Responsible Investing

Responsible Investing strengthens Mubadala's ability to deliver sustainable, risk-adjusted returns. By embedding sustainability considerations into every step of the investment lifecycle, from due diligence through to the stewardship of assets, the Responsible Investing team creates and preserves value and increases the resilience of the portfolio. The Responsible Investing team works with investment teams to deliver tangible sustainability and financial outcomes that benefit Mubadala's shareholder, partners and communities.

Deploying Capital With Discipline

To deliver on Mubadala's Responsible Investing objectives, the Responsible Investing team has developed and implemented proprietary tools and world-class solutions to consider sustainability factors in every decision.

The Sustainable Returns Model assesses 19 material sustainability factors to support risk assessment and identify value creation opportunities.
The General Partners Model evaluates how private equity and venture capital partners integrate sustainability in their investment processes, supporting structured engagement and accountability across indirect investments.
The Climate Integration Framework enables deeper climate analysis, strengthens carbon management through advanced modelling, and supports portfolio companies as they develop and execute transition plans.

Responsible Investing at Mubadala is focused on pragmatic, step-by-step progress that delivers measurable value. The practical approach enables value creation today and helps to position the portfolio for the decades to come.

Driving Performance Through Stewardship

Through active engagement with Mubadala's investment portfolio, Responsible Investing builds sustainability fluency and supports climate opportunity and risk management to improve long-term resilience and market position.

Mubadala has implemented a formal process for analyzing physical climate risk across material investments and integrating it across the investment lifecycle.

Engaging With Partners

Mubadala frequently deploys capital in partnership. Responsible Investing shares practical insights, stewards and shapes the standards that guide capital, and guides convergence on sustainability in investment decision-making.

The Responsible Investing team engages with General Partners to support the identification of improvement areas in sustainability integration across the investment lifecycle.

Advancing Market Practice

Through leadership within the One Planet Sovereign Wealth Funds network, including work on climate-led value creation and disclosure guidance, and the application of AI in sustainability processes, Mubadala contributes to practical frameworks that support consistent integration of material sustainability factors across capital markets.

Mubadala is a founding member of Chapter Zero UAE and a member of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds, upholding the Santiago Principles. Mubadala sits on the Advisory Council of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and is a member of the ESG Data Convergence Initiative.