Karteria Partners Launch - Press Release
- Karteria Partners
- Jan 5
- 3 min read
Karteria Partners Launches to Bridge Critical ESG and Climate Risk Capability Gaps in Real Asset Investment
The new advisory coalition offers systemic investment resilience and sustainability solutions for global real asset investors.
London, January 2026 – Karteria Partners officially launches this month to address one of the most pressing challenges facing the real estate and infrastructure sectors: the erosion of in-house expertise in sustainability, climate risk, and investment resilience. Founded by industry leaders Philippa Gill and Meike Borchers,
Karteria Partners offers a practical, systemic advisory model designed to rebuild capabilities essential for securing capital, protecting value, and navigating regulatory complexity.
A Market at a Turning Point
After three years of stagnated investment and restructuring, the real estate industry faces unprecedented operational and financial risk. Lenders and insurers now demand credible resilience and adaptation strategies, while investors prioritise performance and value protection over ESG branding. Yet internal teams have compressed, senior roles have disappeared, and expensive digital programmes often fail to deliver due to lack of operational grounding.
Why a New Approach Is Needed
Recent market analyses show that operationally intensive sectors such as data centres, new energy infrastructure, and student housing dominate investment priorities, while traditional sectors like offices and retail face structural challenges. At the same time global regulatory frameworks, including CSRD and SFDR, are being refined and capital providers are linking financing terms to demonstrable climate resilience. These shifts have created a tension between fiduciary & strategic ambitions and lack of senior advisory capability - a gap that Karteria Partners intends to close by providing integrated, technically robust solutions that align with investor and lender expectations.
Karteria’s Proposition
Karteria Partners provides fractional, interim, and strategic leadership, combining deep technical sustainability expertise with investment-grade governance and data architecture.
Services include:
Investment value protection: technical assessments, climate risk diagnostics, retrofit feasibility, and energy optimisation.
Capital access readiness: lender-aligned strategies, insurance viability assessments, and CSRD/SFDR-compliant reporting.
Digital and data modernisation: ESG data models, system integration, and AI readiness.
Fractional leadership: senior sustainability roles during transitions or growth phases.
Founding Partner Perspective
“Founding Karteria was the obvious next step in our journey. We believe there is a better way to deliver the built environment that creates systemic and long-term value for people, planet, and profit,” said Philippa Gill. “Our integrated approach combines technical depth with proven strategic insights, ensuring investors and operators can meet lender and insurer scrutiny while building resilience across the value chain.”
“After several years of cost pressure and restructuring, we are seeing a growing imbalance in the real asset sector: rising regulatory and investor expectations, a reduction in senior operational expertise, and an increasing reliance on poorly controlled AI-driven outputs” Meike Borchers commented. “Karteria Partners was established to address that imbalance
and associated risks We provide technically grounded ESG and climate-risk leadership to help investors protect value and make resilient, well-informed decisions.”
About Karteria Partners
Karteria Partners operates globally, supporting real asset investors, owners, and managers with advisory services that strengthen financial and operational foundations. Drawing on decades of experience across leading investment platforms and sustainability consultancies, the coalition is committed to closing the capability gap and enabling clients to thrive in a rapidly evolving market.
Karteria Partners is a marketing and branding platform and not a legal entity in its own right.
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