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Investors Want Climate Action – Will the UK Deliver? 82% of UK-based institutional investors (surveyed) are concerned about climate-related risks to their portfolios, and 40% have already sold or reduced holdings due to exposure. This begs the question - will long-term hold investment products be deemed riskier in a future with greater unknowns clouded by changing climate risks? A new survey by think tank E3G highlights two major threats to investment: ✅ Physical risks – floods, heatwaves, and extreme weather disrupting business operations. ✅ Transition risks – fossil fuel-dependent assets losing value as the world shifts to clean energy. The financial impact is already massive. Last year, extreme weather caused £261 billion in global damage. The survey identified 88% of investors say they’re more likely to invest in a sector backed by a government sectoral investment plan, and 86% support transition planning as a key tool for investment decisions. The upcoming government consultation on mandatory transition planning is a crucial opportunity to provide certainty, attract investment, and strengthen the UK’s economic competitiveness. At LifeProven, we help real estate investors understand and mitigate climate risks—because resilience isn’t just good for business, it’s essential. Talk to the LifeProven team about how we can help you deliver future-proof real estate assets. #LifeProven #ClimateRisk #ESG #SustainableInvestment #FutureProofing

Climate Change: A Game of Opposites More flooding. More droughts. More heat stress. More water shortages. The real estate sector is facing a paradox of risks—so how do we build resilience? On the latest ESG in Property Podcast episode, Nils Rage, Head of ESG at Stanhope PLC, explains how they are adapting its developments and portfolio to future-proof assets: • Climate Resilience – Partnering with Aon to assess risks like flooding, heat stress, and water shortages, leading to practical solutions like flood barriers and bioswales. • Embodied Carbon – Setting clear carbon targets at a package level, making it easier for suppliers to reduce emissions. • Green Leases – Shifting the focus from contracts to real tenant engagement, ensuring sustainability goals translate into action. • Stakeholder Collaboration – From designers to contractors, aligning all parties is key to making ESG deliver tangible outcomes. 🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/dNFzgsYP What’s the most significant barrier to delivering climate-ready, low-carbon real estate? Let us know in the comments.

Sofi Zickerman White: A Rising Star in ESG We’re proud to share that our Associate Director, Sofi Zickerman White, has been nominated for the One to Watch award at the YN Property Awards Dinner 2025! Sofi leads LifeProven’s ESG Delivery Partner function, advising some of the largest real estate asset holders on climate risk, asset resilience, and sustainability strategies. A big thank you to General Projects for sponsoring this event and to Ben Harshak, Co-Founder of The SoCo and Member of the Committee for Norwood, for his work in supporting this year’s awards. We’re looking forward to celebrating Sofi’s achievements—good luck tonight! #LifeProven #YoungNorwood #ESG #Sustainability #RealEstate

What is the biggest risk in real estate? Inaction. Climate change, regulation, and market shifts are redefining real estate. The difference between future-proofed assets and stranded ones comes down to one thing—action. During MIPIM 2025, our Co-Founders, Adam Hinds and Jordan Relfe MRICS, will be in Cannes to discuss how the industry can move beyond ambition to deliver truly resilient real estate. Want to chat? Reach out to arrange a meeting—or join their Morning Social Run & Swim (all welcome). #MIPIM2025 #RealEstate #ESG #Sustainability #RiskManagement #AssetResilience

New York’s $75 Billion Climate Cost RECOVERY Law: A Game-Changer for Accountability New York just set a powerful precedent. The Climate Change Superfund Act signed into law on Dec 26th will charge fossil fuel companies $3 billion per year, for greenhouse gases they emitted between 2000 - 2018; shifting liabilities from taxpayers to fossil fuel companies.  The Key Facts: → Who’s paying?  ↳ Companies responsible for over 1 billion tons of emissions (2000–2018) → How much?  ↳ A total of $75 billion over 25 years, with payments starting in 2028 → Where does the money go?  ↳ Strengthening infrastructure—roads, transit, water systems, and buildings—to withstand climate impacts Why This Matters The law is holding companies accountable, and they are doing it against retroactive business activities (2002 - 2018). This approach shifts liability from taxpayer to a 'polluter-pays' model. The Bigger Picture → Legal pushback is expected, but if upheld, this could inspire global legal action. → This is the beginning of corporate climate accountability, not the end. Could this model be applied elsewhere? The political movements surrounding ESG are everywhere at the moment, the key is to stay alert as to what is happening globally; and how it connects to your geographical location. There are ALOT of moving pieces at the moment, as always we will keep you updated on how best to navigate changing risks and opportunities in real estate for better impact, and commercial and reputational outcomes. #Sustainability #ClimateAction #ESG

The UK's Big Solar Move – But Is It Enough? The UK government just approved 1GW of new solar projects, a step forward for clean energy. But forecasts suggest we’re still 32GW short of our 2030 target. What’s being done? The Clean Power 2030 Action Plan is targeting bottlenecks in planning, grid connections, and energy storage. Plus, Great British Energy aims to accelerate public investment in renewables. So why are we still behind? ↳ Solar PV – Forecasted to hit 29GW, but needs 45-47GW. ↳ Onshore wind – Expected at 17GW, falling 10GW short. ↳ Offshore wind – Projected at 37GW, missing the 43-50GW goal. ↳ Planning delays & grid constraints – Slowing down deployment. ↳Investment uncertainty – Regulatory shifts making private capital hesitant. With growing demand from energy-hungry data centres and AI, the UK is trying to scale renewables faster, to avoid the risk of increased reliance on fossil fuels. At LifeProven, we help real estate owners, asset managers and developers to achieve energy resilience, working with amazing suppliers like Eden Sustainable Ltd - helping underpin commercial performance, and lower operational costs and emissions. If you are a real estate portfolio holder or asset manager - contact the team to discuss how we can help create onsite energy resilience for your assets.

