14:30 - 16:15

Rodney Schwartz (United Kingdom)
Chief Executive Officer - ClearlySo

Ritu Kumar (United Kingdom)
Senior Advisor, Environment, Social and Governance - Actis

Investing in Green Real Estate: An Emerging Markets Perspective

The presentation will cover three main aspects:
-- Green real estate in emerging markets: a challenge or an opportunity?
-- Green, safe and ethical: Actis's investment strategy and approach to real estate development, illustrated with examples;
-- Green buildings in tropical Africa: a preview of a pioneering and collaborative initiative.

Sethawat Srivirote (Thailand)
Director of Sustainability Development - Magnolia Quality Development Corp. Ltd.

Analyses and Reflections from a Leading Thai Real Estate Developer / Green Design Firm Towards Sustainability Development

• Why Sustainability Development? : The Importance of Building Sector and Opportunities

• What can we do? : Role of Real Estate Developer and Design Firm

• The Future Outlook : Due to limited understanding and the concern about cost, many developers are still reluctant and uncertain concerning pursuit of sustainability in their projects. To improve the momentum of sustainable practice in the industry, actions should be directed towards improving this knowledge at all levels of developers. Being a developer and design firm, how to drive the sustainable living way by our new launching projects to customers and sharing with people.

Jonathan F.P. Rose (United States of America)
President - Jonathan Rose Companies LLC

Responsible Property Investing to Generate Environmental, Social And Economic Returns

In 2005, the Rose Smart Growth fund was founded on the premise that a real estate investment strategy that focused on positive cash flow along with environmental and social goals could produce best of class returns in both rising and falling markets. Ever since, the fund has distributed returns to its investors every single quarter, proving its thesis that values based real estate investing can create solid economic value. In this presentation, Jonathan Rose, the funds sponsor will describe lessons learned and identify the most productive attributes of Responsible Property Investing.

Laura Jockers (United Kingdom)
Senior Sustainability Consultant - Jones Lang LaSalle

Green Real Estate Investment: Successful Strategies for a Changing Marketplace

This presentation will consider what the future of real estate investment holds, highlighting some of the key trends that are expected to drive further growth in green real estate, counterbalanced by an overview of the key challenges that the sector will need to overcome to make significant progress in this field. We will make reference to the growing body of evidence linking increased investment returns to green real estate assets; with a focus on emerging upside benefits which indicate that the business case for green real estate investment goes beyond downside risk management and future proofing. Finally, we will provide the audience with examples of successful approaches taken by leading investors and fund managers to incorporate green issues into their investment strategies. Jones Lang LaSalle is a financial and professional services firm specialising in real estate services and investment management and employs over 30,000 people in approximately 750 locations worldwide. LaSalle Investment Management, a member of the Jones Lang LaSalle group, is also one of the world’s largest and most diversified real estate investment management firms, with approximately $40 billion of assets under management. Our award-winning sustainability practice has over 12 years experience of developing green real estate strategies for a wide range of property owners and managers worldwide. A number of our key clients have become recognised as sustainability leaders – receiving prestigious awards and outperforming industry benchmarks for their market leading sustainability strategies and resultant performance improvements.