Green Property Alliance

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Purpose

The Green Property Alliance is a committee of the Property Industry Alliance whose purpose is to stimulate industry-wide engagement relating to the sustainability challenges and opportunities that impact upon commercial property investment, development, management and occupation.

Membership

Membership of the Green Property Alliance comprises of members of the Property Industry Alliance, together with other membership organisations representing key stakeholders in the commercial built environment. Membership is by invitation from the PIA. The current list of members can be seen below.

Aims

Members of the GPA are committed to bringing the commercial property industry together to demonstrate sustainability leadership, add value and facilitate a cohesive approach to sustainability across the sector.

The specific aims of the GPA are to:

Provide collective industry leadership on sustainability where the interests of GPA members are aligned.
Tackle duplication of effort by providing a structure for members to share and disseminate knowledge across members of the GPA and the wider industry.
Encourage collaboration, enabling GPA members to:
- support and communicate the work of other GPA members;
- pro-actively contribute to the work of other GPA members where member interests are aligned; and
- identify any gaps and engage collectively to address them.
Advocate for greater consistency of key sustainability metrics and across reporting frameworks for commercial real estate.
Support industry-wide efforts to improve the provision, governance and transparency of sustainability data for commercial real estate.
Identify knowledge gaps and/or emerging issues, facilitating a co-ordinated approach to research where this would be beneficial to GPA members.
Providing clear, coherent and co-ordinated messaging to key audiences, including the Government, on policies and actions that would support greater progress on sustainability in commercial real estate.
Demonstrate to Government, other public sector bodies, members, media and, where appropriate, the wider public the initiatives being taken by the industry to improve its sustainability performance.
Provide a clear point of contact for other stakeholders seeking to engage with the commercial property sector on sustainability issues.