Stafford Capital Partners launches fifth annual Sustainability Report
London, 13 October 2025: Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”) has today published its fifth annual Sustainability Report, highlighting its achievements in sustainable investing between 2024 and 2025. The report marks both the firm’s 25th anniversary and another year of progress in responsible investment across its global investment program.
With over USD 8.5 billion in assets under management, Stafford continues to deliver both financial returns to investors, while focusing on environmental and social outcomes through its active manager engagement and enhancement of its ESG data collection. With a steadfast commitment to the Paris Agreement and Net Zero, Stafford’s innovative investment solutions across timberland, infrastructure, and private equity continue to contribute to real-world positive impact.
The firm’s latest Sustainability Report showcases Stafford’s evolution from a pioneering boutique to a global leader in sustainable, real asset and private equity investment. During the year, Stafford reviewed and updated its 2030 interim net zero targets, leveraging the latest IIGCC and Private Markets Decarbonisation Roadmap (PMDR) guidance. In addition, the firm’s internal carbon model estimated that gross sequestration of its entire timberland portfolio was 17.0 million tCO2 of which 6.5 million tCO2e in net biogenic carbon removals in 2024.
Commenting on the report, Marta Jankovic, Head of Sustainability at Stafford, said: “As we celebrate 25 years of Stafford, we remain focused on deep engagement with our managers, advancing our Paris-aligned and Net Zero commitments, and continuing to offer our clients investment solutions across our timberland, infrastructure and private equity strategies. Our work with partners and industry bodies is more important than ever as we work towards making a greater difference to our clients and society more broadly.”
Highlights from the 2024/25 report include:
• Strengthening our Net Zero commitments: Reviewed and updated our 2030 interim net zero targets across the business, leveraging recent guidance: the Net Zero Investment Framework (NZIF) 2.0 and the Private Markets Decarbonisation Roadmap (PMDR)
• Active manager engagement: Enhanced ESG benchmarking and scoring methodology, with targeted engagement on net zero, climate risk, and biodiversity.
• Industry leadership: Achieved 5/5 stars across all modules in PRI’s 2024 Assessment Report, including infrastructure and private equity; active contributor to NZAM, IIGCC, iCI, ISFC, and EDCI. Contributed to iCI’s Voluntary Carbon Markets guidance highlighting our carbon fund as a use case for investing in carbon credits generating forestry funds
• Data and transparency: Partnered with ESG data platform and adopted the EDCI template for standardised ESG metrics.
• Advancing physical climate risk management: Participated in the IIGCC PCRAM 2.0 methodology, showcasing management of climate risk in the investment and operational management of Solar PV infrastructure assets
• Deployment and enhanced monitoring for Carbon Fund: Introduced enhanced sustainability monitoring at the investment level of Stafford’s Carbon Fund including eDNA testing for biodiversity monitoring, water quality tests for riparian zone ecosystem health monitoring, and waste generated from forest operations.
Read the Stafford Sustainability Report for 2024-25 here.
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About Stafford Capital Partners
Stafford is an independent private markets investment and advisory firm with USD 8.5 billion (as at 30 June 2025) in assets under management and advice for more than 150 institutional clients worldwide. Founded in 2000, Stafford has a global team of 85+ professionals investing in infrastructure, timberland & agriculture, and sustainable private equity through secondaries, primaries, and co-investments. Stafford is UN PRI signatory and is committed to the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) Initiative. It implements an RI Policy across all strategies. In the UK, Stafford is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Firm Reference Number: 225586).