Post-event materials - CRREM Analysis Roundtable for AREF Members - 18th October 2021

Thank you to those who joined our virtual roundtable on the 18th October 2021, where the AREF ESG and Social Impact Investing Committee held a roundtable of sustainability pracitioners who actively use the CREMM tool to agree on common approach to how it should be used to assess and communicate risks, carbon reduction pathways and other approaches to managing the transition to the net zero economy.

The Carbon Risk in Real Estate (CRREM) tool has become key to how Commercial Real Estate defines climate risk exposure and the decarbonisation journey. The tool provides useful outputs which can inform strategy and investment risk. However, as CRREM flexibly supports multiple approaches to these risks and strategies, the ways it can be used is not well defined and open to interpretation.

Thank you to all our speakers for providing their insight on these highly topical issues and to members for their fantastic questions during the discussion. 

Speakers include:

• Moderator & Speaker: Sam Carson,  Head of Sustainability in CBRE's Valuations and Advisory Services team at CBRE

Sam Carson

Head Of Sustainability, Valuations and Advisory Services , CBRE UK

Sam is passionate about helping businesses become stronger through sustainability and to use energy more efficiently. Sam recently joined CBRE Global Investors. Before this he worked for Carbon Intelligence since 2011 and played a key role in the development of their data services, wellbeing and approach to Commercial Real Estate clients. 

Sam directed how Carbon Intelligence addressed Net Zero Carbon in Commercial Real Estate. He was a member of the UKGBC Advancing Net Zero working group and the UKGBC Energy Use Intensity Metric working group. He has worked with IPUT, Hermes Real Estate, Aviva Investors and others in the development of Net Zero planning.

Sam is also well engaged in the Commercial Real Estate industry, to help understand the key challenges across the sector. He sits on the GRESB European Benchmarking Committee, the BBP REEB Benchmarking Committee and is a member of the UKGBC Future Leadership Forum Advisory Board, and is a co-author of the UKGBC “Scope 3 Guide for Commercial Real Estate”.

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Next steps:

A short report will be released in the new year with findings from the discussion and useful tips. 

Author

Sam Carson

Head of Sustainability in CBRE's Valuations and Advisory Services team, CBRE UK

Sam is the Head of Sustainability in CBRE's Valuations and Advisory Services team, appointed to integrate ESG metrics into property valuations. He works with CBRE's valuations clients to understand the implications of ESG risks, as well as support market analysis of the impact of sustainability on asset value. He is particularly passionate about how to promote engagement between stakeholders across the property lifecycle to decarbonise buildings.  

Previously Sam was Director of Sustainability at Carbon Intelligence (formerly Carbon Credentials), advising real estate clients on the integration of ESG within property portfolios. During this time, he engaged widely across the real estate industry including sitting on the GRESB European Benchmark Committee, UKGBC Future Leadership Forum Advisory Board and BBP REEB Benchmark Committee. He also supported the UKGBC's Advancing Net Zero programme by participating in the Net Zero Carbon Task Group, Energy Performance in Offices Task Group, Renewable Energy Procurement and Offsetting Task Group and as a co-author of their "Scope 3 Guide for Commercial Real Estate".