Building resilient real estate portfolios with decarbonization

Join the PERE Network to attend the inaugural Decarb Forum, gathering the largest asset owners and strategic partners to accelerate sustainable solutions and deliver financing to implement decarbonization plans.

Understand how asset owners are reducing portfolio carbon emissions to protect their investments and meet the sustainability consultants and technology innovators at the forefront of sustainability in real estate.

Explore topics including:

  • Leaders in sustainability define net-zero across the built environment, identify opportunities and challenges in the transition, and discuss regulations on sustainable investing
  • Decarbonizing Europe – understand leading asset owners’ net-zero strategies
  • Assessing, disclosing and pricing transition risks
  • Embodied carbon and how to tackle it
  • Harnessing technological innovation to accelerate your journey to net zero

Join the PERE Network membership today.

Europe Forum

The Decarb Forum is co-located with PERE Network’s Europe Forum taking place on 16-17 April 2024. The Europe Forum connects global fund managers with the biggest institutional investors in the region.

Add the Europe Forum to your itinerary so you can network with 100+ institutional investors and advance your fundraising with access to new and emerging private real estate opportunities.

Join now to gain access to both the Decarb Forum and the Europe Forum.

Safeguarding the future

Hear Isabelle talk about investing responsibly, driving climate action, and offering expert advice to ensure the long-term sustainability of your portfolio.

Gain valuable insight into how one of the world’s leading asset managers invests in line with a 1.5˚C goal.

Isabelle Scemama
Global Head
AXA IM Alts

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Reach your net-zero goals

Fine-tune your decarbonization strategies, combining lessons learned and new methodologies to meet net-zero commitments

Unparalleled networking

Unlock new opportunities by meeting with peers and hear directly from investors as they share challenges on the road to a low-carbon future

Be in-the-know on the latest sustainability innovations

Explore technologies that enable asset owners and developers to drastically reduce carbon emissions in real estate

Apply for a complimentary Institutional Investor pass

A limited number of complimentary passes are available for allocators and institutional investors to join the event.

Complimentary investor passes are limited to foundations, endowments, trusts, insurance companies, single family offices, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds who are actively making fund commitments and do not engage in third-party fundraising activities or collect fees for advisory/consulting services. 

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Thought leadership, branding and networking opportunities

Be part of thought-provoking discussions with leading institutional investors, fund and asset managers, developers, advisers, and strategic partners. Sponsorship gives you:

  • VIP access
  • Thought-leadership opportunities
  • High-profile branding
  • And much more …

For exclusive sponsorship packages for 2024, contact Nick Hayes, our Global Business Development Director of Real Estate at nick.h@peimedia.com

Institutional Investors at the PERE Decarb Forum 2024

A limited number of complimentary passes are available for allocators and institutional investors to join the PERE Network’s Decarb Forum.

Complimentary investor passes are limited to foundations, endowments, trusts, insurance companies, single-family offices, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds who are actively making fund commitments and do not engage in third-party fundraising activities or collect fees for advisory/consulting services.

Apply for a pass and a member of our team will follow up with you to secure your pass.

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Investors at PERE Decarb Forum 2024

The Forum gathers the largest investors and strategic partners to accelerate sustainable solutions and deliver financing to implement decarbonization plans.

Check out the benefits of joining the conference and who among your peers you will be joining. Apply for a complimentary pass for your or your team today.

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Hear from sustainability leaders

Network and arrange one-to-one meetings with the leading decarbonization experts.

Network with your peers

Build your network of peers, explore their net-zero strategies and understand implementation challenges.

Get the latest insights

Take advantage of our world-class speaking faculty to stay aligned with developments and the latest innovations in the market.

Decarbonize Europe

Future-proof your real estate portfolio, transition to a climate-neutral society and build a better future for all.

THE NETWORK FOR GLOBAL REAL ESTATE

Make better connections at the Decarb Forum and beyond

The PERE Network is a year-round program of networking and content that enhances the experience of our members at the PERE Europe Forum.

