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The AEAM Global Sustainable (listed) Real Estate Fund has taken the step to reclassify from Article 8 to Article 9 under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). We believe the listed sector offers an attractive avenue to invest in sustainable real estate worldwide. The listed sector tends to outperform on various sustainability metrics versus the broader real estate sector. https://lnkd.in/eAnb7p5v

#Green financing has become an option for many organisations and industries to advance their #sustainability efforts. But how viable is this form of financing to drive environmental sustainability in #manufacturing? Learn more: https://bit.ly/3xBs6eC

We have signed up to the Sustainability for Housing's Sustainability Reporting Standard (SRS).   We’ve joined over 130 housing associations and funders as an Adopter of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standard for social housing.   The SRS is a voluntary reporting framework, covering 48 criteria across ESG considerations such as affordability, safety standards and zero carbon targets.   Measuring and continually improving our sustainability performance through the SRS will support us in making our homes warmer, more efficient and cheaper to run ensuring a better future for our residents.   Read more here: bit.ly/4ajPsnZ

📣 ESG Webinar klaxon ⏰ 1215-1315 GMT 5 February 2024 🧰 Green lease toolkit On 29 January 2024, the Better Buildings Partnership (BBP) will launch its updated Green Lease Toolkit. The environmental performance of buildings is fast becoming a differentiator in determining value for Real Estate investors, and the BBP Toolkit is expected to be a new market benchmark for green leases. Join our real estate and sustainability experts alongside industry guests to discuss the updated BBP provisions, the impact on sustainable property ownership (including compliance with minimum standards) and landlord-tenant partnerships. We will aim to answer the question - is there a way to make green lease provisions work for both investors and occupiers? Register online https://lnkd.in/ectKZR3j Rita Vartoukian Felicity Lindsay Ryan Davies Tom Baines Nick Bridgman Kay Desai Jane Reyersbach Angela Perry Senay Nihat Rachel Kerr #GreenLease #GreenLeaseToolkit #GowlingWLGEvent

Today, WorldGBC - alongside 40 other built environment stakeholder groups and businesses representing over 5,000 member organisations, express our strong support for the European Commission’s development of an EU Whole Life Carbon Roadmap for the building sector. Specifically, we are recommending that this Roadmap: 🌍 Offers a clear decarbonisation pathway to 2050, with intermediary targets at regular intervals for the sector 🌍 Outlines holistic policy interventions across areas such as building regulations, waste and circularity, procurement and finance 🌍 Reflects the existing widespread support for ambition on tackling Whole Life Carbon from industry and Member States. Read our full open letter here: https://bit.ly/46hqBOC #WholeLifeCarbon

Excited to be part of this collaborative global effort and even more excited to share the results. Sustainable finance tools are increasingly critical in driving the transition to a low-carbon economy. At the same time, there's a need to enhance the financing sector’s understanding of the role buildings and green building certifications can play in decarbonization as well as a need to increase knowledge within the real estate sector of how to fully leverage these financing instruments. "Financing Transformation" aims to address those gaps by demonstrating how certification systems like LEED can provide credibility and standardization in evaluating and certifying green building projects. https://lnkd.in/g7TKqZVw This guide represents a first of its kind collaborative effort between major players including U.S. Green Building Council, BRE, Singapore Green Building Council, Alliance HQE - GBC, Green Building Council of Australia. More to come soon... #sustainablefinance #LEEDv5 #buildingdecarbonization

Go behind the numbers with @MetLife-Investment-Management’s Syed Ahmed who is sharing how projects like the renovation of six schools in Maryland’s Prince George’s County will impact thousands of students while creating construction jobs in the process, 30% of which will be allocated to minority-owned businesses. Learn more about our responsible investments in our 2022 Sustainability Report: http://spr.ly/6041R0CtS #MetLifeBehindtheNumbers

Go behind the numbers with @MetLife-Investment-Management’s Syed Ahmed who is sharing how projects like the renovation of six schools in Maryland’s Prince George’s County will impact thousands of students while creating construction jobs in the process, 30% of which will be allocated to minority-owned businesses. Learn more about our responsible investments in our 2022 Sustainability Report: http://spr.ly/6047RKQMR #MetLifeBehindtheNumbers

Go behind the numbers with @MetLife-Investment-Management’s Syed Ahmed who is sharing how projects like the renovation of six schools in Maryland’s Prince George’s County will impact thousands of students while creating construction jobs in the process, 30% of which will be allocated to minority-owned businesses. Learn more about our responsible investments in our 2022 Sustainability Report: http://spr.ly/6042XcANM #MetLifeBehindtheNumbers

We are pleased to share our annual sustainability overview, outlining our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) expertise and key achievements for the FY23 period. Notably, we are pleased to highlight our significant progress towards emissions reductions and community engagement efforts. By June 2023, all of our Australian offices had entered into renewable energy (Greenpower) procurement arrangements with utility providers and landlords. This decreased our scope 1 and 2 emissions footprint by 58% compared to our FY22 benchmark. We also reshaped our firm-wide community engagement program, launching a structured corporate philanthropy program, continuing partnerships with key organisations and encouraging opportunities for greater staff engagement. Find out more via the link below. #ESG #sustainability #corporatesustainability