All Real estate articles
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PRI Web Page
PRI asset class and asset owner guidance advisory committees: call for new members
The PRI is looking for signatories to join its asset class and asset owner guidance advisory committees.
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PRI reporting analysis
Real estate: Insights from the 2023 reporting cycle
Reporting data shows real estate investors are increasingly integrating asset class specific ESG guidelines into their responsible investment policies.
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PRI reporting analysis
Global responsible investment trends: Inside PRI reporting data
This report finds that signatories have continued to enhance their RI practices, with RI policies becoming more detailed, action on sustainability outcomes more widespread and disclosures more in-depth since the 2021 reporting cycle.
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Webinar
Real estate investment: Understanding ESG capabilities & disclosures
This session will explore the updated due diligence questions that investors in real estate should ask their investment managers during selection, appointment and monitoring.
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Technical guide
Mapping ESG: A landscape review of certifications, reporting frameworks and practices
Explore the latest ESG mapping report by ULI, INREV and PRI
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PRI reporting analysis
Inside PRI data: Investment manager practices
There are many responsible investment practices that are now widely practised among the PRI’s investment manager signatories. A large majority publish core policies and have executive oversight of their implementation.
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Case study
Danica: Reaching net zero through sectoral target setting
Setting an ambitious target in the utilities sector.
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Recording
PRI in Person & Online: Breakout 2D - Reimagining the built environment for a sustainable future
This session will consider how investors can help build a new paradigm for an environmentally and socially sustainable built environment, from working with policymakers on sustainable planning and design, to identifying and financing the necessary emerging technologies and engaging with stakeholders such as local communities to identify needs and solutions.
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Case study
Harrison Street: Leveraging building design and operations to enhance occupant health
Measuring the sustainability performance of senior housing properties
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Case study
Bridge Investment Group: Workforce and affordable housing strategy
A private scalable market solution for preserving and rehabilitating housing and dedicated social programming for America’s workforce
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Case study
Investa Property Group: Managed funds targeting 100% green finance
Australian property fund aligns its portfolio with leading green bonds standards, targeting 100% green finance across core managed funds by 2025
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Case study
Divercity Urban Property Fund: Jewel City Precinct
Benchmarking affordable housing development projects against the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Workshop summary
Human rights in private markets: preventing and mitigating negative outcomes
Key points from a workshop on 15 September 2022 where private markets industry participants discussed how to prevent and mitigate negative human rights outcomes.
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Webinar
PRI - Real Estate Update - Q4 2022
Join us for updates on the Q4 2022 release of the PRI Real Estate programme and hear about recent and upcoming guidance from experts.
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Discussion paper
Closing the loop: Responsible investment and the circular economy
This paper clarifies how and why investors should contribute towards the transition to a circular economy, what actions they are taking, the relevant emerging metrics and standards for investors, and how they can start to scale up their action.
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Workshop summary
Human rights in private markets: identifying and assessing negative human rights outcomes
Key points from a workshop held on 30 June 2022 where private markets industry participants discussed how to identify and assess negative human rights outcomes.
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Blog post
ESG incorporation in real estate – what best practice looks like
Real estate investors not only play an important role in encouraging net zero targets in the sector, they also can play a part in bringing about positive social change.
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Technical guide
Incorporating climate change in private markets: An investor resource guide
A guide on the publicly available resources and initiatives available for direct and indirect private equity and real assets equity investors to help them incorporate climate change considerations in their investment process.
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Blog post
Partisanship and climate-exposed property purchases – a threat to investment in mitigation and adaption?
By Asaf Bernstein, Stephen B. Billings and Ryan Lewis, University of Colorado; and Matthew Gustafson, Penn State University
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Webinar
Managing systemic issues through active ownership
All PRI signatories have a duty to be active owners, yet conceptions of and actual practice related to active ownership vary significantly, particularly in real assets, private equity and private debt.