Members can connect with more than 1,200 investors and managers throughout the year, setup pre-meetings with those attending the Forum, meet in-person on the day, or pick up a conversation after the Forum:

  1. Find investors who match your investment strategies and set up meetings ahead of the event on our membership platform.
  2. Get personalised introductions to investors that fit your profile from our dedicated networking team before, during, and after the event.
  3. Access unique, critical insights exclusive to members throughout the year along with preferential rates to attend any event within the global PERE portfolio

PERE Network Members List

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Our network makes decisions that shape markets

Explore opportunities with investors from across the globe today with access to the most influential private real estate network.

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2024 speakers include:

PERE Decarb Forum brings together C-level executives and industry thought-leaders to discuss about sustainable solutions and deliver financing to implement decarbonization plans. Download the agenda to learn about the sessions to be discussed at the Forum.

 

Please contact Brix Sumagaysay at brix.s@pei.group for a discussion on key topics and speaking opportunities at the PERE Decarb Forum 2024.

Sven Bienert

Director, Competence Center of Sustainable Real Estate, University of Regensburg and Project Lead, Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor (CRREM)

Prof. Bienert has a chair for ESG/Sustainability at the university of Regensburg and was heading the real estate department with 60 employees there for many years. He received many awards for his research. Prof. Bienert had different industry positio… Read full bio

Georgia Dunne

Director, NatWest

Georgia is a Director in the Structured Real Estate Finance team, which specialises in large, complex transactions involving debt distribution. Georgia has been with the NatWest group for 10 years and has worked across a variety of Real Asset classes… Read full bio

Susanne Eickermann-Riepe

Chair, RICS European World Regional Board

Susanne Eickermann-Riepe FRICS is Chair of the RICS European World Regional Board and Chair of the Advisory Board of RICS Germany, a global professional association with over 134.000 members worldwide (www.rics.org). She is also the Chairwomen of the… Read full bio

Michele Giddens OBE

Co-founder & Co-CEO, Bridges Fund Management

Michele co-founded Bridges alongside Philip Newborough and Sir Ronald Cohen in 2002 and now oversees strategy, client development, talent development, public affairs and impact management. She sits on the Investment Committee for all Bridges funds an… Read full bio

Hannah Helmke

Founder & CEO, right. based on science

As CEO, I am responsible for managing the company and for making sure that our products respond to the needs and requirements of the market. My focus on economic activity in a world affected by climate change is the result of combining both my academ… Read full bio

Öykü Kurtoglu

Head of Sustainability & ESG, PAREF

Oyku Kurtoglu is the Head of Sustainability & ESG at Paris-listed Real Estate Investment Group – PAREF (ex-Paris Reality Fund). She previously worked in big groups such as Allianz, Danone, L'Oréal. Graduated from Galatasaray University in Managem… Read full bio

Erik Landry

Director, Climate Change, GRESB

Erik Landry is the Climate Change Specialist at GRESB, the global ESG benchmark for real assets covering USD5.3trn in real estate and infrastructure that is used by more than 100 institutional and financial investors. There he is responsible for GRES… Read full bio

Diana Louis

ESG Specialist Real Estate, MEAG

Responsible for ESG integration in Real Estate sector of MEAG. Studied civil engineering Master of Science at the Technical University of Dortmund. Member of the 'Energy and Building Technology' and 'Corporate sustainable responsibility' committees a… Read full bio

Claire McIntyre

Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Affairs, Oxford Properties Group

Claire McIntyre is Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Affairs at Oxford Properties Group, a leading global real estate investor, asset manager and business builder with over $80 billion in assets under management. In this role, Claire is res… Read full bio

Alek Misev

Head of Property, Aware Super

Alek commenced with Aware Super in January 2015 and has over 20 years’ experience in finance and investment management. In his role as Head of Property he is overseeing Aware Super’s property strategy and team locally and globally. Alek also sits on… Read full bio

