Green Edge, LLC

October 11, 2011  

 

We are pleased to take this opportunity to announce that we have just published two original Research Reports.  

 

The most recent is entitled Green Ranking Systems: How They Really Work. In this report we provide an in-depth analysis of seven green company ranking systems that differ significantly in their approach and results.

 

Green Company RankingsSince 2000, close to 100 of such ranking systems have been established. Although this proliferation of green ranking systems is a testament to the remarkable transition of sustainability from a fringe movement to a mainstream concern, both the corporate subjects of the ranking systems and their stakeholders---- the investors, consumers and regulators to whom the rankings are directed----are often confused as they attempt to navigate the myriad systems available.

 

Green Edge studied the following ranking systems in great detail over the course of more than a year: Corporate Knights Global 100, SB20, Tomorrow's Value Rating, Southeastern Corporate Sustainability Rankings, Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, Newsweek Green Rankings and the Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index.  

 

Our Research Report compares and contrasts these systems and their divergent methodologies and foci in order to enable our corporate and stakeholder audiences to identify which systems they can rely on and, perhaps more important, why.

 

The second is entitled Measuring the Sustainability of Real Estate Funds: A New Tool with Teeth. In this report we analyze a recently developed tool for ranking environmental stewardship, this time in the realm of public and private real estate funds.

 

Measuring the Sustainability of Real EstateThis tool, the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) was launched in 2009 by the GRESB Foundation,a consortium of academic institutions, institutional investors and industry bodies. Our Research Report follows the Foundation's August 2011 publication of the results of the second GRESB Survey.

  

GRESB seeks to reduce the built environment's carbon footprint by introducing transparency and competition. Real estate funds that choose to participate are asked to provide information about the carbon footprint of their investments including energy and water consumption, waste collection and recycling, greenhouse gas emissions and employment programs. The first series of questions focuses on policies and the place that environmental issues have in management decisions, while the second series of questions investigates the actual measurement and impact of these policies.

  

Please contact us for a copy of either of these original reports or to learn how your organization can be a leader when it comes to carbon footprint reduction and enjoy the financial benefits that accompany widespread recognition of  sustainability achievements. 

 

Warmly,

Ellen Sinreich Signature 
Ellen Sinreich
President

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