Sustainability Criteria of Cleantech Invest AG
The Cleantech Invest AG solely invests in companies that offer technologies or services which make a major contribution to environmental and climate protection. The analysis of an investment follows the concept of sustainability which consists of economical, ecological and social criteria. The concept orients itself amongst other to the Frankfurt-Hohenheimer guidelines. An infringement to these sustainability criteria results in the exclusion from the investment process.
Initially a positive selection is effectuated which is predominantly based on industry affiliation. Companies from the following industries are considered for investment:
- Renewable Energies (Wind, Solar, Biogas, etc.)
- Recycling & Waste treatment
- Energy Storage
- Water- & Wastewater treatment / Water efficiency
- Energy- & Resource efficiency
- New Materials
- Climate Protection & Carbon Credits
- Renewable Resources
- Climate preserving mobility
- Climate preserving agriculture and forestry
Affiliation to another industry is possible if the company makes a major contribution to environmental and climate protection through its products and/or services.
Subsequently, a negative selection is effectuated which mainly encompasses social criteria. The following criteria result in an exclusion from the investment process:
- Disregard of human rights
- Discrimination by reason of ethnical origin, religious affiliation or gender
- Disregard of the rights of employees
- Child labour
- Constriction of the rights of stock owners
- Lack of transparency in supply chain
- Animal experiments
- Tobacco
- Military
- Nuclear Energy
- Infringement of Environmental Standards
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