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Global Environment Strategy

Invests in companies enabling the transition to a low-carbon world

Strategy overview

Impact
Have a quantifiable carbon saving impact

Investment Approach
Bespoke bottom-up investment process designed specifically to invest in decarbonisation

Investment Opportunity
Capturing the decarbonisation, disruption and innovation opportunity

Investment Universe
c.US$18 trillion market cap, ~1,700 companies, only 28% overlap with ACWI, 18% by weight

Net Zero Alignment
Investing to help drive a net zero world

Deirdre Cooper
Portfolio Manager
Graeme Baker
Portfolio Manager
Team
Portfolio Manager

The role the strategy can play in portfolios

Combines impact with financial returns

High conviction portfolio providing access to long term structural growth opportunities from sustainable decarbonisation

Diversifies equity exposure

Style complements core, value and high growth, while its alpha stream has been lowly correlated to equity factors

Provides carbon risk hedge

May offer a hedge to your portfolio’s existing carbon risk

Helps journey to decarbonisation

Invests in companies with quantifiable carbon avoided that contribute to sustainable decarbonisation

Investment Philosophy

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The developing environmental sector is complex, and our specialist knowledge and proprietary research helps us to identify the most attractive opportunities

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We believe that an unconstrained, focused approach to identifying the best quality companies in the sector, combined with a long-term investment horizon and active engagement, results in superior outcomes

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Positive and negative externalities will increasingly be priced by the market

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Companies benefitting from new structural growth themes offer the potential to compound returns at above average rates over protracted periods of time

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Market participants systematically underestimate the quantum and persistence of returns in cases where businesses have sustainable long-term competitive advantages, resulting in exploitable inefficiencies

Performance

Portfolio & Holdings

Date as of 30/04/2026
Gross Carbon Avoided
1526.8
Less Scope 1 & 2 Carbon Footprint
34.8
Less Scope 3 Carbon Footprint
559.1
Net Carbon Avoided
All measurements in Tonnes CO2e per $mm invested by the fund
933
Renewable Energy
Measured in megawatt hours per $mm invested
53.4
Based on a related portfolio within the strategy with substantially similar objectives, policies and strategies as those of the services being offered. The portfolio may change significantly over a short space of time. This is not a buy, sell or hold recommendation for any particular security. For further information on Indices and Specific Portfolio Names, please reference the sections here.

Why Ninety One for Global Environment Strategy

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Managed by a team with decades of experience investing in the environmental sector

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Supported by an investment company which has sustainability at its core

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Uses a proprietary method of identifying companies enabling decarbonisation and a comprehensive way of quantifying carbon risk and carbon avoided

Key facts

  • Asset Subclass

    Global Equity

  • Currency

    USD

  • Inception date

    01/09/2018

  • Team

    Sustainable equity team

  • Geographical Focus

    Global

  • ESG Classification

    Impact

  • Comparative Benchmark

    MSCI AC World Index NDR

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