How Sabanc? Holding is creating a future where businesses work in harmony with nature

Sabanc? Holding, Türkiye’s leading investment holding, is engaged in a wide variety of business activities through its subsidiaries and affiliates, mainly in the banking, financial services, energy and climate technologies, mobility solutions, material technologies, digital and other sectors. The company’s higher purpose is to unite Türkiye and the World for a sustainable life with leading enterprises. With this core reason for being, Sabanc? Holding has found a successful way to create value for its stakeholders.

Integrated and customized sustainability strategy

Although it is challenging to operate across different sectors with diversified level of maturity levels, Sabanc? Holding’s leadership is focused on tailoring strategies and action plans, that are customized for each group company, paving unique ways forward for their carbon intensity, maturity and sector in which they operate.

Sabanc? Holding defines its sustainable business strategy as focusing on both protecting the value of its core businesses and creating value through growth in SDG-related businesses. This approach improves the resilience of core business operations while driving a portfolio transformation, aligning Sabanc? Group portfolio with the UN SDGs.

As the climate crisis intensifies, Sabanc? Holding leverages its diverse portfolio to address these challenges directly, pioneering sustainable products, services, and investments within a responsible business model. The first Responsible Investment Policy issued by an investment holding company in Türkiye, exemplifies Sabanc? Holding’s commitment to drive positive change.

Metrics and clear KPI’s are key

Within a diversified portfolio, extending from energy and climate technologies to material technologies, mobility solutions, and digital technologies Sabanc? Holding acts with the responsibility of the importance of metrics, transparent reporting, and accountability for reaching nature-related targets. With this ambition, Sabanc? Holding follows more than 1,000 KPIs despite its portfolio diversification and integrates Group-wide projects to balance the knowledge and ambition level of Group companies.

As the first holding company in Türkiye to announce a Net Zero Emissions target, Sabanc? Holding commits to reduce its Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 42% by 2030 and set ambitious science-based targets together with its comprehensive Nature Agenda. This ambition echoes within its portfolio as Sabanc? Group has formulated a comprehensive decarbonization strategy by determining 15 Decarbonization Levers to accelerate Group’s transition process, outlining specific measures and actions for mitigation to effectively decarbonize various industries.

Orchestrating a balanced relationship between nature and business

Sabanc? Holding is determined to create and protect effective long-term solutions, and to maximize the balanced relationship between nature and businesses. The company launched several projects across the entire Group to address its impact on nature with its commitment agenda being set on four pillars with a nature-based approach: Decarbonization Initiatives, Water Management, Biodiversity and Circular Economy. With the aim of paving the way for a more harmonious relationship between business and nature, Sabanc? Holding plays the role of an orchestra chef within its ecosystem. This orchestration mindset follows through in other parts of the Holding’s Nature Agenda: Aligning key-water related definitions, calculation methodologies and metrics across all Group companies; Embedding biodiversity preservation across its value chain by conducting extensive assessments of priority locations, mapping areas where its operations intersect with vulnerable ecosystems; Enhancing resource productivity, minimizing reliance on landfills and incineration, setting tangible targets across the group to strengthen circular practices.

Sabanc? Holding is open to share its learnings and calls upon business leaders worldwide to act. Sustainable execution demands bold, measurable targets, transparent reporting, and fostering partnerships that create a future where businesses work in harmony with nature, safeguarding the planet and its people.