6 pillars of the economy to making a positive impact with your investments

Impact pillar 1: Clean energy

Replacing fossil fuels with renewables

Energy accounts for the lion’s share of greenhouse gas emissions, and overlaps with and supports the other pillars. Therefore, clean energy is key to reversing climate change and a significant component to reducing the human impact on the environment. The focus lies on electricity, hydrogen and heat generated from renewable resources and technologies, enabling not only a reliable but also smarter and greener grid.

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1 https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/311844/umfrage/globale-treibhausgasemissionen-nach-quellgruppe/
2 https://www.statista.com/statistics/273273/world-electricity-generation-by-energy-source/

Impact pillar 2: Building technology

Construction with an eye on efficiency

Residential and commercial buildings account for a large share of global energy consumption.

We search for technologies and materials that lower the environmental impact of a building over its entire lifecycle, from site selection through design and material choices, construction, operation, maintenance and demolition. The focus is on minimizing energy use in buildings (especially for heating and cooling) through energy-efficient measures and adopting renewable energy to meet remaining energy needs.

Sources

3 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/why-the-buildings-of-the-future-are-key-to-an-efficient-energy-ecosystem/
4 http://www.euenergycentre.org/images/unep%20info%20sheet%20-%20ee%20buildings.pdf

Impact pillar 3: Resource-efficient industry

Making processes simpler and cleaner

Resource-efficient industries play a vital role in moving towards a more environmentally friendly world. Clean and efficient production processes will reduce energy and materials consumption while increasing the output needed to cope with rising demand. Importantly, digital transformation is paving the way for new approaches to development, production, and the entire logistics chain.

Sources

5 https://www.wri.org/insights/4-charts-explain-greenhouse-gas-emissions-countries-and-sectors
6 https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

Impact pillar 4: Clean water

Letting the right kind of liquidity flow

Rising water consumption as well as water pollution is a global problem. Challenges include not only the delivery or treatment of drinking water in arid regions, but also the maintenance of the existing infrastructure in industrialized countries. We focus on companies providing infrastructure and technological solutions for efficient water usage, wastewater treatment, as well as purification and desalination.

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7 https://www.suez.com/en/who-we-are/a-committed-group/2020-integrated-report
8 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/drinking-water
9 https://ourworldindata.org/water-access

Impact pillar 5: Low-emission transportation

Traveling without shame

The logistics and transportation sector is a significant contributor to global emissions and pollution. We concentrate on companies that shape the future of mobility by offering innovative solutions and key technologies to better connect a global and converging world through improved logistics as well as low-emission transportation that saves time and resources.

Source

10 https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-transport

Impact pillar 6: Lifecycle management

Planning disposal before production

Reusing resources and reducing waste is increasingly important. We focus on companies that offer recycling solutions or integrate product lifecycle concepts from inception, through engineering design and manufacturing, to service and disposal of the manufactured products into their processes.

Sources

11 https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/311844/umfrage/globale-treibhausgasemissionen-nach-quellgruppe/
12 https://www.statista.com/statistics/916625/global-generation-of-municipal-solid-waste-forecast/
13 https://datatopics.worldbank.org/what-a-waste/
14 https://datatopics.worldbank.org/what-a-waste/trends_in_solid_waste_management.html
15 Science Advances  19 Jul 2017: Vol. 3, no. 7, e1700782, Roland Geyer, Jenna R. Jambeck, Kara Lavender Law, “Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made” https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782