Private Equity Wire ESG AAA European Awards 2023

The Private Equity Wire ESG AAA European Awards have been created to benchmark, acknowledge, and reward the efforts of private equity firms that have created sustainable and sector-leading ESG policies at both the portfolio company and management firm level in Europe.

With regulators, LPs and internal stakeholders pushing for more progress and better ESG metrics, Private Equity Wire has partnered with EthicsGrade, the stakeholder-centric, AI-driven, ESG data company, to create an application process that is fair and credible.

We want being shortlisted and winning an award to be a genuine badge of ESG quality and advancement. Using the expertise and independence of Private Equity Wire’s partnership with EthicsGrade, the ESG AAA Awards will represent a kitemark of achievement and quality across this globally, societally, and ethically vital space.

The winner selection process is based on a mixture of quantitative data and the evidence submitted, with three awards up for grabs in each category: AAA, AA and A.

How to enter?

Spanning 30 categories, managers can enter our awards using an application process that takes a minute per category. Using a simple metric driven application process, managers can enter their details on Private Equity Wire’s and Ethics Grade’s specially designed platform.

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Each category can be entered via a simple questionnaire – questions are based on industry feedback and the expertise of our data partner, EthicsGrade.

Managers can enter multiple fund and manager categories, with a varying set of questions applied to each distinct category.

The category with the fewest questions is, ‘Best corporate sustainability for portfolio company’, with 16, and the most are the ‘Best ESG firm’ categories with 27 each.

To make the judging process fair and transparent the model is skewed towards quantitative questions versus open and subjective ones.

When filling in the form, please note we are judging performance and initiatives spanning from January 2022 to December 2022.
The application process is totally secure – no element of the forms will be made public, and information will only be viewed by our judges.
All entries will be independently vetted by EthicsGrade, with the final decision made by an external panel of judges.
Winners will be announced at our awards evening, taking place at Convene 22 Bishopsgate, London on Tuesday 24th October, 2023.
Our judging consists of a panel of external expert judges who will collaborate to reach a decision on the final winners.

Methodology

Winners

ESG AAA Fund Winners

ESG AAA Fund Categories

ESG AAA Manager Winners

ESG AAA Manager Categories

ESG AAA Portfolio Company Winners

ESG AAA Portfolio Company Categories

Criteria

Branding

Recognition

Benchmarking

Differentiation

Evening Schedule

Past Awards