Setting ESG targets is easy. Delivering them is harder. In the latest ESG in Property Podcast, Nils Rage, Head of ESG at Stanhope PLC, breaks down three major challenges in sustainable real estate—and importantly how to overcome them: 1. 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 (𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝗮𝘃𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲) Most net-zero strategies focus on operational carbon, but up to 70% of emissions come from construction materials. A whole building whole life carbon assessment (WLCA) is too high-level for teams to know how best to influence carbon savings.  To solve this, developers should break up the WLCA into contractor-specific work packages - giving each package a baseline and target to improve. i.e. a facade-specific package reduction target / a window-specific package target etc. This approach is gold. 2. 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. Many tenants remove sustainability clauses before signing, due to perceived risk, overreach or misunderstanding. The solution? Early human interactions, not just contracts via email. Meet, explain why it is important, and explain the pros and cons for each of you. After all, it is a mutual partnership - and both of you need to be on board to make an impact. 3. 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿, 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲. Specialist suppliers know their craft. They know it better than anyone else. Instead of forcing designs onto them to price, use a collaborative approach by allowing them to innovate the design solution as well. Quite often, their ideas improve sustainability or carbon outcomes - without adding cost. Find out more in the episode: https://lnkd.in/dNFzgsYP Keep up the amazing work Stanhope and Nils Rage Do you have any other sustainable ideas to add to the list? Let us know in the comments. 👇

𝗠𝗜𝗣𝗜𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Our Co-Founders, Adam Hinds and Jordan Relfe MRICS, will be in Cannes for MIPIM 2025 - discussing how to deliver the world's most resilient real estate. Contact Adam or Jordan to arrange a meeting, or join their Morning Social Run & Swim (all welcome). LifeProven: We help the world's largest & most ambitious real estate owners, asset managers and developers to create the most sustainable assets on earth. How? By managing the impact, cost and delivery actions through the full investment lifecycle. #MIPIM2025 #RealEstate #ESG #Investment #Sustainability #AssetManagement  

What does it take to build a resilient business from the ground up? From Idea to Impact: The LifeProven Story Our Co-Founder Jordan Relfe MRICS recently joined the Behind the SME podcast to talk about how he and Adam Hinds built LifeProven into one of the UK's most innovative real estate advisory firms - winning multiple awards while advising the world's largest real estate investors. Starting a business wasn’t always the plan. But after experiencing the challenges faced by integrating commercial performance, social impact and sustainability in a slow-moving industry, Jordan and Adam realised the best way to drive meaningful change was to found something themselves, working with the world's largest and most ambitious asset owners and managers to deliver future resilient assets. In the episode, Jordan shares the realities of entrepreneurship—what it takes to manage risk, build the right team, and stay resilient through uncertainty. 🔹 Managing risk and scaling up – From navigating uncertainty to hiring the right people, resilience has been key to their success. 🔹 Taking full ownership – At LifeProven, accountability is everything. Every team member is responsible for delivering high standards and real results. 🔹 The power of communication – Clear, transparent communication has shaped both LifeProven’s culture and client relationships. They even created a ‘Communication Charter’ to keep everyone on the same page. 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gG9GiJ7Q If you like what you hear about the company's culture, LifeProven is always looking for the most passionate and driven humans to join the team - feel free to send your CV to hello@lifeproven.co.uk for new roles.

The Principles for Responsible Investment is changing considerably, following the publication of the 2024-2027 strategy: https://lnkd.in/ebeHGp2Y The plan defines the transformative shift in how responsible investment practices are set to be advanced, with potential unintended consequences: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀? 1. Foundational Reporting:    → Changes to the reporting infrastructure where foundational reporting is the only mandatory signatory report. It is considerably streamlined, reporting against the 6 principles. 2. Progression Pathways:    → PRI is introducing tailored pathways, where asset managers can select their preferred targets and level of intent to pursue. PRI will provide resources to support the targets. 3. Regional Focus:    → PRI is strengthening its efforts in emerging markets such as Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. This inclusion ensures global ESG alignment and opens doors for collaboration across diverse markets. 4. Enhancing Collaboration:    → Through initiatives like Climate Action 100+, PRI seeks to encourage collaboration to enhance action. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵: 📆 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: The new reporting framework opens, featuring Progression Pathways. 📆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: Foundational Reporting becomes mandatory, simplifying accountability. 📆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳: Voluntary Progression Reporting launches, allowing organisations to showcase advanced ESG strategies. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗦𝗚 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀: PRI’s strategy empowers organisations to: • Focus resources on actions that drive real impact. • Collaborate on systemic challenges that demand collective solutions. • Build trust with stakeholders through meaningful progression and transparency. 𝗣𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵: • The change from a single framework to selective pathways makes it difficult to compare signatory outcomes on a like-for-like basis. This may negatively impact asset managers' due diligence. Please contact LifeProven if you need specialist support in navigating the changes; whilst driving your commercial, impact and reputational outcomes. #ESG #ResponsibleInvestment #Sustainability #LifeProven #PRI #realestate #sustainablerealestate