SPONSORED: Ardian — A way to measure real estate’s carbon impact

Real estate has long been identified as a major contributor to carbon dioxide emissions, but it has not been as simple to accurately measure those emissions, or measure the effect of carbon-reduction efforts. More difficult, still, is measuring how those efforts weigh in real estate’s return to investors. Ardian has developed a return on carbon invested (ROCI) metric to help it identify strategies at the asset level that encourage sustainability and maximize value, according to a report by Stéphanie Bensimon, head of real estate for Ardian, “A new way to measure the real carbon impact of real estate operations.” Published in the April issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, the sponsored report explains, “… the ROCI measures the ratio between the carbon emitted during the real estate renovation and the carbon saved as a result of this renovation. In other words, it measures the extent to which the carbon we emit during our renovations is offset by the significant sav