Investors’ Outreach Initiative: Real Assets Roundtable on ESG as the "ESG as the New Age Mantra" 2021 | APREA | 28 September 2021 | Online Event

The roundtable will be a closed-door meeting amongst the members and partners, that gathers institutional investors, asset managers for:
• LP Knowledge sharing
• LP-GP-Other stakeholders connect
• Insights into different markets/asset classes/strategies/case studies

Topics to be discussed by the discussion leaders:
• Physical Risk Assessment and TCFD Reporting: Asian cities quite often score high on physical climate risk assessments. Does current reporting really give insight?
• Embodied Carbon: As the majority of new build buildings will be in Asia, there is an enormous opportunity to build according to net zero in-use standards, but embodied carbon is also an important factor.
• Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor tool and disclosure: Monitoring transition risk or too ambitious targets?
• Disclosures: What transparency do the investors want. Role of investors in driving change.
• Net Zero Targets Real world change or greenwashing: A 2050 net zero commitment is easy, but what are the difficulties if you do not only want to depend on green energy procurement and offsets.

2021 Speakers

Sigrid Zialcita
CEO, APREA

Priyaranjan Kumar
Managing Director, Alvarium Investments

Esther An
Chief Sustainability Officer, City Developments Limited (CDL)

Angel Tang
Deputy General Manager
China Overseas Commercial Properties CO., Ltd., 中海商业副总经理 唐安琪

Ryuta Takeuchi
President & CEO, Diamond Realty Management Inc. ("DREAM")

Michael Holland
Chief Executive Officer, Embassy Office Parks REIT

Vincent van Bijleveld
Managing Director, Global Real Estate Engagement Network (GREEN)

Sharad Gohil
Managing Director, Head of Asset Management, Indospace

MODERATOR:

Prof. Piet Eichholtz
Partner, Finance Ideas and Professor of Real Estate Finance, Maastricht University