Climate Change Data

Tikehau Capital and its subsidiaries

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

Reporting Period: 2019

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:1846 tCO2e

ESG Focus Areas

  • Climate change
  • Economic development, talent & diversity
  • Customer & stakeholder relations
  • Governance & business ethics

Environmental Achievements

  • 1,846 tons of CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) in 2019 – scopes 1, 2 & 3 (upstream) – offsetting residual emissions through the Borneo-based Katingan Forest conservation programme
  • GreenYellow’s renewable energy and energy efficiency projects prevented the emission of 200,000 tCO2e

Social Achievements

  • 57 net jobs created in 2019 at Tikehau Capital and its subsidiaries
  • 44% of permanent workforce women
  • Support for 10+ projects and charities

Governance Achievements

  • Updated Code of Business Ethics in 2019
  • Launching a mandatory training programme focused on preventing corruption and influence peddling in 2020
  • ESG integration into investment decisions across all business lines

Climate Goals & Targets

Medium-term Goals:
  • Develop an impact and thematic investment platform dedicated to climate change, social inclusion, innovation and healthcare
Short-term Goals:
  • Update responsible investment policy to include impact & climate considerations
  • Reinforce impact measurement tools and expand impact assessment across certain private equity and private debt funds
  • Enhance training efforts on impact investing across the investment teams

Environmental Challenges

  • Climate-related risks (physical and transition risks) across various portfolio companies
  • Need to further integrate impact measurement into investment strategies
Mitigation Strategies
  • Pilot climate-risk assessment for NOVO 2018 corporate lending fund
  • Developing an impact and thematic investment platform focused on climate change, social inclusion, innovation, and healthcare
  • Updating responsible investment policy to include impact & climate considerations
  • Reinforcing impact measurement tools

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement
  • Group Responsible Purchasing Charter

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Sea level rise and floods
  • Stricter energy efficiency standards for buildings
  • Potential energy price increases
  • Water stress
  • Wildfire
  • Heatwaves
Transition Risks
  • Regulatory changes
  • Market shifts
Opportunities
  • Energy efficiency investments
  • Renewable energy investments
  • Low-carbon mobility investments

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI, SASB, TCFD

Certifications: LuxFLAG ESG label

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Goal 7
  • Goal 12
  • Goal 13

Investments in renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainable cities, and healthcare

Awards & Recognition

  • Sofidy named Best Asset Manager for the 17th consecutive year

Reporting Period: 2020

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Environment
  • Social
  • Governance

Environmental Achievements

  • Launched a Private Equity fund dedicated to the energy transition, T2 Energy Transition Fund, in partnership with Total SA.
  • Launched an impact lending fund, aiming to offer more favourable credit terms to companies based on their ESG performance.

Social Achievements

  • Share of women in the workforce 41%
  • Launched a fund offering a bespoke, multi-asset solution aimed at providing high net worth individuals seeking diversified exposure to European private markets.

Governance Achievements

  • Supervisory Board 50% composed of independent members.
  • ESG Committee with nine members, mostly senior and coming from various business lines and countries.

Climate Goals & Targets

Short-term Goals:
  • Reach over €35 billion in assets under management by 2022.
  • Generate over €100 million of fee-related earnings by 2022.

Environmental Challenges

  • Covid-19 pandemic impacting economies, financial markets, and supply chains.
  • Increased regulatory requirements and uncertainties.
  • Competition in the alternative asset management market.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Implemented measures to minimize the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on day-to-day activities and operating systems.
  • Strengthened the formalisation of its approach to sustainability risks.
  • Continued to invest its funds' capital by maintaining a disciplined and selective investment policy.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: UN PRI

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Goal 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy)
  • Goal 13 (Climate Action)

Investments in clean energy production, low-carbon mobility, and improved energy efficiency contribute to these goals.

Awards & Recognition

  • Private Equity Provider of the Year, alternatives by Private Equity Wire 2020
  • Private Debt Lender of the Year
  • Best European Private Debt provider
  • Best Debt Provider of the Year – Alternative
  • Private Debt Lender, Large Category
  • Private Debt Award from AIFI
  • Lender of the Year Europe by Private Debt Investors (PDI)
  • Best Newcomer with the Tikehau Private Debt Secondaries strategy by PDI
  • Best Debt Strategies
  • Excellence in ESG 2020 by the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association
  • Lender of the Year, Europe by Private Debt Investor Awards 2020
  • Global Newcomer for the private debt secondary team by Private Debt Investor Awards 2020

Reporting Period: 2021

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Climate & Biodiversity
  • Innovation, Digitalisation & Cybersecurity
  • Economic Development & Social Inclusion
  • Health

