Sonae Sierra achieves Green Star recognition in GRESB rankings 13 years in a row

Sierra Prime hold the second place in the Southern Europe shopping center core category and Iberia Coop coming third in the same core category.

Elsa Monteiro, Head of Sustainability at Sonae Sierra, said: “We are very proud that our focus is recognized with the outstanding five full stars, reflecting our commitment to develop, acquire and manage sustainable assets which contribute to enhancing urban communities while delivering stable returns to our partner investors.” Their assets ranked 27% above the GRESB average, 12% higher than their peers, while the performance of Iberia Coop’s assets was 26% better than the GRESB average, and 11% above the others.

Each year GRESB assesses and benchmarks the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance of real assets worldwide and monitors the sector’s progress towards global sustainability goals. The assessments are guided by what investors and the industry consider to be the material issues in sustainability performance of real asset investments and aligned with international reporting frameworks such as GRI and PRI.

In 2021, GRESB saw an increase of around 24% in the number of participants in the Real Estate assessment to 1,520 entities, generating a benchmark that covers $5.7 trillion of AuM and nearly 117,000 assets.