Our colleague Juan José Lafuente has published an article about buildings stranding risk as a consequence of the EPC requirements. The article, titled ‘Sustainability: How EPC requirements could leave buildings at stranding risk’, explains how the new decarbonisation targets are a challenge for the UK Real Estate sector. The properties will need to adapt to […]
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Google’s tool ‘Environmental Insights Explorer’ is now available in Europe
Google created a tool to help cities to measure their pollution and their emission levels. The tool, which was available in the US, shows now information about Birmingham, Manchester and Dublin. In the future, other European cities like Wolverhampton, Coventry and Copenhagen will appear. The Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) offers data about: building emissions transport […]
Continue readingGRESB event “Sustainable Finance and Real Estate Investment in Europe”
Our colleagues from GRESB organized the past 19th September the event “Sustainable Finance and Real Estate Investment in Europe”. The meeting took place in Brussels and had the participation of professionals from different companies and institutions such as Martin Spolc (European Commission), Christopher Wright (Norges Bank Investment Management), Derk Welling (APG Asset Management), Fabrizio Varriale […]
Continue readingInvestors fund new initiative to assess climate change transition risk in global real estate investment portfolios
An investor-led initiative launched today will help real estate investors and managers to assess, manage and mitigate climate risk and to develop climate scenario-based strategies. The research will be carried out by the Austria-based Institute for Real Estate Economics (IIÖ), with the support of GRESB, the ESG Benchmark for Real Assets, and funded by APG, […]
Continue readingCRREM in the roundtable symposium ‘Property investing in the age of climate change’
Our colleague Rik Recourt (GRESB) has participated in the roundtable symposium ‘Property investing in the age of climate change’. The meeting was organized by CRREM, EY and Net Impact Amsterdam. The event took place in Amsterdam on 25 July. During the symposium, two panels were discussed. One of these panels included the introduction of CRREM’s […]
Continue readingCRREM at “Build Up”
The European Portal for Energy Efficiency in Buildings “Build Up” has mentioned our project on its webpage. Moreover, they have included our first report ‘Stranding Risk & Carbon’ in their publications library. Here you can visit our profile in ‘Build up’: https://www.buildup.eu/en/explore/links/crrem-project And the first report: https://www.buildup.eu/en/practices/publications/science-based-decarbonising-eu-commercial-real-estate-sector
Continue readingCRREM in the ERES Annual Conference 2019
Our colleague Prof. Sven Bienert (IIÖ) talked about CRREM during his presentation “Science based Pathway to Decarbonisation: Reducing Stranding Risks within the CRE sector” in the 26th Annual Conference of the European Real Estate Society (ERES). The conference took place in Cergy-Pontoise Cedex (France) the past 3-6 July, and the host was the ESSEC Business […]
Continue readingCRREM at the ULI’s Product Council Day
Our colleague Jens Hirsch attended the ULI’s Product Council Day. The meeting took place on the past 19th June in Copenhagen (Denmark). Dr Hirsch explained during the event the presentation ‘CRREM Report and Transitional Risk: Science Based Decarbonising of the EU Commercial Real Estate Sector’. Here you can find the agenda: ULI’s Product Council Day […]
Continue readingCRREM at the Berlin Energy Days
Dr Jens Hirsch, from IIÖ, presented at the ‘Berlin Energy Days’ (Berliner Energietage). The event, named “Climate neutral building stock until 2050!? Practical approaches for existing buildings”, was organised by the German Property Federation (ZIA). The meeting took place in Berlin on the 20th of May. Here you can find the presentation of Dr Hirsch […]
Continue readingCRREM at RICS webpage
The professional body RICS has published an article on their website talking about CRREM. The article explains the main objectives of the project and summarizes the first report, called ‘Stranding Risk & Carbon’. If you want to read the full article visit: https://www.rics.org/eu/news-insight/latest-news/news-opinion/decarbonisation-in-real-estate/
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