Sustainability framework

Inhabit

We believe change starts at home. We run our business responsibly and act sustainably.

How we inhabit

We believe change starts at home. We try to inhabit our own ecosystem in a manner that ensures a sustainable future for all. From the Green Team at our offices to our work in conservation and with communities globally, we aim to help preserve our natural world and support a better tomorrow for future generations.​

Our corporate sustainability strategy is focused on five areas — energy, waste, water, sustainable travel and responsible procurement — with the aim of reducing and mitigating our carbon footprint.


Ninety One Green, a grassroots initiative of champions within the business, drives our efforts to be more sustainable and ensures our actions are aligned with our mission to exceed clients’ expectations in everything we do.

Investments involve risk; losses may be made.

Read our Sustainability & Stewardship Report

Financial year 2024 highlights

Reducing our environmental footprint

Carbon neutral on a Scope 1, 2 and 3
(Category 6)

through our partnership with BioCarbon Partners

Agreed to establish first-of-a-kind ‘wheeling’ clean-energy procurement arrangement
for our Cape Town office

Supporting our people

Ninety One Green, an employee network,
continued to support employees to reduce their personal carbon footprints

Amplified staff charitable contributions
via our charity matching programme

Investing in our community

Partnered with
UK peers and RedSTART to commission a seven-year longitudinal study
to identify links between financial education at an early age and social mobility

Provided funding and support
to more than

100
university
students

in South Africa through our Changeblazers programme

Supported a
third solar-powered water infrastructure project in rural South Africa,
where there was previously no easy access to clean water

Partnered with institutional clients in South Africa for the third consecutive year to expand a programme that
gives high-school learners a means of school transportation

Funded more than

10
postgraduate
research projects

in water and health sectors, where the intended outcome is to benefit the lives of ordinary people.

Funded
entrepreneurship programmes and community organisations in rural and peri-urban areas

Conservation


We are the founding sponsor of the Tusk Conservation Awards and have expanded our support of Tusk’s work through the recent launch of a charitable share class in one of our sustainable strategies. The annual management fee from the money invested in the share class will be donated to Tusk on an ongoing basis. These annual donations will be made available to help the ranger community, especially families of rangers who have laid down their lives, and to support rangers’ conservation efforts.

We also provided support to Conservation South Africa to expand its work with farmers and communities to embrace climate change-resilient farming practices.

Learn more about Tusk Conservation Awards

Essentials of net-zero investing
Episode 0427 min20 Jul 2023
Sovereign carbon assessment

Carbon data is backward looking and needs a better measure at a sovereign level explains Portfolio Manager Nicolas Jaquier. In an interview with Sustainability Director, Daisy Streatfeild, he outlines the unique challenges he and the team face when measuring and assessing the net-zero impact of countries and how to align portfolios to this goal.