Climate Change Data

Mongolia Growth Group Ltd.

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2019, 2020)

Reporting Period: 2019

Environmental Metrics

Social Achievements

  • Created a 3rd party agency business that produced approximately $97,000 of revenue during the second half of 2019 (14% of our revenue in Mongolia).

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Sub-par (negative) returns on capital.
  • Difficulty extracting capital from Mongolia.
  • Lethargic Mongolian economy.
  • Extreme financial strain on tenants due to government measures to combat Coronavirus.
  • Reduced liquidity in the market, particularly for larger property assets.
  • Poor performance of securities portfolio over the past eighteen months.
  • Inability to identify a business with positive cash flow for investment outside Mongolia.
  • Operating losses (excluding potential gains from our public securities portfolio) for the foreseeable future.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Dramatically reduced offering prices of assets to increase sales.
  • Aggressively marketed properties at attractive prices.
  • Repaid USD $500,000 of debt with a top-4 Mongolian bank.
  • Focus on selling non-core property assets to diversify the business and invest in something with economic returns.
  • Repurchased 107,500 shares under Normal Course Issuer Bid.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Period: 2020

Environmental Metrics

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns heavily impacted tenants' businesses, leading to reduced rental revenue and a halt in the third-party sales and leasing business.
  • Declining Mongolian economy.
  • Currency fluctuations (Mongolian Tögrög depreciation against the Canadian dollar).
  • Difficulty converting Mongolian Tögrög to US dollars.
  • Increased use of barter transactions in the Mongolian economy.
  • Potential for property assets to be confiscated by the government or stolen.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Offered discounts to tenants.
  • Focused on reducing costs in Mongolia and extending liquidity.
  • Sold non-core property assets to fund working capital needs and potential acquisitions.
  • Developed a data-analytics service (KEDM) to diversify revenue streams.
  • Invested in publicly traded securities as a liquid alternative to cash.
  • Continued to monitor and evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on property prices and the Mongolian economy.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities