TD Cowen Insights: Lowering the Retail Carbon Footprint by Raising Circularity with RESET

A preeminent analyst and retail influencer - named by the National Retail Federation as one of the top people shaping the future of retail - Oliver Chen, CFA is a Managing Director and senior equity research analyst covering retail and luxury goods at TD Cowen.

In this podcast on Retail Visionaries, he interviews Raefer Wallis, Founder and CEO of the RESET Standard on;
“How retail companies manage different kinds of return (and risk) on invested capital.”

The first portion of the podcast lays the groundwork on carbon, circularity and health in real-estate for retail.

• Retail is one of the most carbon intensive sectors in commercial real-estate.

• Retail interiors need to be completely rethought.

• Greatest innovation? Learning to think in reverse.

For listeners in the financial sector, tune-in to minute 16 for introductory insights on:

• Quadruple accounting.

• Auditable sustainability results.

• Legislation vs. Regional Competitiveness vs. Consumer Demand

• US vs. EU vs. Asia, who’s leading? Where is the innovation happening?

• Luxury retail companies are now real-estate companies.

And our favorite:

• The best IT security people are also the best hackers.

• The best standard and rule makers are also the best rule breakers.

Click here to check the whole podcast.

About RESET

RESET is a data standard, accompanied by a set of assessment tools, created and managed by GIGA, to develop actionable, long-term strategies towards health and sustainability for the built environment. RESET focuses on creating a quantitative structure around embodied and operating data to generate opportunities for improvement and optimizations by combining the development of databases, continuous monitoring, and cloud software to increase the visibility of health and sustainability reporting and analytics in the built environment.

For more information about RESET, please visit: https://www.reset.build/.