Read our latest articles and news from ProptechOS about ESG in Real Estate. ESG refers to the integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance factors. This concept is increasingly important as the real estate industry seeks to align with broader sustainable and ethical practices.
Scheduled to come into effect in January 2024, the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) aims to revolutionize how sustainability reporting is conducted across Europe. For those in the commercial real estate (CRE) sector, grasping the CSRD and its implications is vital. It goes beyond traditional financial reporting by [...]
The commercial real estate industry has stepped up to redefine sustainability in a world of environmental challenges. Part of this transition involves the use of carbon accounting. By measuring and managing greenhouse gas emissions, carbon accounting has become a driving force for businesses determined to make a positive impact. [...]
BREEAM certification offers a holistic approach to sustainable building design, taking into account the economic, social, and environmental impacts of buildings throughout their lifecycle. The importance of BREEAM In-Use and the certification is growing due to the natural environment being impacted greatly by the expansion of our cities. Not to [...]
As our world continues to grapple with the devastating impacts of climate change, a new generation of property owners and investors now run the commercial real estate industry. This new generation seeks to embrace a more sustainable future clearly shown by the widespread adoption of the green movement. What [...]
If you're involved in the real estate industry, you may have heard the term ESG being thrown around a lot lately. ESG stands for environmental, social, and governance. It refers to the non-financial factors affecting a company's performance and reputation. In recent years, it went from a fancy buzzword [...]
What is the Living Building Challenge? The Living Building Challenge is a visionary program that sets the highest sustainable design and construction standards. Developed by the International Living Future Institute, the program involves a certification system beyond traditional green building standards. It requires buildings to operate entirely on renewable [...]
Environmental protection efforts are constantly jeopardized by increasing carbon emissions, plastic trash production, and underdeveloped infrastructure systems. As most of today's infrastructure designs are haphazard, planned out sustainable new construction is essential to finding a solution to these issues. To help solve these environmental issues, the U.S. Green Building Council [...]
What are ESG green buildings? Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) green buildings are the idea of positively impacting the environment and others by investing money. Many companies are addressing climate change and social progress in architecture and design. This means that ESG refers to businesses using their buildings and [...]
The EU Taxonomy is now becoming entrenched in the evaluation of financial investments across Europe. The Taxonomy itself is massive and complex. It consists of over 550 pages of committee-drafted language, nuanced and very “legal” in appearance. The EU green taxonomy aims at nothing less than a transformation of [...]
Today it requires operators to go out and manually read the sensor data from each individual building, but there is a new solution that allows the data to be in real-time and used to more than certification but also optimization. Idun ProptechOS analyses and collates all the sensor data automatically.