Toby Mitchenall

Senior Editor, ESG & Sustainability​, New Private Markets, PEI Group

Toby Mitchenall has been covering private markets for 15 years; his current focus is on ESG, sustainability and impact investing. Toby joined PEI Group in London in 2008 to report on capital flows in European private equity for Private Equity Interna… Read full bio

Dirk Paelinck

Chairman, European PropTech Association

In 2018 Dirk Paelinck founded Workero, a digital service provider organizing Coworkings within companies who want to monetize their underused workspaces and to attract innovating business partners. The same year he started organizing, with Finnova Fo… Read full bio

Rebecca Pearce

Co-Funder and Director, Territorio

Rebecca is the co-founder of TERRITORIO, an independent consultancy that provides a multidimensional approach to creating better and more sustainable urban places. She trained as an architect and has a masters in human resource management, providing… Read full bio

Hassan Sabir

Finance & ESG Director, EPRA

Hassan graduated with a LLB from Queen Mary, University of London and holds an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. He has 18 years of work experience in finance, ESG & strategy including 7 years in the listed real estate… Read full bio

Kate Sandle

Director of Sustainability, Newcore Capital

Kate is the Director of Sustainability at Newcore, joining in April 2022. She is responsible for building on Newcore’s leadership in Real Estate, ensuring best practice is embedded throughout the business. Previously, Kate was Director of Programmes… Read full bio

Isabelle Scemama

Global Head of AXA IM Alts, Member of AXA IM Management Board, Member of the Board of Directors of EPRA

Isabelle Scemama is Global Head of AXA IM Alts. Isabelle oversees AXA IM’s €184bn alternative business unit, AXA IM Alts, which employs over 800 people located in 17 offices, serving the needs of more than 500 clients globally. AXA IM Alts is a globa… Read full bio

Nagadarsan Suresh

Managing Consultant, Guidehouse

Nagadarsan (Naga) is a Managing Consultant at Guidehouse, with 13+ years of international experience spanning Africa, India, and the UK, in strategy, consulting, product management and marketing positions. He currently manages various sustainability… Read full bio

Tracy Stroh

Head of Europe, Real Estate, GIC Real Estate

Tracy Stroh is Region Head of Real Estate (RE), Europe at GIC. In this role, Tracy is responsible for GIC RE’s real estate equity and debt investment activities. She is a voting member of GIC RE’s Global Investment Committee and is an active member o… Read full bio

Derk Welling

Senior Responsible Investment and Governance Manager- Real Estate investments, APG Asset Management

Derk Welling is Senior Responsible Investment & Governance specialist at APG Asset Management, focusing on real estate and infrastructure investments. He is a member of the GRESB Real Estate Advisory Board and also a member of the INREV Sustainab… Read full bio

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Download 2024 agenda to see how asset owners look to reduce carbon emissions from their portfolio, and how sustainability consultants and technology innovators play an integral role on the road to a net-zero future.

Day 1
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Agenda

PERE Decarb Forum - Monday 15th

10:00 - 11:00

Networking breakfast

Plenary
11:00 - 11:10

Welcome and opening remarks

11:10 - 11:50

Keynote interview: Safeguarding the future

Isabelle Scemama, Tracy Stroh

Investment giant AXA IM Alts speaks with private real estate’s largest capital allocator, GIC, about investing responsibly, driving climate action, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of the world we live in. Learn how one of the world’s leading asset managers invests in line with a 1.5˚C goal and hear first-hand what investors expect of their fund managers.

