Robeco

• Robeco’s materiality assessment addresses nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities across the value chain scope.
• Material impacts through investments: climate change, land-use change, freshwater-use change, sea-use change, direct exploitation, invasive alien species, pollution.

Material dependencies through investments: ecosystem services including water, food, timber, climate regulation, flood control, soil formation and nutrient cycling.

• Robeco has SMART targets for material nature topics with a deadline of 2030.

For example:

• Reduce carbon footprint of investments by 50% from 2019 levels by 2030
• 90% reduction in Scope 1 operational emissions by 2030
• By 2030 relevant investee companies should have appropriate practices for deforestation, water consumption and hazardous waste management.

• Robeco is taking various actions in the nature space.

For example, Robeco:

• Implements Biodiversity Traffic Light (Robeco’s proprietary tool) assessing nature transition readiness
• Engages companies on biodiversity, water and resource management
• Requires zero-deforestation policies from forest-risk commodity companies
• Engages seafood, shipping and cruise sectors on ocean health
• Uses voting escalation against biodiversity and deforestation laggards.

• Oversight is provided by the Executive Committee (ExCo) and the Sustainability & Impact Strategy Committee (SISC).
• SISC has the authority to approve policies and set practical guidelines for the implementation of their Sustainable Investing strategy.
• The SISC meets once every two weeks and communicates the outcomes of these meetings on a monthly basis to the ExCo.