
Our approach
We make principled investment decisions and hold our investee companies to high standards with regard to:
- The management of the health, safety, and welfare of their employees.
- Their impact on the environment and the communities in which they operate.
We work closely with our portfolio companies to improve ESG performance over the lifecycle of our investment. We do this by:
- Ensuring the ESG functions within the company are adequately resourced.
- Supporting companies to develop proportional Environmental and Social Management systems.
- Defining short and longer-term priorities within an ESG Action Plan.
- Formally monitoring performance and progress against these plans.
- Collaborating with our portfolio companies to develop innovative solutions to the complex challenges they face along their ESG journey.
OUR FRAMEWORK
We use the International Finance Corporation's Performance Standards on Social and Environmental Sustainability (2012) as our policy framework, and we require our portfolio companies to align their operations with these standards.

To ensure alignment with the highest ESG standards and ensure our assets maintain robust social licenses, TechMet has established:
- A dedicated ESG-focused Technical Assistance Facility that issues grant funding for specific ESG workstreams at our portfolio companies.
- A Social Investment Fund that provides targeted financial support to build community benefit projects in the areas in which our assets operate with a focus on climate resilience, education, training, and gender parity.