ESG OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY
INTRODUCTION
ENVIRONMENTAL
SOCIAL
GOVERNANCE
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Industry Coordination and Leadership Roles ESRT actively engages in a host of industry organizations, working groups, partnerships, and initiatives to gather and share information that will shape ESG-related industry standards and government policy. ESRT’s Chairman, President, and CEO is the Chair of the Real Estate Roundtable’s Sustainability Policy Advisory Committee (RER SPAC), has served on the New York City Climate Mobilization Act LL97 Advisory Board, and has co-chaired the Advisory Board’s Commercial Buildings Working Group. Our Director and SVP of Energy, Sustainability, and ESG serves on Mayor Eric Adams’ New York City Sustainability Advisory Board, the REBNY Sustainability Committee, Nareit Real Estate Sustainability Committee, Urban Green Board of Directors, and RER SPAC and has served a maximum term on the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) IEQ Technical Advisory Group and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Steering Committee. Our participation in the NYSERDA Empire Building Challenge, which supports dialogue between real estate, engineering, and technology providers to identify and implement solutions that reduce GHG emissions in high-rise buildings, resulted in the receipt of one of four $5 million grants to be used toward strategic pilot projects in January 2022. ESRT’s pilot projects will focus on building management system (BMS) upgrades and optimization, energy recovery, steam reduction, and partial electrification through water and air source heat pumps and conversion to air source domestic hot water.
“ These partnerships between technology innovators and the state’s real estate leaders will advance scalable decarbonization solutions that reduce emissions from high-rise buildings while growing the clean energy economy.
Doreen M. Harris NYSERDA President and CEO
EMPIRE STATE REALTY TRUST: 2022 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
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