Tor Burrows has been appointed as group sustainability director to lead Grosvenor’s global sustainability strategy across all its international property, food & agtech and rural estates businesses.
This includes overseeing the organisation’s recently announced global carbon commitment to reduce emissions in line with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees.
Burrows will also continue as executive director of sustainability in Grosvenor Property UK, overseeing the strategy and delivery of the business’ ambitious environmental and social sustainability goals.
Mark Preston, executive trustee and chief executive, Grosvenor commented: 'We’ve committed to pursuing carbon reduction targets, aligned with limiting global warming to 1.5°c.
'Having set the strategy and established such a successful sustainability programme within our UK property business, Tor’s expertise will be invaluable in ensuring that we continue to turn our sustainability ambitions into action and make progress across every element of our organisation globally.'
In her expanded role, Burrows will build on Grosvenor’s progress in advancing sustainability and on its mission to reduce carbon emissions by decarbonising property holdings; investing in businesses and technologies able to disrupt the food industry’s carbon intensive practices; and to preserve, restore and enhance rural environments.
Recent highlights in Grosvenor’s environmental sustainability journey include achieving a 24% reduction in emissions across all scopes between 2020 and 2021 within Grosvenor’s UK property business, which is on course to reduce emissions by 90% by 2040.
The firm has also completed over 600,000 ft2 of retrofits in Grosvenor’s historic London portfolio as part of a £90 mln commitment to make properties more energy efficient, and planted over 500,000 trees in the UK over the past four years.
To support the sustainability strategy, Ed Green has been promoted to sustainability director for Grosvenor’s UK property business and will be responsible for leading its social impact and sustainability team.
Green previously co-led the delivery of the alternative investment strategy within the sustainability team and led the project to re-design Grosvenor Square into a biodiverse urban garden.
