CBRE acquires Singapore-based sustainability advisory firm Paia Consulting
Anshuman Magazine, CBRE consultatory division chief executive officer, India, Southeast Asia, Middle East, and Africa, says the procurement will certainly have an influence throughout the APAC region. “The higher level of recognition and enthusiasm in sustainability is growing among services, and improving laws will certainly give a catalyst for them to develop sustainability strategies and to demonstrate progression on their execution.”
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Carrie Johnson started Paia Consulting and is its starting executive. She has more than 20 years of knowledge in sustainability technique, reporting, and environmental matters. Corrado Forcellati, Paia Consulting’s supervising executive from 2021, assists firms in Singapore and Southeast Asia incorporate sustainability within their company procedures.
David Fogarty, that has led CBRE’s ESG Consulting and Sustainability Services team in Asia ever since 2022, will certainly direct the extended crew at Paia from CBRE.
On August 1, CBRE introduced that it has already gotten Paia Consulting, a Singapore-based sustainability consultatory company. The procurement is side of the New York Stock Exchange-listed global real estate services company’s development of its sustainability advising service in Asia Pacific.
In August 2023, Keppel employed Bennett Wong, former primary professional at Paia Consulting, to become its team sustainability top administrator. Wong left in July to join professional services firm RSM.
Supporting the procurement, the firm will be relabelled Paia from CBRE, and the employee will be integrated with CBRE’s presenting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) consulting and sustainability programs team. Johnson will be the top specialist following the combined entity, whilst Forcellati will be the new director of customer sustainability technique and services.
Moray Armstrong, handling supervisor of CBRE Singapore, says the intro of Paia’s features will put CBRE at the leading edge of ESG advisory in Singapore and across Asia Pacific. “Our specialists will partner with customers on reporting, education, conformity, benchmarking, establishing, and implementing ESG strategies. CBRE will positively impact the built setting.”
In June, United Overseas Bank and Enterprise Singapore launched a sustainability advising program for SMEs, in collaboration with Paia Consulting, CDP, Convene ESG, M1, PwC Singapore and TÜV SÜD.
