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An unrivalled Sustainability Reporting and Assurance service
Upstream Sustainability Services offer an unrivalled sustainability reporting and assurance service. We have supported our clients in the delivery of their sustainability and corporate responsibility (CR) reports for over 10 years, including sustainability reports for Hammerson, The Berkeley Group, The Crown Estate, Hermes Real Estate, SEGRO, Workspace Group and PRUPIM.
Sustainability Reporting Service
Our sustainability consultancy team offer tailored sustainability / corporate responsibility (CR) reporting solutions to meet client budget and brief. We offer a full reporting service from concept through to the delivery of a hard copy and/or web based report. This service enables companies in the real estate sector to produce sustainability reports which:
- Reflect business priorities
- Clearly communicate commitment to sustainability / corporate responsibility (CR)
- Respond to stakeholder requirements
- Meet global best practice sustainability reporting standards including GRI and AA1000
Sustainability Assurance Service – Assurance to GRI sustainability principles
Upstream Sustainability Services can offer clients independent and expert assurance services from highly respected practitioners in the fields of real estate and corporate responsibility (CR). Our assurance engagements (based on the best practice ISAE 3000 assurance standard and AA1000 principles) are tailored to the needs of our clients and can include:
- Assurance to the GRI ‘G3’ principles and to GRI Level C+ or B+
- Assurance of core report elements such as key performance indicators and target progress
Assurance of your sustainability reports enables you to produce a sustainability report which:
- Demonstrates credibility
- Provides an independent external opinion on your performance
- Responds to stakeholder requirements for external verification
Targeted Sustainability Communications and Training
We have extensive experience in developing sustainability communications for real estate clients which are targeted at a specific audience. This includes:
- Development of marketing materials to help sell the sustainability attributes of a building to purchasers
- Engagement with occupiers on sustainability issues
- Responding to investors (including assisting companies to participate in initiatives such as the Carbon Disclosure Project)
- Sustainability training for employees, site operatives, suppliers and other stakeholders
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Setting sustainability reporting best practice standards
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) is the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework. In 2009 Jones Lang LaSalle/Upstream Sustainability Services was appointed as the consultant leading the development of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Construction and Real Estate Sector Supplement, to be published in 2011. This provides us with a unique understanding of current and future best practice sustainability reporting standards within the sector.
Upstream Sustainability Services has also been selected (in 2009) to support the development of a real estate section of the Prince of Wales’s Connected Reporting Framework, the objective of which is to link financial value and sustainability performance. |
“We provide guidance and support through the sustainability reporting and assurance process from start to finish, enabling companies to conceive and compile, draft and design a report and sustainability communications that reflects their vision of sustainability and celebrates what they have achieved.”
Sophie Walker,
Upstream Sustainability Services
For more information contact:
Sophie Walker
Senior Consultant
+44 (0) 20 7399 5078
sophie.walker@eu.jll.com |