Sustainability

Sustainability in İş Leasing

İş Leasing follows a policy that addresses sustainability in an integrated manner across economic, environmental, and social dimensions within the framework of its “Sustainable, Quality, and Profitable Growth” strategy. The company aims to create long-term value by developing sustainable business models in line with corporate governance, transparency, risk management, and ethical principles. Within this framework, İş Leasing's sustainability strategy focuses on activities that contribute to economic development and minimize environmental impacts while fulfilling its responsibilities to its stakeholders. İş Leasing takes into account the environmental impacts of the products and services it offers in the financial leasing sector and plays an active role in areas such as financing renewable energy projects, energy efficiency, and efficient use of resources, thereby accelerating its Green Transformation Vision. By enriching its funding resources to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy, İş Leasing encourages not only its own operations but also those of its customers and suppliers to align with sustainability principles.

As a leading institution in its sector, İş Leasing has become the first company to publish a sustainability report. This comprehensive report transparently shares İş Leasing’s strong commitments in the field of sustainability with all stakeholders, while also outlining its long-term goals and strategic roadmap.

İş Leasing's approach to environmental sustainability includes practices aimed at reducing the environmental impacts arising from its direct and indirect activities. Effective policies are being developed in areas such as reducing energy consumption, efficient use of resources, and waste management. Additionally, the company plays an active role in providing financial support for its customers' environmentally friendly projects and funding renewable energy and energy efficiency initiatives. With this approach, İş Leasing aims to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy and contribute to environmental sustainability. The company also continuously improves its direct and indirect environmental impact management systems to ensure compliance with national and international standards in this area.

In terms of social sustainability, İş Leasing stands out with its human resources policies, employee development, and social contribution activities. Committed to providing a safe, healthy, and fair working environment for its employees, the company adopts an approach based on respect for human rights. İş Leasing is also the first company in the financial leasing sector to provide syndication. Aiming to increase the competence of its employees through training and development programs, İş Leasing also contributes to the improvement of social welfare at the local and national levels through social contribution projects. It supports various segments of society through social responsibility projects, particularly in the fields of education, culture, arts, and health.

İş Leasing's risk management and governance practices are of great importance within its corporate sustainability structure. The company maintains its financial stability by proactively managing risks and conducts its activities in line with sustainability principles through its ethical management approach. The regular discussion of sustainability-related issues by the board of directors and the integration of developments in these areas into strategic decision-making processes demonstrate how deeply embedded İş Leasing's sustainability approach is in its corporate structure. As a result, the company operates with a holistic business model that aims not only for short-term profitability but also for the creation of long-term social, environmental, and economic value.

Environmental Sustainability in İş Leasing

İş Leasing aims to create long-term environmental value for its customers, shareholders, employees, and society in line with its sustainability strategy. Within this framework, İş Leasing strives to minimize its impact on nature and carefully assess environmental impacts during the economic growth process, based on its understanding of environmental sustainability and responsibility.

As an example of an environmentally conscious and responsible financial leasing company in our country, İş Leasing contributes to the economic growth process by taking into account the potential environmental impacts. The four key areas of critical importance in the environmental impact assessment process are: Energy, Emissions, Water, and Waste Management processes are carried out within the framework of İş Leasing's environmental responsibility commitment.

İş Leasing provides financial support primarily for renewable energy investments and sustainability projects. With various improvement initiatives aimed at reducing energy consumption and using renewable energy sources more efficiently, İş Leasing fulfills its responsibility to protect nature and ensure a sustainable future by investing in sustainable technologies in line with its carbon neutrality goal.

İş Leasing has significantly increased its renewable energy usage rate compared to previous years and has been included in the I-REC, an international certification system that verifies that electricity is produced from renewable energy sources, since 2021. 100% of the electricity consumption at the General Management building is supplied from renewable energy sources and is I-REC certified.

İş Leasing continues its sustainability efforts uninterrupted with the aim of leaving a more livable world for future generations.

Combating climate change and managing climate risks are important parts of İş Leasing's environmental sustainability approach. The company continues its efforts with a dual focus: fulfilling its responsibility to leave a livable world for future generations and adopting a service approach that takes into account the impacts of climate change on its operations. İş Leasing is developing its processes in line with the Paris Agreement to integrate the impacts of climate change into risk management processes and assess climate risks.

İş Leasing adopts an approach that respects human rights and implements sustainable and transparent human resources policies with a focus on employee satisfaction.

Human Resources Approach

İş Leasing is committed to meeting the expectations of its stakeholders and supporting continuous development by valuing its employees. The company's organizational structure, consisting of employees who are team-oriented, open to change, and aligned with corporate values, strengthens workplace culture and plays a valuable role in the journey toward sustainability. In line with this, the company continuously develops its business technologies and skills while leveraging the creativity of its employees, recognizing human resources as the most important asset in achieving its goals.

İş Leasing embraces a human rights-respecting approach for its employees and all stakeholders it interacts with, aiming to protect fundamental human rights across society. In this regard, it aims to create a contemporary, human rights-respecting, egalitarian, inclusive, and fair working environment without discrimination based on religion, language, race, gender, or sect.

Request, Suggestion, and Complaint Mechanism

İş Leasing values the feedback of its customers, business partners, and other stakeholders and aims to continuously improve the quality of its services by taking into consideration all requests, suggestions, and complaints. For this reason, the company provides a mechanism through which requests, suggestions, and complaints can be easily communicated.