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Isabelle Scemama

Global Head of AXA IM Alts, Member of AXA IM Management Board, Member of the Board of Directors of EPRA

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Tracy Stroh

Head of Europe, Real Estate, GIC Real Estate

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11:50 - 12:30

Keynote panel: State of play: Net-zero in the global setting

Toby Mitchenall, Susanne Eickermann-Riepe, Michele Giddens OBE, Claire McIntyre, Alek Misev
  • Leaders in sustainability define net-zero across the built environment, identify opportunities and challenges in the transition, and discuss regulations on sustainable investing
  • How can the industry limit the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees? And whose responsibility is that, exactly?
  • Institutional investors’ key role on the journey to a low-carbon future
  • Key outcomes, takeaways and what has been achieved in the past 12 months
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Toby Mitchenall

Senior Editor, ESG & Sustainability​, New Private Markets, PEI Group

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Susanne Eickermann-Riepe

Chair, RICS European World Regional Board

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Michele Giddens OBE

Co-founder & Co-CEO, Bridges Fund Management

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Claire McIntyre

Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Affairs, Oxford Properties Group

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Alek Misev

Head of Property, Aware Super

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12:30 - 13:10

Panel: Decarbonizing Europe – leading asset managers’ net-zero strategies

Derk Welling
  • How are sustainability considerations prioritized differently among European countries?
  • How do European regulations affect investment strategies?
  • Driving better long-term financial performance with sustainability initiatives
  • Who bears the cost of the net-zero transition and how does it affect returns?
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Derk Welling

Senior Responsible Investment & Governance Specialist, APG Asset Management

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13:10 - 14:10

Networking lunch

Plenary
14:10 - 14:30

Presentation: Decarbonized and resilient real estate: how to mitigate physical and transition risk

Sven Bienert

Current regulations and changing market expectations will result in obsolescence of assets that no longer meet the new energy and technical requirements. The CRREM initiative enables investors and asset managers to implement structured decarbonization of their real estate portfolios.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sven Bienert, Director Competence Center of Sustainable Real Estate, International Real Estate Business School, University of Regernsburg

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Sven Bienert

Director, Competence Center of Sustainable Real Estate, University of Regensburg and Project Lead, Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor (CRREM)

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14:30 - 15:10

Panel: How do you solve a problem like embodied carbon

Hassan Sabir, Erik Landry, Rebecca Pearce
  • Comparing different sources of building materials to decarbonize the supply chains, other strategies to reduce embodied carbon
  • Collecting and tracking embodied carbon data, and what to do with it
  • Demolishing vs retrofitting stranded assets
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Hassan Sabir

Finance & ESG Director, EPRA

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Erik Landry

Director, Climate Change, GRESB

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Rebecca Pearce

Co-Funder and Director, Territorio

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15:10 - 15:50

Panel: Financing the green transition

Öykü Kurtoglu, Georgia Dunne
  • Debt managers and institutions’ plans for financing the green transition
  • How banks are incorporating climate and environmental risks into their processes
  • Green financial instruments for businesses – what works best for real estate?
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Öykü Kurtoglu

Head of Sustainability & ESG, PAREF

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Georgia Dunne

Director, NatWest

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15:50 - 16:15

Networking coffee break

Plenary
16:15 - 16:35

Presentation: European regulations and innovations on decarbonization

Dirk Paelinck
  • Spotlight on the EU Geen Deal of the European Commission, the impact of current and upcoming regulations, and a look at greenwashing in real estate
  • A comprehensive review of current and future proptech innovations focused on decarbonizing the real estate industry
  • Challenges when implementing new technologies
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Dirk Paelinck

Chairman, European PropTech Association

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16:35 - 17:15

Panel: What is in your toolbox – harnessing technological innovation to accelerate to net zero

Hannah Helmke
  • Use of digitalization to enable the flow of critical information across all life-cycle stages of projects (planning, design, construction, use, and end of life)
  • Technological innovations to support the green transition of new construction – how can we speed up bringing technology solutions to market?
  • How can engaging the right stakeholders and building technology partnerships help drive a companies’ innovation and strategy
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Hannah Helmke

Founder & CEO, right. based on science

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17:15 - 18:15

End of day and networking cocktails