A high level summary of what's being discussed in recent committee meetings:
- Impact investing education- an event exploring 'social impact vs social value' was held on 9 Demember and will be complimented by an educational paper.
- ESG Metrics in MSCI outputs - the Committee is supporting MSCI in its production of ESG metrics to be included in MSCI products, such as Property Fund Vision and the Index.
- Retrofitting - A second event focussed on solutions took place on 25 November. It was well attended by a wide range of organisation and the roundtable nature of the event provided the opportunity for attendees to actively contribute. The Committee is now discussing a third event. Post-event details can be found here.
- Just Transition - the working group has now published three articles, which can be found here. Consideration is now being given to a corresponding event .
- Stranded assets - the Committee, in discussion with AREF's Tax Committee, is drafting a paper to look at tax support for standard assets. It has requested the addition of zero-rate VAT on the refurbishment of economically stranded assets as part of AREF's Budget recommendations.
- SDR guidance - an update of the original guidance was published in December.
- Tenant data collection - a working group has been convened to discuss the different approaches to tenant data collection with aim to produce a guidance note on the most appropriate approach.
- Debt and ESG webinar - discussions on a webinar covering debt and ESG are underway and with a proposed end-March event date.
- Five-year roadmap - a working group is debating the key themes to an update of the Committee's five-year roadmap, which originally created in 2021.
- Lobbying - the Committee liaise with AREF’s Public Policy Committee on ESG & impact investing policy and legislative changes & AREF monitors and responds where necessary. View our industry consultation responses and other lobbying activity here.
Next meeting: Thursday 23 April
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