Real Assets

A report by the UN Environmental Programme highlights the many challenges faced by the real estate sector on its path to net zero, and finds discrepancies between the commitments made and the roadmaps to fulfil them

Manfredi Catella, CEO and chairman of COIMA, Italy’s biggest private real estate manager, tells Impact Investor how he is changing the face of Milan with a “genuine sense of caring”.

Simone Pozzato and Paul White are driving decarbonisation at Hines Real Estate, one of the largest real estate firms in the world. They talk to Impact Investor about the crucial role technology plays in the decarbonisation of the sector

FREO Group has laid the groundwork for a ‘zero energy’ office building. Its new ESG group officer and sustainable real estate manager Miriam Esders tells Impact Investor why this innovative concept is the future.
In many ways, Miriam Esders has the perfect background for her new role as ESG group officer & sustainable real estate […]

In her efforts to green the European logistics sector, GLP’s Natali Cooper describes the struggle to get granular data, and the growing awareness of climate risk..

Financial institutions will achieve greater impact if they focus on so-called place-based impact investing in regional regeneration, instead of lending to certain sectors.

Some $2.5trn of the UN development goals has yet to be invested and “75% of that gap is made up of critical infrastructure projects in the developing world,” says Philipp Mueller, chief executive officer of BlueOrchard Finance.

Real estate is a crucial frontier in fighting climate change. Meka Brunel, chair of the European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA), is demonstrating just how significant the sector’s impact can be.