Posted by: Jiri Skopek Energy and Sustainability Services, Canada One of the highlights of the recent World Sustainable Building Conference SB11 in Helsinki was the presentation of initial findings of the Sustainable Investment in Real Estate project to measure the impact of sustainability on the financial performance of European retail and office properties. S-I-R-E claims [...]
Archive | October, 2011
A long path to wishy-washy legislation?
Posted by: Anne-Sophie Blin EMEA Upstream Sustainability Services In a context of slow growth and increased competition, energy efficiency is probably the least of European governments’ priorities. However, I think that we are facing a structural change driven by market demand and increased transparency on assets’ energy efficiency performance. Take the French Government who set [...]
Sustainability reporting goes interactive
Posted by: Dan Probst Energy and Sustainability Services When I think of our Corporate Social Responsibility report, I’m usually thinking about the content—our initiatives in diversity and inclusion, community support, and of course the advances we’ve made in energy and sustainability. As someone who oversees the collection and analysis of some of the information in [...]
Sustainability’s many hats starts with reporting
Posted by: Parker White Energy and Sustainability Services, Asia Pacific Whether considering decisions in stagnant Western markets or dynamic markets across Asia Pacific, corporate real estate decision makers continue to increasingly prioritize sustainability. Though sustainability’s role in a real estate decision may vary greatly from Tokyo to Bangalore, an ever increasing number of managers are [...]
Greenbuild brings cautiously optimistic messages
Posted by: Jiri Skopek Energy and Sustainability Services, Canada This year Toronto hosted the Greenbuild 2011 conference. I noticed throughout the event some cautiously optimistic messages. Thomas Friedman argued that the kind of change required to save the planet can be only achieved with a strong price signal, which, in turn, can only be achieved [...]