Seminar 'Green Infrastructure & Sustainable Real Estate'
How and where can you make a real impact on sustainability within real assets? What are the biggest challenges in realising impact in infrastructure and real estate?
What is the impact of President Trump’s policies on climate targets for real assets? To what extent should climate ambitions be re-evaluated or adjusted? How relevant or appropriate are initiatives such as BREEAM and GRESB in this evolving context?
How to determine the impact of Green CAPEX (versus Green premium) on total return?
These and other topical questions were addressed during the seminar 'Green Infrastructure & Sustainable Real Estate: how to create Impact in Real Assets?’. The seminar took place on Thursday 12 June 2025 from 1 to 5 pm in Amsterdam.
The afternoon was chaired by Vincent van Bijleveld, Managing Director at Global Real Estate Engagement Network (GREEN), and Managing Consultant Sustainable Investing at Finance Ideas.
Several top speakers shared their vision with you, including:
- Peter van Apeldoorn, Senior Investment Specialist, Polestar Capital
- Sjoerd Berkhout, Portfolio Manager, a.s.r. real assets investment partners
- Stefany Burbano, Economist, PhD candidate, Maastricht University – MCRE
- Marco van der Geugten, Senior Portfolio Manager Infrastructure, MN
- Tijmen Janssen, Climate Risk Analyst, Ortec Finance
- Bas Jongerius, Senior Investment Specialist, Fund Manager, Polestar Capital
- Peter Koppers, Director Investment Management, Achmea Real Estate
- Paul Oremus, Managing Director NL and Fund Manager, CBRE Investment Management
- Andrea Palmer, Responsible Investment Lead, Global Real Estate Securities, PGGM
- Jai Patel, Managing Director, Co-Head, Real Estate Debt, ICG Real Estate
- Kimberly Pilling, Senior Director – Investment Relations, Nuveen
- Derk Welling, Senior Portfolio Manager Responsible Investments Real Estate, APG Asset Management