Sustainability Street: Tracking REITs' ESG Progress

Commercial Property Executive

Welcome back to Sustainability Street, our podcast on the intersection of commercial real estate and the world we live. For this episode, I am chatting with Jessica Long, NAREIT's senior vice president of Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability, following the release of the sixth annual REIT Industry Sustainability Report.

The report tracks ESG progress for the 100 largest REITs by market capitalization in five areas: transparency and reporting, leadership & governance, resources & resilience, workforce & culture and community and business connections.

Here are some highlights of the topics we discussed:

• The public path to sustainability (2:39)
• Energized by results (7:35)
• Room for improvement (11:45)
• A maze of frameworks & standards (16:40)
• The business case for DE&I and ESG (19:10)
• Reimaging real estate amid the climate crisis (23:30)