Real Estate & REITs · Real Estate Investment Trusts
← all sectorsREITs hold the physical assets they rent out — so PP&E and the leased Scope 3 categories (cat 8 + cat 13) dominate their carbon footprint. EVIC matters too because investors size REIT exposure by capital deployed, not revenue.
Where this sector sits globally
- Scope 3 · cat 13 (downstream leased)Tenant energy useTenant electricity, heating, cooling — typically 60-80% of the REIT's total carbon footprint.
- Scope 1 + 2Landlord-controlled energyCommon-area lighting, central plant, district heating, gas and grid electricity under landlord control.
- Scope 3 · cat 2 (capital goods)Embodied carbon (new build / refurb)Concrete, steel, glass in development pipelines and major refurbishments. Front-loaded — lock-in for decades.
- Scope 3 · cat 1Construction supply chainIf the REIT is a developer: contractors, materials, professional services for build-outs.
SBTi has a buildings-specific 1.5°C-aligned pathway. CRREM (Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor) sets operational decarbonisation benchmarks per asset type and country. GRESB is the de facto investor disclosure standard.
Sector benchmarks · headline intensities
Each strip shows where every firm in the cohort sits on one intensity axis. Lower is better — left of the strip is best, right is worst. Each peer dot tooltips its value and the year it came from. Financial denominators are converted to USD before computing so cross-currency comparisons are apples-to-apples.
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Asset intensity (full)
Companies · 12 firms
+ Add company| RVB ID | Company | Ticker | Subtype | HQ | Revenue | Operational | Economic | Asset | Asset (full) | Sources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RVBA-AVB | AVB | 162.58 | 2268.84 | — | 23.10 | — | SBTiCDPReport | ||||
| RVBA-BLND | BLND | 189.50 | 985.32 | 36.45 | 9769.37 | 8436.66 | SBTiCDPReport | ||||
| RVBA-BAM | BAM | — | — | — | — | — | SBTiCDPReport | ||||
| RVBA-CCI | CCI | 303.98 | — | — | 43.25 | — | SBTiCDPReport | ||||
| RVBA-DLN | DLN | 68.36 | 710.36 | — | 407.85 | — | SBTiCDPReport | ||||
| RVBA-EQIX | EQIX | 184.67 | 224.18 | 20.24 | 86.32 | — | SBTiCDPReport | ||||
| RVBA-LAND | LAND | 203.01 | 2172.43 | — | — | — | SBTiCDPReport | ||||
| RVBA-PLD | PLD | 824.30 | — | — | — | — | SBTiCDPReport | ||||
| RVBA-PSA | PSA | — | — | — | — | — | SBTiCDPReport | ||||
| RVBA-SGRO | SGRO | 4.88 | 22.99 | — | 88.51 | 9197.88 | SBTiCDPReport | ||||
| RVBA-SPG | SPG | 157.58 | 327.34 | 7.50 | 43.28 | — | SBTiCDPReport | ||||
| RVBA-WELL | WELL | 152.21 | 156.84 | 18.37 | 26.83 | — | SBTiCDPReport |
Reference carbon factors · Real Estate & REITs
Below sit every reference factor relevant to a real estate & reits firm. Use these as starting points when you need to estimate emissions for a category the cohort doesn't disclose, or to spot-check disclosed figures against the consensus range. Each value is anchored to the published source — click any source slug to open the citation.
No carbon-factor reference set built yet for Real Estate & REITs.
Sectors currently populated: management consultancy, cloud infrastructure, marketing & advertising, IT hardware laptops, agriculture (tea / dairy / eggs). To add a sector, map the procurement category inweb/src/lib/carbon-factors/procurement-to-industry.ts.