Environmental Achievements

  • >250 ktCO2e in emissions avoided by portfolio companies in 2021
  • Energy saved in 2021 >130 GWh
  • Installed (excl. >11 GW pipeline) Electric powertrains produced in 2021 >1.5 GW
  • 1.6m low carbon mobility enablers

Social Achievements

  • Launched Belgian Recovery private debt fund to strengthen the solvency of Belgian companies
  • Launched “Obligations Relance” Investment Fund to strengthen the financial position of French SMEs
  • Launched Impact Lending Strategy with ESG ratchets for SMEs and midcaps
  • Supported various philanthropic initiatives in youth development, health research, and community support

Governance Achievements

  • 70% of assets under management (excluding real assets) classified under Articles 8 and 9 of SFDR
  • More than 80% of Private Equity investments classified under Articles 8 and 9 of SFDR
  • Established a Climate Action Centre to coordinate climate strategy
  • Implemented ESG ratchets in unitranche and corporate lending

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Contribute to global carbon neutrality (committed to Net Zero Asset Managers initiative)
Medium-term Goals:
  • Manage at least €5 billion in assets under management dedicated to climate and biodiversity by 2025
  • Reach > €65 billion in assets under management by 2026
  • Generate > €250 million in fee-related earnings by 2026
  • Generate financial profitability of around 15% on average over 2022-2026
Short-term Goals:
  • Increase the proportion of women among Managing Directors and Executive Directors to 26% by end of 2023, 28% by end of 2025, and 30% by end of 2027

Environmental Challenges

  • Climate change and biodiversity loss
  • Cybersecurity threats
  • Need to accelerate the transition to a sustainable economy
  • ESG data limitations for Scope 3 emissions
Mitigation Strategies
  • Developed impact investment platform focusing on climate, biodiversity, and social inclusion
  • Launched several impact funds dedicated to decarbonization and sustainable investments
  • Implemented Sustainability by Design approach across investments
  • Established partnerships with various organizations to promote sustainability and address social challenges
  • Working on improving Scope 3 emission data using ISS and S&P Trucost data

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Rising sea levels
  • Extreme weather events
Transition Risks
  • Regulatory changes
  • Technological changes
  • Market shifts
Opportunities
  • Investments in energy transition, renewable energy, and energy efficiency

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: SFDR, TCFD, UN SDGs, Paris Agreement, International Energy Agency's net zero roadmap, IPCC guidance, European taxonomy for sustainable activities

Awards & Recognition

  • Responsible investor of the year, Europe (2022)

Reporting Period: 2022

Environmental Metrics

Carbon Intensity:884 tCO2e scope 1-2-3 per €m revenues (Fund), 1976 (Universe)

ESG Focus Areas

  • Carbon efficiency
  • Circular economy
  • Environmental and social safeguards
  • UN Global Compact and OECD guidelines
  • ESG risk management

Environmental Achievements

  • Achieved a carbon intensity (scope 1, 2, 3, per million euro of revenues) lower than the investment universe. Portfolio coverage was at least 90% of assets.
  • Engaged with 29 companies to discuss environmental topics and areas for improvement (47% of portfolio).

Social Achievements

  • Promotes minimum environmental and social safeguards through exclusion criteria and SRI criteria.
  • Score on human and labor rights controversies lower than the investment universe (coverage rate of at least 70% of assets).

Governance Achievements

  • Promotes business activities in accordance with the UN Global Compact and OECD guidelines.
  • Limits investments in companies with material ESG risk.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Sustainability risks (although broadly diversified, it is not anticipated that any single Sustainability Risk will drive a material negative financial impact on the value of the Sub-Fund).
Mitigation Strategies
  • Broad diversification of the fund.
  • Engagement with management and governance bodies of certain issuers to support and accelerate sustainability measures.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: SFDR Article 8, UN Global Compact, OECD guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

Reporting Period: 2023

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Decarbonisation
  • Nature and biodiversity
  • Cybersecurity
  • Resilient cities
  • Regenerative agriculture

Environmental Achievements

  • Finalised commitments under the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative (managing close to 40% of AuM in line with net zero goal).
  • Successfully placed a new €300 million sustainable bond issue.
  • 78% of the Group’s financing had an ESG component.

Social Achievements

  • Launched the Tikehau Capital Foundation.
  • Focus on social issues and diversity with portfolio companies, particularly in private equity, private debt, and real estate.
  • 44% of permanent staff are women; 24% of managing directors and executive directors are women.

Governance Achievements

  • 20% of employees’ variable compensation is linked to ESG objectives.
  • A proportion of carried interest is linked to ESG criteria for impact funds.
  • 66% of private debt financed with an ESG ratchet in 2023.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Commitment to support the goal of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner.
Medium-term Goals:
  • Target of 39% of assets under management to be net zero by 2050.
Short-term Goals:
  • Strengthen climate transition plan in connection with the EU’s CSRD.
  • Address biodiversity challenges in data collection, focusing on real estate and regenerative agriculture.

