Opening a new future for people and places

For our investments to meet high ESG standards we must ensure that sustainability is fully integrated across all our activities.

Our approach is aligned with each fund’s business model, placing ESG at the centre of all investment decisions, including how we manage, add value and innovate to deliver a modern, efficient and sustainable portfolio that enables our customers and stakeholders to succeed.

1. How we invest

We want to be known as a leader in responsible investment.  We take the lead by investing in and developing modern space that will benefit our customers, local communities and the wider environment. 

Key initiatives

• Utilising green finance
• Assessing ESG risks and opportunities through ESG due diligence
• Improving our ESG ratings
• Achieving high sustainability certifications

2. How we manage

We manage our funds to have leading sustainability ratings. We focus our energy and expertise, understanding where we can directly impact and where we need to influence, facilitate and partner sustainable initiatives.

Key initiatives

• Implementing green leases with tenants
• Improving energy performance
• Encouraging the adoption of green energy
• Ensuring buildings are resilient to climate change
• Enhancing biodiversity
• Sustainable transport
• Supply chain management

3. How we add value

We create social value in all communities we invest in. By delivering a clear ESG strategy we can deliver responsible financial returns to our investors and value to society.

Key initiatives

• Tenant engagement and awareness
• Health and wellbeing for customers and communities
• Skills and jobs in developments
• Community investment

4. How we innovate

We innovate to ensure our funds are net carbon neutral. We use our ingenuity to find new and creative ways to enhance our communities.

Key initiatives

• Net zero carbon construction
• Sponsorship of sustainability innovation award
• Piloting innovations with partners that share high sustainability goals

Measuring our performance

We are transparent about our performance and seek to disclose all material information to our stakeholders. In addition to disclosing our material impacts annually at a fund level, we engage with key selected ESG indices. These provide valuable rating and benchmarking measures of ESG performance. This helps us to demonstrate our achievements as well as providing feedback to help inform our management practices.

From issues to impact; identifying what is most material

As a business we do not operate in isolation. Global forces not only affect our activities today, but also how we will operate in the future. It is essential to develop a sustainability strategy that addresses the most material ESG risks and opportunities that could impact Tritax Management and its investment funds both now and over the next ten years.

To determine risks and opportunities, we conducted a Materiality Assessment with a wide range of stakeholders including customers, colleagues, investors and regulators to identify the issues that matter most to them. The long list of issues discussed were based on key global external risks, opportunities, best practice in ESG and current trends. More information on methodology and process can be found online here. The short list of material issues identified in assessment informed our strategy and four key priorities.