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OUR ESG APPROACH
OUR ESG APPROACH
Vauban Infrastructure Partners approach is to invest in essential infrastructures, with a25-years-Buy & Hold-strategy, providing positive impacts to local communities over the long term.
We believe that we have a shared responsibility as investors to build and maintain vital and sustainable infrastructure systems so that communities can thrive and create new opportunities for us all and the coming generations.
In 2015, we actively took part in the launch of the GRESB Infrastructure initiative. As a founding member, we are now an active participant at the Advisory Board level, being involved in the design of the assessment methodologies and processes.
Since then, we keep increasing our commitment to develop implementable solutions with sectorial stakeholders, through our involvement in several public initiatives, events or industrial researches, but also by supporting our asset operators in their journey and applying those principles at our own company level.
Our impact as responsible investor
Rated A+ by PRI
Founding member of Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) Infrastructure
Awarded "European ESG Coordinator of the Year" by IJGlobal (2020)
Our 4 priority commitments
Balanced and Effective Governance
We pay particular attention to a balanced and effective Governance, promoting an ambitious sustainability approach.
We have established an ESG committee with the day-to-day support of a dedicated ESG officer and ESG director, to develop and oversee ESG policies and procedures.
Holistic Vision of Investment
ESG-criteria are considered in decision-making across the entire investment cycle, and for each asset, with a proprietary methodology developed to assess ESG Risks & Opportunities against the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework.
Long-Term Horizon Consideration
We monitor material ESG issues to identify long-term Risks & Opportunities and actively engage our portfolio companies to build their sustainability plan and follow up on their objectives.
Transparency and Advocacy
In addition to reporting to LPs and relevant stakeholders on ESG, Vauban partners with asset operators and experts to develop transformative solutions at the sectors level
Our ESG journey
First ESG review of the existing portfolio
Founding member of the GRESB Infrastructure Assessment
First portfolio carbon footprint carried out
Signatory of
the UN PRI
Signatory of the France Invest Charter for Gender Parity
All funds classified as article 8 under SFDR
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Launch of the VAUBAN Infrastructure Partners Climate Strategy
Our CEO, Gwenola Chambon, appointed as member of the UN PRI Infrastructure Advisory Committee
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OUR CLIMATE STRATEGY
OUR CLIMATE STRATEGY
Vauban IP is an infrastructure specialist investing and managing a diversified portfolio, ensuring its consistency with its sustainability goals. In the context of the acceleration of global carbon neutrality commitments and the urgency to adapt to climate change, Vauban IP is reasserting its ambition as a “transformative” investor.
To be transformative, Vauban IP strategy is deployed at three levels: the investment strategy level (“Invest”), the asset management level (“Influence”) and the cooperation with other stakeholders level (“Involve”).
Invest
With respect to climate issues, Vauban IP has committed to align with the Paris Agreement. This is reflected at the investment strategy level:
• Vauban IP excludes assets related to exploration and production of fossil fuels (coal, oil, shale gas, gas) from its portfolio.
• Vauban IP has notably integrated in each phase of its investment process an impact methodology, a holistic approach to ESG matters throughout the stages of each asset’s entire lifecycle, based on a comprehensive materiality analysis. Material impacts are mapped under both GRESB and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) frameworks to monitor, report and analyze assets’ sustainability performance.
• Vauban IP systematically assesses the carbon footprint and resilience of its investments and how they contribute to the Paris Agreement objective to limit global temperature to 2°C compared to preindustrial levels.
Influence
Vauban IP actively supports its asset operators going forward in their climate strategies:
• Regarding Vauban IP’s investments, one of the major outcomes of the impact methodology is to highlight the positive and negative sustainability impacts of each of its assets.
• Based on a regular review, the investment team is incentivized to fix and follow up KPIs with their asset operators to improve their climate impact.
• Based on those KPIs Vauban IP may support the asset operators’ decisions and going forward in their ambitious and targeted climate strategies.
Involve
In respect of other stakeholders’ involvement, Vauban IP is supporting, on a case-by-case basis, market initiatives working towards industrial and transformative solutions, sustainability guidelines and regulatory changes favouring sustainable infrastructure:
• Among other initiatives, Vauban IP conducted in 2021 a study (“Infrastructure for Climate”), based on dedicated workshops combining external academic expertise and business insights with key industrial players, to present views and solutions on how to adapt infrastructure projects to climate change.
Key figures
2020 carbon footprint
at portfolio level
(tCO2 eq p.a.
per €m invested)
2020 carbon footprint
per key sector
(tCO2 eq p.a.
per €m invested)
Sectoral assessment
of portfolio temperature
(°C)
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OUR IMPACT
OUR IMPACT
Investment Strategy
As a responsible investor, we strive to maximize value creation and a positive impact for all stakeholders.
Portfolio case studies
Proxiserve
An active player of the
energy transition
Indigo
A smart and multifaceted infrastructure
Axione
The deployment of FTTH in Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Our impact as a committed company
Environment
With the support of Reforest'Action, Vauban is committed to the carbon compensation of its CO2 emissions
Diversity
Signatory of the France Invest Diversity Charter towards gender equality
ESG Performance
We therefore align our teams’ interests with the ESG performance of our portfolio companies.
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ESG PUBLICATIONS
ESG PUBLICATIONS
Policies
ESG Research
2020 Vauban The Era of Infrastructure 4.0
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2021 Vauban Infrastructure for Climate report
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Sustainability Reports
2020 Vauban The Era of Infrastructure 4.0
Download2021 Vauban Infrastructure for Climate report
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SFDR
Vauban SFDR Statement
DownloadPursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the publication of information on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (“SFDR”), this document includes the communication relating to Articles 3, 4 and 5:
• The sustainability risk policy,
• The main negative impacts and
• The integration of sustainability risks into the remuneration policy.