Environment: Internal Programs

LaSalle Investment Management

Looking Forward

LaSalle Investment Management, our global real estate investment management business, has as its first responsibility to clients delivering superior investment performance. In alignment with that objective, we embrace the opportunity to be a leader in sustainable property investment. Over the mid-to-long term, sustainable assets are likely to reflect cap rate differentials affecting value while also achieving higher success rates of attracting and retaining tenants, and LaSalle intends to stay in front of the market in this area.

Sustainability Task Force

LaSalle has established a Sustainability Task Force, which is led by LaSalle’s Chairman and comprised of members from all regions of the world. Since its creation, the task force has undertaken activities in four areas: new investments, existing investments, training and LaSalle facilities and operations.

As part of its global work plan, LaSalle's Sustainability Task Force has identified four sustainability objectives as the strategic focus of the task force's North American, European, and Asia Pacific regional efforts in 2009 and 2010. The four Global Sustainability Objectives (S4) are as follows:

§        S1: Energy and Carbon Reduction

§        S2: Sustainable Operations

§        S3: Benchmarking and Certifications

§        S4: Thought Leadership

Within each region, task force members have been asked to develop best practices and policies for LaSalle-managed assets which are consistent with these four objectives and are aimed at continuous, incremental sustainability improvements over time.