LE4: Personnel Sustainability Performance Targets
Maximum Score
1.62 points
Prefill
Eligible
Validation
Evidence and other answer are manually validated
2026 Updates
None
Does the entity include sustainability factors in the annual performance targets of personnel?
Assessment Instructions
Intent: What is the purpose of this indicator?
This indicator evaluates whether, and to what extent, sustainability-related issues are reflected in personnel performance targets. Integrating these factors into annual objectives helps align individual responsibilities with organizational priorities and supports improved sustainability performance.
Input: How do I complete this indicator?
Instructions apply to first-year fund participants or funds that materially changed their management practices since last year's assessment.
Select Yes or No: If selecting 'Yes', select applicable sub-options.
Financial consequences: Select from the available sub-options. Financial consequences are any consequences that relate to monetary impacts. For good practice examples, see the ‘References’ section below.
It is possible to report using the ‘Other’ answer option. Ensure that the ‘Other’ answer provided is not a duplicate or subset of another option.
Terminology
Annual performance targets
Targets set in annual performance reviews based on assessments of employee performance.
Asset manager
A person or group of people responsible for developing and overseeing financial and strategic developments of investments at asset level.
Board of Directors
A body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization as detailed in the corporate charter. Boards normally comprise both executive and non-executive directors.
C-suite level staff
A team of individuals who have the day-to-day responsibility of managing the entity. C-suite level staff are sometimes referred to, within corporations, as senior management, executive management, executive leadership team, top management, upper management, higher management, or simply seniors.
Dedicated employee(s) on sustainability-related issues
The employee(s)’ main responsibility is defining, implementing and monitoring the sustainability objectives at entity level.
Sustainability Manager
Dedicated employee(s) who manages the sustainabilty strategy and implementation of the entity.
External manager or service provider
Organizations, businesses or individuals that offer services to others in exchange for payment. These include, but are not limited to, consultants, agents and brokers.
Financial consequences
Predetermined monetary benefits (or detriments) incorporated into the employee compensation structures. Examples include bonuses, raises, profit-sharing, financial rewards, and financial incentives. The financial consequences are contingent upon the achievement of the annual performance targets.
Note: If a promotion/demotion consequence is listed as financial, then it can be accepted.
Note: Consequences can be negative.
Fund/portfolio manager
A person or a group who manages a portfolio of investments and the deployment of investor capital by creating and implementing asset level strategies across the entire portfolio or fund.
Investment analysts
A person or group with expertise in evaluating financial and investment information, typically for the purpose of making buy, sell and hold recommendations for securities.
Investment Committee
A group of individuals who oversee the entity’s investment strategy, evaluates investment proposals and maintains the investment policies, subject to the Board’s approval.
Investor relations
A person or a group that provides investors with an accurate account of company affairs so investors can make better informed decisions.
Validation: What evidence is required?
The evidence and other answer(s) provided will be subject to manual validation.
However, GRESB will automatically apply the previous year's validation decision for previous fund participants, provided the indicator response and documentation remain consistent (i.e., the entity does not modify its selections or evidence). Read more here.
Evidence
The provided evidence must cover all the following elements:
Existence of Sustainability-related performance targets: the evidence must demonstrate that annual sustainability performance targets are explicitly tied to the selected personnel groups.
If sustainability objectives apply to all employees, the evidence must clearly state that. Note that language that references all employees will support all personnel groups except the Board of Directors. For example, a policy document stating that sustainability goals are mandatory for all employees during performance reviews would suffice.
If sustainability objectives are specific to certain personnel groups, the evidence must clearly link the targets to only those groups. For example, a performance review template that explicitly requires asset managers to meet carbon emission reduction targets for client travel would suffice.
Personnel group applicability: targets must relate to all members within the selected personnel groups
If the sustainability target applies to only one individual within a broader personnel group, this must be reported under the "Other" answer.
For personnel groups consisting of a single individual, the evidence must explicitly clarify this in the provided documentation or the open text box.
If an entity provides evidence showing how a sustainability target has a financial consequence for a specific employee within a personnel group and clearly states that the same target and consequence apply to the remaining employees in the group, this evidence will be considered sufficient to support the applicability of the target for the entire group
Financial consequences tied to Sustainability performance: the evidence must explain the financial implications (positive or negative) for meeting or failing to meet sustainability targets for each selected personnel group. This includes clearly linking the financial consequences (e.g., bonuses, pay adjustments, penalties, promotion or demotion, etc.) to the sustainability targets of each selected personnel group. The connection must be clearly defined within the provided documents, open text box, or cover page.
Examples of acceptable evidence: policy documents, process guidelines, employee performance reviews for the reporting year, employment contracts, or documentation describing financial consequences (e.g., bonus schemes, web pages). Note that sensitive information may be redacted from the documents as long as the requirements outlined above are clearly met. If the consequences are not clearly defined and connected to the sustainability targets within the provided evidence, then a sufficient explanation must be provided within the evidence open text box.
Other
State the specific employee type and ensure the following:
Other answers should relate to groups of employees, such as acquisition, development, or facilities teams, or specific personnel who have sustainability targets assigned to them.
If a target relates to a single employee within a personnel group, this must be reported as an "Other" answer. The submission must include the employee's name, title, and personnel group in the open text box.
Other answers cannot be a duplicate of a previously selected option. For example, ‘sustainability team’ should not be used if ‘dedicated staff on sustainability-linked issues’ is already selected.
Multiple Other answers are acceptable, but only one will count toward the score.
Good practice examples
Example one (remuneration report)
Scoring
Scoring: How does GRESB score this indicator?
The scoring of this indicator is equal to the fraction assigned to the selected option, multiplied by the total score of the indicator.
Evidence
The evidence is manually validated and assigned a multiplier, according to the table below. The evidence must support the validation requirements. If any requirements are not met, the evidence may be partially accepted or not accepted, depending on the level of alignment with the requirements.
Accepted
2/2
Partially Accepted
1/2
Not Accepted
0
Other
The 'Other' answer is manually validated and assigned a score, which is used as a score multiplying factor as outlined below:
Accepted
1/1
Not Accepted
0
Duplicate
0
Frequently Asked Questions
For the ‘Personnel sustainability performance targets’ indicator, will evidence be fully accepted if financial consequences apply only to some of the personnel within the selected group?
The reporting entity may only select a personnel group if the financial consequences linked with the sustainability performance targets apply to all members of the selected personnel group. If, for example, only a single employee of the personnel group is impacted by financial consequences linked with the achievement of sustainability objectives, a participant should select "Other" rather than the personnel group of which is part, and include the following information in the description:
Employee’s name;
Employee's title.
For indicator LE4, ‘Personnel sustainability performance targets,’ can the financial consequences take effect after the reporting year?
Regardless of when they take effect, the financial consequences must be associated with the personnel’s achievement of sustainability targets within the reporting year chosen in indicator EC4. Evidence must demonstrate that the performance period considered for reaching the targets fell within the reporting year.
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