Through the “Contact Us/Environmental and Social Complaints, Requests, and Suggestions” platform (Environmental and Social Complaints, Requests and Suggestions) the company collects complaints, carefully review the feedback received, and develops solution-oriented approaches. During this process, İş Leasing is committed to protecting the confidentiality of complaints and suggestions, ensuring transparency in responses, and addressing all feedback as quickly as possible to enhance customer and employee satisfaction and improve service quality.

Corporate Social Responsibility

İş Leasing has identified as one of its primary objectives to engage with all stakeholders through people-centered social responsibility projects and to contribute to society in the most meaningful way possible. The company is enhancing its competitiveness in international markets through the aforementioned projects and ensuring that employees play a more active role in production processes. Social responsibility, one of the cornerstones of sustainable development, is reinforced through projects that add value to society, particularly in areas such as education, health, and the environment. Since its inception, İş Leasing has supported individual development through various CSR projects aimed at providing both economic and social benefits to society.

• Access to Education through the Reading Generations Library
With the Reading Generations Library established for students at Akıncı Mehmet Öztürk Middle School in Artuklu, Mardin, İş Leasing aims to increase educational opportunities and provide students with broader access.

• Full Support for High-Quality Education with the “Do not Throw Away, Donate” Project
Through the “Donate and Give” project, İş Leasing donated electronic waste equipment to the Turkey Education Volunteers Foundation (TEGV), and the proceeds from the donation were used to cover the education expenses of seven children. This project, carried out in collaboration with the Turkish Information Technology Industries Association (TÜBİSAD), has contributed to children's access to quality education.

• Running for Good at the Istanbul Marathon
İş Leasing supports social and community solidarity by participating in the Istanbul Marathon every year with different NGOs.

• Bringing Hope to Children with Hope Café and KAÇUV
İş Leasing, in collaboration with the Hope for Children with Cancer Foundation (KAÇUV), has strengthened social solidarity by providing financial and moral support to families whose children are at risk of interrupting their treatment due to financial difficulties, thereby ensuring the continuity of their treatment.

Memberships and Initiatives

İş Leasing develops partnerships, participates in international organizations and initiatives, and plays an active role in setting industry standards to achieve common goals related to the development of sectoral activities and sustainability priorities.

The company strives to understand the expectations of various stakeholder groups, manage this process effectively, and integrate best practices in the industry into its business operations. Believing in the importance of cooperation, joint value creation, and experience sharing in sustainability, İş Leasing actively participates in national and international platforms to expand its sphere of influence and increase its knowledge base.

National and international initiatives with which İş Leasing cooperates in the field of sustainability:

United Nations Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs)

United Nations Global Compact

Business World and Sustainable Development Association (SKD Turkey)

30% Club

Turkey Corporate Governance Association

İş Leasing Sustainability Governance Structure

At İş Leasing, sustainability governance is structured to include the Board of Directors, the Corporate Governance Committee, the General Manager, and the Sustainability Committee. In line with its sustainability goals, İş Leasing has established a Sustainability Working Group that reports to the Sustainability Committee with the aim of managing environmental and social risks, identifying and controlling the economic, environmental, and social impacts arising from financial leasing activities, and creating an effective communication platform within the company. The Working Group aims to effectively manage direct and indirect economic, environmental, and social risks. The responsibility for developing and implementing sustainability activities is carried out through the Sustainability Committee.

By adopting sustainability as its strategic focus, İş Leasing has embraced a comprehensive sustainability management system.

This structure was established to effectively manage and implement İş Leasing's sustainability goals and strategies, and to ensure the connection between sustainability and corporate governance.

İş Leasing's Contribution to Sustainable Development Goals

As İş Leasing, we continue to create added value by integrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into our processes. The activities we have undertaken in this context are directly and indirectly linked to 7 SDGs.

Gender Equality

In recruitment processes, equal opportunities are provided to all candidates without discrimination based on gender, marital status, or other similar factors. In addition, membership in the WEPs promotes gender equality and empowers women in the workplace.

Accessible and Clean Energy

Investments are made in renewable energy and energy efficiency to reduce direct and indirect environmental impacts. These investments contribute to clean energy production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

Decent Jobs and Economical Development

Financial leasing provided to SMEs and women entrepreneurs supports both environmental and social sustainability. This support also contributes to the creation of additional employment. The company has also achieved a first by being the first in the sector to provide syndication.

Industry, Innovativeness, and Infrastructure

The focus of financial leasing activities on various areas such as infrastructure, modernization, and technology-driven projects forms the foundation for sustainable development and growth. Ensuring energy and resource efficiency is crucial for the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Decreasing Inequalities

Supporting women entrepreneurs, financing projects that are disadvantaged in the region, and providing support to those who cannot access financial services contribute to reducing economic and social inequality.

Climate Action

Renewable energy, energy efficiency, circular economy, and environmentally friendly infrastructure projects are among the investments aimed at reducing the negative effects of climate change. Thanks to an environmental and social risk management approach, investments are made with climate risks in mind.

Partnerships for Goals

Financial leasing solutions are offered for sustainable development goals through various national and international partnerships. In addition, social benefit and development are supported through social responsibility projects, memberships, and collaborations.