Yu Siang Teo via Unsplash Intro As many turn to the green real estate industry, the importance of tracking ESG data in relation to the changing regulations, commitments, and environment are pertinent for property managers, both commercial and residential. When first integrating ESG into your real estate practice, there are three…

Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel via Unsplash Introduction Last fall, the European Commission unveiled a new energy efficiency strategy called ‘Renovation Wave’ that focused on the decarbonization of HVAC, tackling energy poverty, and renovating public buildings such as schools, hospitals and administrative buildings to be more green. The initiative was set…

Victor Garcia via Unsplash Overview Zero Energy Buildings, or ZEBs, have increasingly gained traction in the past decade. In Europe, there’s also a type of building called a NZEB (nearly zero-energy building), which describes a building that is in the works toward a zero-energy footprint but has yet to achieve it…

By: Julianna Eng & Mary Kate Henderson (Lookthrough Research) Jz Lim via Unsplash Intro Driven by recent global sustainability commitments like the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDP), many countries have set aggressive carbon emissions reduction goals and laid out plans to enforce sustainability standards in all sectors. A significant component…

By: Julianna Eng & Mary Kate Henderson (Lookthrough Research) Sustainable finance can be laterally defined through categories, but how is it measured? The answer is simple: frameworks. There are several frameworks that have been developed to meet the growing need for universal sustainable investing standards. These frameworks are mostly used…

By: Julianna Eng & Mary Kate Henderson (Lookthrough Research) Brandon Lee via Unsplash Intro Big Tech companies are making even bigger promises about their commitments to reduce their environmental impact. For example, in 2019 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made a pledge to source 100% of Amazon’s energy from renewable sources by…

By: Julianna Eng & Mary Kate Henderson (Lookthrough Research) Science in HD via Unsplash In 2010, Deepwater Horizon, the largest oil spill in history cost BP $65 million dollars. This environmental disaster caused a sharp decline in BP’s share price and it took four years for the company to recover…

Diving into ESG, Impact Investing, SRI, and more. By: Julianna Eng & Mary Kate Henderson (Lookthrough Research) Micheile Henderson via Unsplash According to Morningstar, reports show that $20.9 billion flowed into sustainable funds in the first half of 2020, almost equivalent to 2019’s total. The inevitable intersection of sustainability and…