Climate Change Data

Quadriga Capital

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2022)

Reporting Period: 2022

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:40,054 tCO2e
Renewable Energy Share:63%
Total Energy Consumption:246,623,581 kWh

ESG Focus Areas

  • Human Well-Being & Personal Growth
  • Preservation of our Environment
  • Sustainable Transformations

Environmental Achievements

  • Continued strengthening of the QC-Sustain approach
  • Successful verification as a Signatory to the Impact Principles (July 2023)
  • Improved QC-Sustain toolbox to include future EU CSRD requirements
  • Implementation of third-party software Reporting21
  • Joined ESMT Berlin’s Sustainable Business Roundtable (SBRT)
  • Sector-specific sustainability workshop for healthcare portfolio companies (early summer 2023)

Social Achievements

  • Strengthened the QC-Sustain team by appointing an ESG Coordinator
  • ESG Best Practice Honours award by SWEN Capital Partners
  • Selected as Real Deals Future 40 ESG Innovator
  • LR Health & Beauty published a stand-alone Sustainability Report

Governance Achievements

  • Revised QC-Sustain content, ESG and Impact target setting procedures
  • Improved internal requirements and growing regulatory demands to include all upcoming regulatory requirements from the EU CSRD

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Achieve net-zero emissions by 2050
Medium-term Goals:
  • Reduce GHG emissions across portfolio companies by 50% by 2030
Short-term Goals:
  • Revise portfolio-wide targets
  • Increase data quality and introduce GHG Scope 3 reporting
  • Include diversity policy in the QC-Sustain toolbox
  • Strengthen stewardship role

Environmental Challenges

  • Incomplete and inaccurate sustainability data from portfolio companies in 2022
  • Significant number of portfolio companies encountering similar sustainability challenges
  • Need to empower sustainability within portfolio companies beyond executive training
Mitigation Strategies
  • Consolidating knowledge within QC-Sustain Toolbox and providing support across the portfolio
  • Training initiatives in 2022 and 2023
  • Sector-specific sustainability workshops (e.g., healthcare)
  • Collaboration with Reporting21 for data collection

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: Operating Principles for Impact Management, SFDR Art. 8+

Third-party Assurance: BlueMark

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 3
  • SDG 6
  • SDG 7
  • SDG 8
  • SDG 9
  • SDG 12
  • SDG 13

The report mentions alignment with several SDGs, but lacks specific details on how initiatives contribute to each goal.

Awards & Recognition

  • SWEN Capital Partners ESG Best Practices Honours
  • Real Deals Future 40 ESG Innovator