ESG

Over the past decade, EIG has thoughtfully developed a quiet yet purposeful commitment to integration of ESG factors throughout our business.

1987

First gas-fired power investment

1988

First renewable energy investment

1989

First gas infrastructure investment

1993

First wind investment

2005

First LNG investment

2010

Adopted ESG policy

2013

Signed the UN Principles for Responsible Investment

2015

Reconstituted ESG Committee to include members of EIG’s senior-most management team

2016

Contributed to EDF / PRI report: “An Investor’s Guide to Methane: Engaging with Oil and Gas Companies to Manage a Rising Risk”

2020

Hired an ESG Director, a 15-year ESG veteran

Co-hosted a virtual Methane Solutions Summit with Quantum Energy Partners & the EDF

2021

Became the first private equity firm to commit to the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF)

APPROACH TO ESG

At EIG, our work facilitates the production, transport and delivery of energy to communities around the globe, which we consider a great privilege, and a great responsibility. Our firm and portfolio companies represent global diversity of backgrounds, cultures, and experienced that contribute uniquely to societies worldwide, and we are unified by our desire and need to ensure and lay the infrastructure for clean, reliable and cost-effective energy well into the future.

ESG GOVERNANCE

Integration of ESG factors into our investment and engagement process with portfolio companies has been a focus of EIG’s since 2010. In 2018, we started assessing our program with fresh eyes and implementing new programs, including the enhanced collection of data from our portfolio companies. Access to more complete and comprehensive ESG-related information allows us to more readily inform our clients about the ESG performance of our portfolio and improves our ability to influence positive ESG practices within our investments.

We aim to maximize the transparency of portfolio and overall fund ESG performance over time.

ESG Governance Feedback Loop

Our approach is cyclical in nature, dominated by the continuous feedback of our clients and portfolio companies. As we collect more information from our portfolio companies pertaining to their ESG performance, we work to critically analyze how these factors are distributed across our funds and shift over time.

ESG Committee

The ESG Committee, formed in 2013, is a gating body for approval to proceed with each proposed EIG investment. We have eight standing voting members, a ninth rotating voting member, and a Committee Secretary.