Sustainability
Global Sustainability Outlook 2023 Report
The Sustainability Outlook is an annual publication for ULI to share insights from member experts on the key ESG issues that will impact strategic real estate and land use decision-making each coming year. Based on the knowledge shared by these experts, the ULI Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate, in collaboration with Ferguson Partners identified five issues that will shape real estate decision-making in the months ahead and beyond:
- Adjusting ESG Strategy for Macro-Economic Complications
- Embedding Transition Risk in Transactions & Valuations
- Harnessing the Power of Collaboration
- Addressing Global Flood Challenges
- Responding to Government Influence
Innovation in the inventory era – digital transformation of the real estate industry in the Greater Bay Area
Ernst & Young Transactions Limited (EY) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) have co-developed the “GBA prop-tech white paper” (the white paper) around the theme of technology innovation and digital transformation of the real estate industry in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA).
Prop-tech has become the main driving force for the latest real estate industry revolution and enterprise transformation. Under the dual pressures of China’s tightening housing policy and rising operation costs, real estate enterprises must break new ground for growth, entailing new approaches in management and operation.
This white paper addresses the status and future opportunities of the prop-tech industry in the GBA. With a hope to inform traditional real estate participants in their efforts to meet the needs of the inventory era by undergoing digital transformation. The study has a wide coverage of industry sectors, including investment and finance professionals, real estate developers, leading technology companies and start-ups, urban planning companies, consultants, government bodies and non-profit organizations. The diversity of the respondents’ background imparts a broad spectrum of views and richness of experience in the white paper.
Read the full report of Innovation in the inventory era – digital transformation of the real estate industry in the Greater Bay Area on ULI’s Knowledge Finder
Climate Migration and Real Estate Investment Decision-Making
Based on interviews gathering insights from senior real estate investors and industry leaders as well as analysis of historical and emerging trends, this new ULI and Heitman report highlights the need for a deeper understanding of the risks and opportunities posed by climate migration and presents a new model for assessing how climate migration impacts real estate investment. By bringing climate migration considerations into the broader array of climate risk and investment strategies, real estate can become a proactive leader in making places and people more resilient.
ULI Global Sustainability Outlook 2022
The second annual Sustainability Outlook is based on interviews with members of the ULI Americas Sustainable Development Council, the ULI Europe Sustainability Council, and the ULI Asia Pacific Resilient Cities Council who were asked what sustainability topics and issues are on the rise, why they matter, and what the industry should do about them. This member-only report highlights five critical concerns in the real estate market and the issues that require more industry collaboration amid the growing climate crisis.
Read the full report on ULI’s Knowledge Finder. This report is available in local languages including English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
In the Eye of the Storm: How Centuries of Disaster Make Tokyo a Case Study in Urban Resilience
Tokyo’s long history with
natural catastrophes has shaped the way the city has established a framework for urban resilience that has lasted to present day. ULI Asia Pacific’s report, In the Eye of the Storm, takes a look into how the combination of physical and cultural preparedness has propelled Tokyo into becoming one of the most resilient cities in the world.
Building Climate Resilience in Cities Worldwide – 10 Principles to Forge a Cooperative Ecosystem
Cities everywhere are facing mounting physical, social, and economic challenges from climate risks – especially coastal cities, which are highly vulnerable to sea-level rise and flooding. Building resilience to these impacts will require cooperation and partnership between all sectors – public, private, non-profit, and academic. Building Climate Resilience in Cities Worldwide: 10 Principles to Forge a Cooperative Ecosystem aims to facilitate that process by sharing international examples of collaborative resilience-building and synthesizing lessons transferable to any city, based on local contexts and risks. Led by the Singapore Ministry of National Development’s Centre for Liveable Cities, this book’s insights and 10 Principles were developed through input gathered through workshops, focus groups, and interviews held with resilience experts in Singapore, Hong Kong, Rotterdam, New York, and Miami. In addition to supporting the Principles, the book also profiles each of those cities’ resilience strategies and practices as case studies. Both municipal and business perspectives (including real estate, banking and finance, insurance, etc.) are addressed, with an eye toward mobilizing funding and governance structures to effectively support climate resilience.
Scorched: Extreme Heat and Real Estate
Extreme heat is the most widespread and deadly weather-related hazard in the United States, and it is worsening due to both climate change and urban development patterns. It is a complex problem that has significant impacts on human health, and the built environment offers numerous opportunities for mitigation.
Scorched: Extreme Heat and Real Estate outlines how extreme heat will affect the real estate and land use sectors and highlights the leadership and the potential positive impact of the real estate sector in implementing “heat-resilient” building designs and land uses. The report provides an overview of extreme heat’s connections to the built environment and an in-depth discussion of heat mitigation and adaptation strategies related to building design, building materials, green infrastructure and public space design. These strategies can “future-proof” real estate in vulnerable markets; lower operations and management costs; improve tenant and occupant experience; and otherwise differentiate a real estate project.
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Futureproofing Real Estate from Climate Risks: New ULI Research in Partnership with Heitman
How does climate change currently impact real estate investment decision-making? What are the emerging best practices for investment managers, institutional investors and others to identify and mitigate new and unprecedented risks?
Many assets held by real estate investors are in cities vulnerable to the effects of climate change – ranging from more intense and frequent weather events such as hurricanes, typhoons, and wildfires to more gradual changes such as sea-level rise or shifting weather patterns.
