It is never easy to be the first. Pioneering a new idea or service is a risk and usually comes with more failure than success. But eventually, if the idea or service is in demand, and the effort is persistent, results follow. That is where GRESB, a real assets data provider for environmental, social and governance benchmarks, finds itself with the release of its latest annual global results for the 2018 GRESB Infrastructure Assessment.

GRESB, which provides real asset ESG data to more than 75 institutional investors with more than $18 trillion in capital, reviews 75 infrastructure funds and 280 assets, including 25 portfolios, which completed a debt assessment, in its infrastructure assessment.

“We look forward to supporting our investor members to use this fresh data to engage with their funds and assets and enhance their decision making,” says Rick Walters, director infrastructure at GRESB. “Whilst the global infrastructure and SDG gaps are large and formidable