Sustainability

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Our sustainability strategy is focused on building sustainable businesses that are structurally optimised to exploit mega-trends globally. We deliver exceptional returns for our investors while using evidence-based KPIs to report our performance against a quantitative measurement framework.


We work with our portfolio companies to create or enhance their sustainability strategy.

SCP STRATEGY TO BUILD SUSTAINABLE BUSINESSES TARGETING MEGA-TRENDS

The world is changing driven by mega-trends of technology, decarbonisation and resource efficiency and healthcare markets. Many long-term trends are now accelerating providing a vision of how we live, how we work and what we want, and need, to consume. We target the SCP sectors as we believe we have the knowledge and experience to target a gap in the market to invest in large growth businesses with high exposure to these trends. We aim to build sustainable businesses that have a structural advantage by design.

We will target companies with a proven structural advantage, or create them through transformation and consolidation or the re-design of inefficient business models, all with a high dependency on better technology:

  • Exposure to strong long-term growth fundamentals
  • Future proof business models to mega-trends, regulation and government policies
  • High-resilience models with embedded sustainable operating practices
  • Attract exit appetite across strategic, PE and public markets

SCP’s QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO MEASURING ESG IMPACT

The goal of our ESG strategy is to achieve best-in-class performance in ESG performance and reporting when compared to our peer group by 2024 based on a third-party benchmarking of our strategy.

We have structurally integrated ESG performance into our firm’s “DNA” with a clear roadmap to deliver our strategy. The focus of our ESG strategy today is at a portfolio level, but as we grow, we have a clear roadmap to achieving our 2024 ambition: 

The goal of our ESG strategy is to achieve best-in-class performance in ESG performance and reporting when compared to our peer group by 2024 based on a third-party benchmarking of our strategy.

We have structurally integrated ESG performance into our firm’s “DNA” with a clear roadmap to deliver our strategy. The focus of our ESG strategy today is at a portfolio level, but as we grow, we have a clear roadmap to achieving our 2024 ambition: 

  • Proven inclusion of ESG into all areas of deal and portfolio review;
  • James Brooks, Founding Partner, leadership of ESG matters;
  • ESG Committee established to provide oversight across SCP and portfolio performance;
  • Partner compensation clearly linked to ESG performance and target delivery;
  • Clear D&I strategy articulated in our People Strategy plan;
  • Portfolio board agreement on well-defined portfolio company specific KPIs and targets;
  • All portfolio companies will produce published sustainability reports;
  • Use of best-in-class SaaS software for reporting and peer performance comparison; and 
  • SCP will publish its own ESG report by 2024.

From a regulatory perspective, the Fund is not regulated under SDFR; however, it will follow best practice from the guidance and align with SDFR Article 8 requirements. In addition, SCP’s ESG framework will be consistent with industry standards and SCP is a member of the following organisations: 

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A target list of SCP sector-specific KPIs provides a standard framework for target setting and portfolio-level reporting of performance. The topics have been identified utilising the MSCI materiality map and suggested KPIs from best practice referencing of SASB industry standards and are aligned with selected UN Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”). 

Consistent with SCP’s overall approach, we will use technology as the primary delivery tool for our ESG strategy.