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**Does the lender take specific steps to achieve the sustainability objectives reported in LLE2?**
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## Assessment Instructions
Intent: What is the purpose of this indicator?
Indicate actions that participant takes to achieve sustainability objectives in LLE2. Participants must select actions that were in-place during the reporting period. Additional context on implementation and tracking actions must be included.
Input: How do I complete this indicator?
Select yes or no. If yes, select all applicable sub-options.
**Open text box:** Description provided should fully support each checkbox selected, along with the following elements:
1. Describe the connection between objectives and selected actions.
2. Describe the on-going monitoring process to track implementation.
State actions that participant takes to achieve sustainability objectives. These actions must be related to commercial real estate lending.
### Terminology
**Asset-level consumption data**
> Information regarding energy/water/waste use intensities and overall efficiency of an asset.
**External sustainability standard**
> Refers to third party guidance/standards that focuses on sustainability integration/management.
**Financing for property improvements**
> Refers to dedicated financing for borrower activities to alter/improve existing buildings. May include major renovation and retrofit.
**Impact analysis of new construction/major renovation**
> Process of identifying the potential consequence of new development and/or alterations to existing asset that affects more than 50 percent of the building floor area.
**Standalone sustainable lending policy**
> Policy or guidance document that outlines real estate lending criteria and includes sustainability-related metrics/factors.
**Sustainability commitment**
> Long and/or short term aims connected to specific metrics/impacts made by the lender.
**Sustainability profile**
> A report/scorecard that includes information about economic, environmental and governance performance and commitments of the borrower.
Validation: What evidence is required?
No evidence required. Only the 'Other' answer is manually validated.
#### **Other Answer**
State the action that participant takes to achieve sustainability objectives in LLE2. Ensure that the other answer provided is not a duplicate of a selected option above. It is possible to report multiple other answers. If multiple other answers are acceptable, only one will be counted towards scoring.
Validation Basics
## Scoring
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Scoring: How does GRESB score this indicator?
The scoring of this indicator is equal to the fraction assigned to the selected option, multiplied by the total score of the indicator.
**Other:** The 'Other' answer is manually validated and assigned a score, which is used as a multiplying factor, as per the table below:
| Validation status | Score |
| ----------------- | ----- |
| Accepted | 1/1 |
| Not Accepted | 0 |
| Duplicate | 0 |
**Open text box:** The open text box is not scored and is for reporting purposes only.
Scoring Basics
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