Environmental Challenges

  • Persistent inflation, tighter financing conditions, and increasingly stringent regulation.
  • High valuations for both listed and unlisted equities.
  • Staggering levels of global debt coupled with a slowdown in global growth (liquidity crisis).
  • Rising financing, capital, and insurance costs for companies with poor sustainable development performance.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Focus on investment discipline, impact, and sustainable value creation.
  • Cautious and disciplined approach to investing, strong alignment of interests with investor-clients.
  • High selectivity in investments.
  • Positioning in private markets, entrepreneurial DNA, strong balance sheet supporting accelerated growth.
  • Focus on megatrends such as cybersecurity, energy transition, regenerative agriculture, real estate asset transformation, and US infrastructure.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Opportunities
  • Development of energy-efficient products
  • Investment in decarbonisation and renewable energy

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: SFDR, TCFD, SASB

Awards & Recognition

  • 2023 ESG Industry Top Rated company by Sustainalytics (top 4% of best performers)
  • Private Debt Lender Award (Large Cap) by Private Equity Magazine’s annual Grands Prix 2023 (8th consecutive year)
  • Asset Manager of the Year (Large category) by Environmental Finance IMPACT Awards 2023
  • Best ESG Investment Fund: Energy Transition by ESG Investment Awards 2024
  • Impact Project / Investment of the Year by ESG Investment Awards 2024
  • Second place in EMEA Firm of the Year in Italy by PEI Awards 2023
  • IJInvestor Restructure of the Year – North America award by IJGlobal’s IJInvestor Awards Americas 2023
  • Platinum Award for Best Office REIT (Singapore) and Gold Award for Best Investor Relations by Asia Pacific Best of the Breeds REITs Awards 2023
  • Three awards at the 30th edition of the Palmarès des Fournisseurs by Gestion de Fortune magazine, including “Company of the Year”

Reporting Period: 2024

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Climate Change
  • Biodiversity
  • ESG
  • Governance
  • Social

Environmental Achievements

  • Finalized Net Zero Asset Manager (NZAM) objectives in March 2023, committing to managing nearly 40% of assets under management in line with the global target of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.
  • Implemented a revised fossil fuel exclusion policy in early 2023 restricting new direct financing of fossil fuel-dedicated projects and related infrastructure globally, as well as new direct investments in companies with significant exposure to fossil fuels.
  • Aims to manage €5 billion in assets by 2025 earmarked for climate and biodiversity.

Social Achievements

  • Enhancement of the Group’s Sustainability-themed and Impact platform.
  • Reinforcement of ESG capabilities through the integration of a sustainability risk manager in 2023, the establishment of an ESG data IT platform, and the formalisation of methodological guides and of a RACI responsibility matrix with the investment and support teams.
  • Inclusion of ESG considerations in the Group’s loans and bonds.
  • Launched Tikehau Sustainability University in December 2022 with a dedicated mobile application for continuous training.

Governance Achievements

  • Strong involvement across all levels of seniority in the roll-out of the ESG and Climate policies.
  • Supervisory Board reviews the ESG and CSR strategy regularly.
  • Creation of a Sustainable Bond Allocation Committee in March 2021 and a Climate Action Centre in April 2021.
  • Updated Group's governance of sustainability issues to give it a medium-term strategic push and set up operational working groups by business line.
  • Establishment of an Impact Committee for impact funds.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Net zero emissions by 2050 (40% of AUM managed in line with this goal).
Medium-term Goals:
  • Interim targets for 2030 for managing assets in line with net zero, developed using methodologies from Net Zero Investment Framework (NZIF) and Science Based Targets (SBT) initiative.
Short-term Goals:
  • Manage €5 billion in assets by 2025 earmarked for climate and biodiversity.

Environmental Challenges

  • Limited data availability on Principal Adverse Impacts (PAI) for Private Equity and Private Debt investments in the pre-investment phase.
  • Managing climate and biodiversity-related risks in the portfolio.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Conducting assessments to identify impacts on nature and biodiversity where relevant and necessary.
  • Monitoring climate-related metrics of its investment portfolio in alignment with the PAI indicators defined by the SFDR and the TCFD.
  • Using the R4RE tool to assess the exposure of real estate assets to climate-related physical risks.
  • Commissioning an external expert to develop a sector-based screening tool to enhance climate-related transition and physical risk assessment.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Sustained increased temperatures
  • Sea level rise
  • Flooding
  • Fire
  • Droughts
  • Other weather calamities
Transition Risks
  • Regulatory risks
  • Technological risks
  • Market risks
  • Reputational risks
Opportunities
  • Investment opportunities in decarbonization and carbon sinks

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: SFDR, TCFD, UN PRI, SASB, European Taxonomy