Sustainability, Climate and Impact

Building portfolios to align financial, natural capital, community and climate goals.

Investment Fund of the Year ESG Investing Awards 2021

Awarded February 2021, the only winner among more than 90 finalists in 17 investment fund categories. The award is not indicative of future performance. Quinbrook is not a paid subscriber to ESG Investing nor did it pay as a condition of eligibility. ESG Investing awards are made based on nominations by market participants, including Quinbrook, and assessed by a panel of independent judges comprising financial market professionals, academics and independent experts.

Climate Impact and Opportunities Report

We are proud to share our latest Climate Opportunity and Risk report with you, which outlines our approach to investing in the energy transition, driving impact through additionality and growth investments, and actively managing portfolio strategies and risks.

Read our latest report here

Our Awards

ESG Investing Awards 2021
Investment Fund of the Year

ESG Investing Awards 2021
Winner Best ESG Investment Fund:
Energy Transition

ESG Investing Awards 2021
Winner Best ESG Investment Fund:
Infrastructure

Driving Opportunity and ‘Best Practice’ Stewardship and Risk Management

As an investor and manager of low-carbon and renewable infrastructure and businesses, our primary mission is inherently aligned with achieving ambitious industrial and climate goals. Our commitment to sustainability, ethics, and responsible stewardship extends to our diverse stakeholder community and the numerous communities where our ventures operate.

We are acutely aware of the far-reaching impact our portfolio companies have on society. Through growth and new build investments, we can create and preserve jobs, enhance business transparency and governance, foster community engagement, promote team diversity, cultivate a corporate culture rooted in integrity and ethics, and seek to drive sustainable opportunities across Quinbrook’s managed portfolios.

Quinbrook firmly believes that our specialised focus on investments that facilitate the creation of new assets and businesses supporting a sustainable, equitable energy future positions us to safeguard and enrich the value of all forms of capital—human, environmental, and financial—for our investors and society at large.

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UN PRI Assessment 2021

The UN PRI is the world’s leading reporting project on responsible investment and annually evaluates investors’ integration of climate, sustainability, social impact and responsibility into investment practice.

Quinbrook is delighted to have received the following scores in its 2021 Assessment across both its assessed categories:

Direct – Infrastructure: 100%, ★★★★★
Investment & Stewardship Policy: 100%, ★★★★★

With a total of 3,097 firms reporting, the average median score for responding companies across all categories was 47% according to the publicly available results published by UN PRI. The median score for Investment & Stewardship Policy was 60% and the median for Direct Infrastructure was 77%.

These results highlight Quinbrook’s rigorous integration of ESG into its active investment and management decision-making, and its ongoing commitment to investing responsibly to build a cleaner, more resilient energy landscape.

Quinbrook’s full Assessment and Transparency reports from the UN PRI are available to download.

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Environmental stewardship

Climate and emissions reduction are central to Quinbrook’s purpose and investment thesis, and to meeting the 2015 Paris Agreement commitments to “holding the increase in the global average temperature to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels”. Renewable energy also has a much broader responsibility to minimize environmental harm and we endeavour to support the environments in which our assets reside. Initiatives have included the creation of co-located pollinator habitats, supporting local farmers; recycling and reuse of assets such as batteries and solar panels to minimize life cycle footprint; stopping use of native timber and food sources land for biomass; and understanding water stress and minimizing water use through better design, such as data centers with recycled water supply.

Jobs, community impact and supporting local economic recovery

Job creation, job displacement and retraining, community health and wellbeing, human rights and modern slavery are all central considerations in the growth of long-term infrastructure development. By investing in new build assets, Quinbrook is able to create new jobs, support areas that may have suffered job displacement and can drive better environmental justice, provide better affordability, security and reliability of energy and work with communities who are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Beyond our impact on our immediate communities, Quinbrook is focused on our supply chains, seeking to use our influence to cease modern slavery, a complex issue across many industries and regions today.

Active management, alignment and improved governance

Through active governance control, continuous engagement with our investee business management teams and consistently applied investment processes, we seek to achieve enduring alignment in the pursuit of positive climate, environmental, social and governance impacts from our investing activities. We believe that the integration of responsible investment and impact practices and commitments into our own investment processes and ongoing asset management is fundamental to both long-term value creation and value protection. This commitment equips us to anticipate, plan for and avoid certain risks whilst also identifying opportunities to create lasting value through improved resilience of essential infrastructure and related businesses. Through investee board representation Quinbrook is able drive more robust governance measures and implement key initiatives to drive broader climate, sustainability and impact goals.

Dedicated Sustainable Investment and Impact Team

Sustainable and Responsible Investment champions across our Senior Leadership, Investment, Finance and Compliance Teams

Anne Foster

SENIOR DIRECTOR & GLOBAL HEAD OF ESG

With over 15 years’ experience across investment, financial advisory, asset management and investing banking for infrastructure and global energy, Ms. Foster is responsible for…

David Scaysbrook

CO-FOUNDER, MANAGING PARTNER

With over 28 years’ experience in energy and renewables infrastructure, Mr. Scaysbrook is responsible for…

Daniel Feeney

SENIOR ANALYST

With 3 years’ experience in asset management, Mr. Feeney is responsible for…

Laila Tamraz

ANALYST

With 2 years’ experience in the global energy sector, Miss. Tamraz is responsible for…

United Nations Targets

The United Nations has highlighted climate change mitigation as one of its most important objectives of its Sustainable Develompent Goals. These align with the core of Quinbrook’s overall investment strategy. Moreover, Quinbrook works to quantifiably and, at scale, support many other UN SDG targets.

Through our commitment to global climate and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals we seek to achieve enduring impact, capital protection and risk management through active management and the pursuit of positive climate, environmental, social and governance goals.

Stewardship, Climate and Impact

We believe better stewardship, climate, sustainability risk and impact practices are inherently tied to capital protection and growth for the long term.