Sustainable Real Estate

Our clients include portfolio holders such as real estate, managing agents, facilities and properties managers and investment trusts who are proactive in considering the environmental, social, and economic performance of a development at the concept stage. GEP Environmental offer a service that establishes standards and processes within the Real Estate sector that deliver solutions to providing a more sustainable approach to private and public real estate.

Sustainability Reports

Sustainability Reports are released by businesses of all types, sizes and sectors, from every corner of the world. There are a number of Sustainability Reporting schemes that we are currently supporting clients with, including:

• Mandatory Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Reporting: quoted companies are required to report their annual GHG emissions in their Director’s Report.
• Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP): companies can voluntarily report on key environmental risks including Climate Change, Supply Chain, Water and Forests.
• Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB): property companies, fund managers and developers can voluntarily report on their sustainability performance on a Global basis.
• European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA): property companies, fund managers and developers can report on their sustainability performance on a European basis.

Sustainability Reports and submissions are independently checked by the reporting body and businesses are awarded a Score and/or Rating.

What are the benefits of reporting sustainability?

There are a number of internal and external benefits that can be achieved from reporting on sustainability including:

• Enabling investors and stakeholders to understand the business’s true value through both financial and non-financial performance;
• Benchmarking sustainability performance against competitors and sector standards to demonstrate sector leadership;
• Reassuring, retaining and attracting investors and stakeholders;
• Demonstrating long term objectives, strategies and plans to respond to environmental, social and economic pressures;
• Mitigating environmental, social and economic risks and capitalising on opportunities.

How can we help you?

We are successfully working with a number of customers to improve their overall sustainability performance and importantly to improve their Sustainability Reporting Score and/or Rating. GEP can help your business to:

• Understand its Sustainability Reporting requirements,
• Collect, collate and interpret data and information for reporting purposes
• Compile and generate Annual Reports and/or online submissions
• Create Evidence Pack’s to record all evidence used for your Report or submission
• Implement Scores and/or Ratings improvement plans