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What’s often overlooked is how interconnected these strategies are. One example of how biodiversity can strengthen decarbonization is through carbon storage. Resilience safeguards low-carbon systems against climate shocks. And healthy ecosystems boost resilience with natural protection. Together, they deliver compounding benefits that protect long-term value.
In this issue, we explore how decarbonization, resilience, and biodiversity strategies reinforce one another and how Verdani helps clients translate them into portfolio-wide action. |
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| Better Together: Decarbonization, Resilience, and Biodiversity |
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| Verdani Translates Climate Risk Into Portfolio Value: Decarbonization and Transition Risk Assessments Resilience and Physical Climate Hazard Assessments Nature and Biodiversity Solutions
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| Your Next Move: Protect the Value of Your Portfolio with Investor-Ready Building Resilience |
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| Challenge: A global real estate fund committed to portfolio-wide decarbonization and resilience targets but struggled to show progress at the asset level.
Approach: Outcome: Asset-level improvements rolled up to portfolio disclosures, meeting investor standards and demonstrating real progress on climate commitments. |
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| Decarbonization, resilience, and biodiversity are deeply interconnected, in the way that nature-based solutions can simultaneously reduce emissions, strengthen climate resilience, and protect ecosystems. Climate change and biodiversity loss fuel each other, so addressing one requires action on the others. Nature-based solutions are often more cost effective and impactful than traditional infrastructure, often offering operational savings and aligning with emerging regulations and sustainability goals. When addressing these three pillars of building sustainability, a holistic approach will be most effective and offer the greatest value to your property. |
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| Together, decarbonization, resilience, and biodiversity create future-ready portfolios that turn risk into opportunity. |
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| Verdani’s experts help real estate owners and investors quantify emissions risk, optimize renewable energy strategies, and chart credible pathways to net zero carbon emissions. Backed by decades of market experience, our team leverages tools — CRREM™ to model emissions pathways and REMI™ to assess off-site renewable energy options — to translate complex data into clear, actionable strategies for your portfolio. Resulting in lower operating costs, reduced transition risk, and stronger long-term asset value. Increase NOI and Protect Resale Value: Pinpoint where efficiency upgrades and renewable energy investments deliver the greatest impact, capturing opportunities for operational cost savings, while enhancing long-term portfolio performance.
Align with Regulations and Investor Demands: Stay ahead of emerging disclosure requirements and investor expectations, by translating emissions data into actionable roadmaps aligned with TCFD, IFRS, GRESB, and other frameworks.
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| Cutting emissions reduces costs and transition risk — but portfolios also need protection from physical climate hazards. |
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| Resilience & Physical Climate Assessments |
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| Verdani helps investors and asset managers protect portfolio value by translating physical climate assessments into clear, actionable strategies. Our experts combine deep market experience with regulatory foresight to identify exposures, strengthen asset resilience, and deliver compliance-ready reporting that satisfies investor and disclosure expectations — including California’s new climate disclosure laws (SB 261). Resulting in reduced downside risk, stronger asset protection, and credible disclosures that build investor confidence.
Our 5-step approach: Disclose: Deliver clear, defensible reporting aligned with IFRS S2, TCFD, GRESB, and emerging state and federal regulations.
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| Stronger buildings depend on stronger ecosystems. Nature-based solutions extend resilience and add value. |
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| Biodiversity is no longer a secondary issue — it’s a core financial and operational concern. For real estate owners, asset managers, and sustainability leaders, Verdani helps translate nature-related risks and opportunities into actionable strategies that align with TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures), GRESB, and emerging disclosure rules. Resulting in smarter risk management, operational savings, and stronger portfolio resilience.
Why biodiversity matters for your portfolio: Increase Tenant Retention and Lease Rates: Provide healthier, more attractive spaces drive satisfaction, renewals, and leasing premiums.
Our two-phase approach makes biodiversity actionable: Phase 1: Assess & Educate: Understand portfolio priorities, raise internal knowledge, and assess nature-related impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities (IDROs).
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| Challenge: An asset manager faced pressure from investors to demonstrate climate preparedness across a 40-property portfolio. Strategic targets were in place, but site-level execution lagged.
Approach: Verdani aligned investor disclosure requirements with building projects: Prioritized retrofit and resilience measures through property-level assessments.
Linked CapEx planning to decarbonization and biodiversity opportunities.
Provided asset-level project and vendor management support aligned with sustainability program goals and targets.
Standardized reporting so building actions directly supported TCFD, IFRS, and GRESB.
Outcome: Credibility with investors increased, disclosures were grounded in verifiable performance data, and properties delivered measurable risk reduction and operational savings. |
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| Protect the Value of Your Portfolio with Investor-Ready Building Resilience |
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| Integrating decarbonization, resilience, and biodiversity is central to protecting today’s assets and demonstrating long-term preparedness to investors and the market.
Verdani helps investment managers translate complex climate data into practical pathways that meet investor standards — delivering stronger disclosures, credible strategies, and confidence in portfolio performance. Let’s create a tailored roadmap for your portfolio. |
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| | | Verdani Partners is a sustainability management firm with over 25 years of experience supporting high-performance real estate portfolios. We help clients enhance operational efficiency, meet evolving regulatory and investor expectations, and prepare for long-term resilience. With nearly two billion square feet under our guidance, our services span strategy, implementation, performance improvement, carbon reduction, compliance readiness, green building certifications, and strategic communications. Partner with us to drive real impact and lasting value. |
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