International property company Sonae Sierra has joined the global Recovery Better initiative, pledging to follow a sustainable path out of the global health crisis, in parallel with over 150 multinational firms.
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Downtown One, a mixed-use project in Tirana, Albania, has been awarded Leed Gold, becoming the first building in the country to be Leed pre-certified by the US Green Building Council.
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Westbridge Advisory International, an operating costs consultancy, has helped Commerz Real achieve sustainable savings on a six-building portfolio in France.
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Pan-European real estate investment manager Redevco has joined forces with Cofra Holding to initiate a large-scale on-site renewable energy generation project called Project Solar.
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The French cities of Dijon and Saint-Etienne have become the first cities to approve the development of 'energy-positive’ residential towers, under a €2 bn pan-European investment programme launched by Berlin-based Catella Residential Investment Management (CRIM) and French building engineering design company Elithis.
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CBRE Global Investors has closed a sustainability-linked revolving credit facility (RCF) with Dutch bank ABN Amro, where the levels of interest payment are yoked to one of its fund's ESG performance.
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UK building and project consultancy Paragon has launched a green investment service to help funds set and attain specific environmental targets.
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For the second year in a row, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has been highlighted as a global leader on corporate climate transparency and action by environmental impact non-profit Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), achieving a score of “A” for its 2019 climate change response, the highest in the CDP Climate Change assessment.
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Pan-European real estate investment manager Redevco has committed to make its whole portfolio net zero carbon – a total of more than 330 assets across the continent.
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Nordic private equity investor NREP has become the first real estate company in the region to join RE100, a coalition of firms committed to 100% renewable energy.
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LGIM Real Assets (Legal & General) has hired James Spencer-Jones from Cushman & Wakefield as its new head of Real Estate Debt, Europe, and established a new Private Credit Leadership Team as it looks to continue and grow its private credit business for the future.