ULI partnered with Heitman, a global real estate investment management firm, to assess the potential impacts of climate change on the long-term viability of real estate assets. Derived from a series of interviews with leading institutional investors, investment managers, investment consultants and others, the report provides members with an inside look at how real estate investors are factoring climate risk into their investment decision-making and management processes.
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Sharing Global Best Practices – Sustainable Communities
The “Sharing Global Best Practices – Sustainable Communities” by ULI China Mainland was initially funded by ULI Foundation’s Urban Innovation Grant awarded in October, 2014. Subsequently, the project received further support from ULI member companies and ULI members based in Shanghai as well as Architecture 2030 and Green Building Professional Partnership (GBPP).
Based on the recommendations of the first workshop conducted with Shanghai-based ULI members, ULI China Mainland produced case study reports on 1) increasing urban density – Arlington, Virginia, U.S., 2) ULI Greenprint Center, and 3) ULI Reality Check. These reports produced in the fall of 2015 in English and Chinese were distributed in various ULI and real estate industry events and also served as key reference materials in ULI events, most notably in product council meetings in December, 2015 as part of the ULI China Mainland Winter Meeting held in Shanghai in December, 2015.
In addition, the project culminated in a half-day seminar in Shanghai on June 14, 2016. The articles included in this report were submitted by the speakers in the seminar. The seminar was jointly organized by ULI Chinese Mainland, Architecture 2030, and GBPP. It is intended that the report will be distributed in future events organized and/or participated by any of the co-organizers and serve as an important reference material in such events.
Building the Future: The Role of Heritage in the Sustainable Development of Yangon
A report on the proceedings from an international conference held in Yangon, Myanmar January 15-17, 2015 entitled Building the Future: The Role of Heritage in the Sustainable Development of Yangon. The event brought together Myanmar government officials, international experts, nonprofit representatives, and members of the media in an effort to advance a dialogue about how to integrate heritage with development in Yangon. The report includes recommendations for creating sustainable development policies that utilize heritage conservation to achieve physical, economic and social benefits. World Monuments Fund and the Yangon Heritage Trust hosted the event, with generous support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, and several individual donors.
Ten Principles for Urban Regeneration – Making Shanghai a Better City
The urban regeneration study produced by ULI China Mainland aims to offer several basic directions for bettering Shanghai. All of the principles discussed herein share
the same greater directive: urban regeneration should better the physical, social, and economic fabric of society. A city is not its buildings but rather a collection of interlocked pieces – its culture, public space, infrastructure, government,
natural resources, and more. When these pieces are managed well, integrated with fluidity, and encouraged to thrive, they better the quality of their inhabitants’ lives.
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Typhoon Yolanda and Tacloban, Philippines – Initial Review Report
Natural disasters occur frequently in the Philippines and other countries in the region. As one of the principles in ULI’s Ten Principles for Metro Manila’s New Urban Core, “being prepared” is essential to ensure that the devastation caused by natural disasters is minimized. With concern growing over the impact of climate change, it is good to understand the importance of resiliency and livability in addition to sustainability. Cities and communities that are vulnerable to natural disasters should learn from each other and be better prepared to prevent loss of lives and to minimize damage to property, businesses, and people’s economic livelihoods.
Creating Resilient and Livable Cities
A new Pacific Cities Sustainability Initiative (PCSI) report published by Urban Land Institute and Asia Society presents practical strategies for cities seeking to become more resilient and more livable.
Tomorrow’s City Today
New report produced by Urban Land Institute and Asia Society showcasing inspiring and innovative ideas from experts at the 2013 Pacific Cities Sustainability Initiative (PCSI) Forum.
Ten Principles for Sustainable Development of Metro Manila’s New Urban Core
Place making, better urban mobility, increased resilience to natural disasters, affordable housing policies and engaging with an empowered population are among some of the recommendations in a new Urban Land Institute (ULI) report on the development of Metro Manila.
10 Principles for Liveable High Density Cities
Innovative planning, design and development practices that emphasize a “people-first” focus can help ensure that rapid urbanization does not compromise liveability and sustainability, according to a new publication 10 Principles for Liveable High Density Cities: Lessons from Singapore by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC).
Ten Principles for a Sustainable Approach to New Development
Ten Principles for a Sustainable Approach to New Development examines how to better connect Hong Kong’s large-scale developments to street life. According to the report, the massive scale of the podium-style developments have increasingly lost their functional relationship to the urban street grid, often resulting in the isolation of land uses.
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Seven Principles of New Macau Urbanism
Is there another place such as Macau in this world? Perhaps overlooked at times, it is an exotic, vibrant, fast growing city uniquely merging the confluence of preserved historical districts, surrounded by the South China Sea, the largest integrated resort gaming business in the world, and a wonderfully iconoclast place of Chinese and Portuguese residents, with an explosion of International visitors…
Scorched: Extreme Heat and Real Estate
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- Asia Pacific Report (English Version)
- Asia Pacific Report (Chinese Version)
- Asia Pacific Report (Japanese Version)
Futureproofing Real Estate from Climate Risks: New ULI Research in Partnership with Heitman
Sharing Global Best Practices – Sustainable Communities
Building the Future: The Role of Heritage in the Sustainable Development of Yangon
Ten Principles for Urban Regeneration – Making Shanghai a Better City
Typhoon Yolanda and Tacloban, Philippines – Initial Review Report
Creating Resilient and Livable Cities
Ten Principles for Sustainable Development of Metro Manila’s New Urban Core
10 Principles for Liveable High Density Cities
Ten Principles for a Sustainable Approach to New Development