB 2019: Are you ready for the portal to open?
With just two weeks until the GRESB portal opens for 2019, the EVORA consultancy team is gearing up for our eighth year supporting clients through their GRESB Real Estate Survey submissions. We are experts in GRESB and that is why at least 80 funds have put their faith in us to manage their submission. GRESB…
Read MoreThe business case for ESG. Shouldn’t it just be business as usual?
GRESB 2019 pre-release: a review of the tweaks and refinements
GRESB has broadly taken a “don’t fix what ain’t broke” approach to the 2019 survey, with the pre-release revealing that only minor changes to the reporting framework have been made from last year. This is perhaps a sign that, after ten years of development, GRESB are settling on a long-term formula for the majority of…
Read MoreGRESB 2019: What are your limiting factors?
It feels like not too long ago, the GRESB reporting season reached its climax and our consultants breathed a sigh of relief, dubbing last year as one of our busiest GRESB periods yet. Ironically, it’s set to get even busier for us this year with our team expected to support close to 90 submissions, quite…
Read MoreHealth and Wellbeing: Emerging or Mainstream?
For many professionals working in the built environment, Health and Wellbeing still feel like relatively new buzzwords. In some ways this is surprising given that the subject area has been around for many years; for example, the term “sick building syndrome” was coined by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1986. In reality though, the…
Read MoreGRESB 2018: The Results
At EVORA, we support a broad range of clients to complete GRESB submissions – from new starters and organisations just starting out on development of their ESG strategies through to industry leaders. This year, we assisted around 70 submissions. It has been (and continues to be) challenging work. However, we are delighted with the results. We…
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