ESG Impact

Building portfolios that align financial, environmental, social, governance 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.

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.

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

Seeking ‘Best Practice’ Stewardship and ESG Risk Mitigation

As an investor and manager of low carbon and renewables infrastructure and businesses, our core goal is inherently driven toward Net Zero Climate goals and building real asset investments that deliver enduring carbon emissions reduction. Our focus on sustainability, ethics and stewardship supports and extends well beyond this, to our broad stakeholder population and the many communities in which our businesses operate. We are conscious of the impacts our investees have on society at large, through job creation and preservation, improved business transparency and governance, greater community engagement, increased team diversity, promotion of a business culture supporting principled and ethical behavior and importantly, reduced environmental impacts from the daily operation of our assets.

Our Inaugural Stewardship Report comes at what we believe is a critical time for all asset managers to increase their ESG and stewardship activities and to accelerate our collective influence, innovation and positive impact. Quinbrook believes that through our specialist focus on investments that build new assets and businesses that support a sustainable, just transition and accelerated pathway to Net Zero, we are better able to protect and enhance the value of all capital – human, environmental and financial – for our investors and broader society.

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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 ESG 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 the recovery from COVID-19

During 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic forced many of us to reconsider and alter our habits and priorities amidst a growing awareness of the impacts climate change is having on our lives and livelihoods. 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 ESG 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 such as cybersecurity programs, hiring and diversity, executive pay alignment, and drive broader climate and ESG goals.

Dedicated ESG Team

ESG 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…

Pia Tapley

SABBATICAL

With over 14 years’ experience…

Lisa Engelen

VICE PRESIDENT

With 4 years’ experience in finance

Rachel Louie

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT

With over 13 years’ experience in clean and conventional energy projects and investments. Ms. Louie 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.