A greener future

April 22, 2016 admin

Sustainability is of increasing importance to real estate investors, managers, operators and developers. In honor of Earth Day, here is a selection of recent stories on the topic:

Climate change at land’s end: Real estate investors like targeting coastal cities, but so does a seething Mother Nature
Sustainable metrics: Investors and investment managers are working hard to measure green achievement
Sustainability rising: More Asian institutional property investors are gravitating toward sustainable investment
PACE financing: A primer for real estate investment management professionals
Building sustainability: The tools investors need to develop a green portfolio
NOI evidence: A 10-year study shows green-building strategies pay off
Managing green: Will sustainability cause the 21st century to be the Age of the Asset Manager?
Just measures: Predicting a minimum energy future for European real estate
Filling an ESG data gap for infrastructure investors: Investors respond with new tools to manage and measure environmental, social and governance issues in their portfolios
The intelligent edifice: New technologies promise to boost building IQs and create architectural ecosystems
On a mission: For religious institutions, ESG investing is more than a catchphrase
50 shades of green: Sustainability’s mission has only just begun, and the control room is filling up

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Loretta Clodfelter is editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas.

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