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Grosvenor Group Sustainability Director Tor Burrows: ‘You can make money by doing the right thing’

“Whether you call it a green premium or a brown discount, the buildings with the top rents have definitely got the top sustainability credentials."
Melodie Michel
Grosvenor Group Sustainability Director Tor Burrows
Grosvenor Group Sustainability Director Tor Burrows

Before taking the helm of Grosvenor Group’s sustainability strategy in 2023, Tor Burrows spent a decade on its commercial team – and she’s confident that profits and sustainability go hand in hand.

“My passion is businesses being a force for good. You can have policy and legislation, you can have philanthropy: they're all much needed and amazing, but to really accelerate progress and change, you need businesses. You need a commercial case,” she tells CSO Futures.

“With my commercial background, I find it so exciting that you can make money by doing the right thing.”

Grosvenor Group’s latest results suggest that the diversified property organisation has found this commercial case: in 2024, profits were up across all of the group’s individual businesses, which include property, food and agtech, and rural estates.

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