Our Contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

We have a long track record in investing with a focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and we monitor how different business lines contribute to the SDGs through their investments.

In 2003 we started investing in the timberland sector, delivering returns to clients through the sustainable management of forests. Timberland has been increasingly recognised for its sustainable characteristics, most significantly through its ability to sequester carbon. Today timberland investing represents a material part of Stafford’s activities, with more than USD 2.7 billion of funds under management and advice.

We launched our first sustainability focused private equity fund product in 2004 and since that time have raised more than USD 1.5 billion for sustainability-themed investments. Our track record includes primary and secondary commitments to more than 75 different private equity and infrastructure funds active in the cleantech and sustainability space. We have also made dozens of co-investments into sustainability focused companies alongside our investee fund managers.

More recently we have raised capital for a secondaries focused private equity fund, committing to funds and direct secondaries which contribute in a meaningful way to one or more of the SDGs.

Most relevant SDGs for Stafford’s portfolios