Harvest Partners, LP has strived to act as a responsible global citizen since its inception. Consistent with providing the best possible returns to our investors, we believe a genuine commitment to the highest standards of business practices and ethics is essential. By considering environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors as we make investment decisions, Harvest’s believes we are creating a sustainable long-term value for our portfolio companies.

In developing our Firm policy, we have considered a range of codes and standards, including the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI), the UN Global Compact (UNGC) and the American Investment Council’s Guidelines for Responsible Investment. As non-control investment partner, we strive to integrate the following ESG considerations into our investment decision and portfolio oversight process, where applicable, and our internal ESG management:

• Climate Change: The identification and mitigation of both physical and transition risks that arise as a result of climate change will enable our portfolio companies to become more resilient, sustainable, and productive.
  
  
• Environmental Impact: By minimizing and properly managing the environmental impact of raw materials in their operations, companies enjoy long-term cost-savings and may benefit from improved relations with regulatory bodies and local communities.
  
  
• Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity: Diversity in the workplace fosters greater innovation, while equal employment opportunity protections uphold the values of equal treatment and opportunity for all.
  
  
• Social and Labor Conditions: By engaging and maximizing the potential of its human capital, a company can reduce unwanted employee turnover and realize improvements.
  
  
• Worker Health and Safety: A company has a significant responsibility to its workforce to ensure employee protection from occupational safety and health risks in operations.
  
  
• Supply Chain Compliance: Companies can extend their values to all parts of their operations, including their supply chains, by procuring inputs from sources that responsibly manage labor and safety risks.
  
  
• Data Privacy and Security: Consumers increasingly expect companies to safeguard their personal data and other sensitive information. Adherence to stringent information security standards upholds company obligations to customers and regulatory bodies.
  
  
• Product Safety and Integrity: Confidence in the safety and quality of a company’s products prevents costly penalties and bolsters a company’s reputation.
  
  
• Anti-Bribery and Corruption: Anti-bribery and corruption diligence improves companies’ capacity to prevent incidents that may arise from operations in countries at risk of bribery and corruption, preserving reputational capital and avoiding regulatory fines.
  
  
• Ethics and Compliance: Ethics and compliance standards serve to prevent conflicts of interest and other appearances of ethical impropriety that may otherwise place companies at risk, especially in engagements with U.S. government entities.

In executing the above ESG Principles, our Investment Professionals shall strive to:

• Conduct ESG due diligence, combining risk mitigation and value creation, on portfolio investments to identify and address risks that are material to the operational and financial longevity of our portfolio companies.
• Monitor portfolio companies following acquisition to facilitate continuous ESG improvement.

In executing the above ESG Principles, Senior Leadership shall:

• Delineate responsibility for executing ESG commitments to our Investment Professionals for investment due diligence and to Senior Leadership for internal ESG matters.
• Provide the Harvest Partners ESG Playbook to investment professionals to operationalize policy commitments to the investment process.
• Conduct annual ESG training for Harvest’s Investment Professionals on ESG best practices.

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As institutional investors, we believe that we have a duty to act in the best long-term interests of our beneficiaries. In this fiduciary role, we believe that environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues can affect the performance of investment portfolios to varying degrees across companies. We also recognize that weighing these issues in the context of our decision making may better align investors with broader objectives of society.

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