Sustainable Investing

Actis to scale up Asia real estate business post acquisition

With General Atlantic as its new owner, the firm will add Japan as a new investment market for real estate.

Look Ahead 2024: Real estate must be low carbon to survive

With the enforcement of CSRD directive in Europe this year, it will only get harder to lease real estate that is environmentally obsolete, says ICAWOOD’s Laurence Desmazieres.

Look Ahead 2024: Bouwinvest to move from selling to buying

Bouwinvest’s Stephen Tross is expecting the market to turn in mid-2024 and wants to be ready to pounce on opportunities.

UK’s largest LGPS pool launches two global real estate funds

Border to Coast Pensions Partnership has established core and value-add vehicles with a combined target of £1bn in partner fund commitments.

SFDR Article 8 and Article 9 should be scrapped, says INREV

The industry body has urged the European Commission to consider a new labeling system akin to what the UK FCA is proposing for the SDR.

Biodiversity replacement ‘is not enough’

New rules coming into force in the UK will prove demanding for real estate and other developers, writes Elisabeth Jeffries.

Taking charge of urban sustainability

Major urban developers and asset managers, with their deep pockets, need to take the reins of urban sustainability efforts to reach mandates from regulators as well as investors.

Making data centers sustainable

With demand for data centers showing no sign of slowing down, can such growth can ever be green?

Managing the ripple effects of transition risks

There are significant follow-on financial effects as the real estate industry looks to decarbonize, but there is a lot that managers can do, say CRREM’s Sebastian Leutner and Ben Höhn.

On the minds of the sustainable investing experts

Standardized regulatory frameworks and transparent data are needed around sustainable investing to drive informed decisions, says our panel.