Impact Investing

Ferd Impact Investing invests in early-stage climate tech companies that have the potential to deliver both a positive climate and environment impact and a solid risk-adjusted return. We primarily invest through funds and occasionally make direct investments, the latter mainly as co-investments with our fund managers.

Here you can read our latest Impact report and explore our portfolio.

We invest across all key climate sectors for a net-zero future

Industry

Sectors related to goods and raw materials that we use; e.g. sustainable cement, plastics, steel, textiles and packaging​.

Food and land use

Sectors related to nutrients and resources that gives us life; e.g. proteins from the ocean, regenerative farming and food waste reduction.

Built environment

Sectors related to the urban environment; e.g. building materials, heating, cooling and energy optimization​.

Transportation

Sectors related to the movement of people and goods; e.g. EVs, charging, battery technology and shipping.

Energy

Sectors related to the electrons that fuels us; e.g. solar, wind, energy storage and enabling renewables software.

Climate management

Sectors related to management of climate risk; e.g. sustainability reporting, earth and ocean observation and climate risk platforms.

Carbon

Sectors related to the avoidance and removal of carbon; e.g. carbon offset marketplaces, carbon removal technology and CCS.

Sectors related to goods and raw materials that we use; e.g. sustainable cement, plastics, steel, textiles and packaging​.

Sectors related to nutrients and resources that gives us life; e.g. proteins from the ocean, regenerative farming and food waste reduction.

Sectors related to the urban environment; e.g. building materials, heating, cooling and energy optimization​.

Sectors related to the movement of people and goods; e.g. EVs, charging, battery technology and shipping.

Sectors related to the electrons that fuels us; e.g. solar, wind, energy storage and enabling renewables software.

Sectors related to management of climate risk; e.g. sustainability reporting, earth and ocean observation and climate risk platforms.

Sectors related to the avoidance and removal of carbon; e.g. carbon offset marketplaces, carbon removal technology and CCS.

Investment strategy

We identify funds and companies with a significant climate impactpotential.

To identify opportunities, we stay up to date through newsletters and research. We attend climate- related events and prioritize introductory meetings with both emerging and established fund managers.​​

We are continuously striving to be an active impact investor, in order to gain access to attractive investment opportunities.

Screening and due diligence

Impact is one of our key investment criteria when we screen investment opportunities and perform our due diligence.​​

For funds and companies, respectively, we have developed impact scorecards, inspired by approaches used by other renowned impact investors andinternationally recognized frameworks.

We evaluate whether there is a match between the investment opportunities and our investment strategy and whether there is enough impact potential for us to invest.

Active ownership and reporting

We require all our funds and companiesto report on impact. The level of reporting among funds and companiesin the portfolio varies, and for those thathave a less mature approach to impactreporting, we encourage and assist inthe further development of this.

We aggregate and summarize resultsfrom the portfolio in our annual impactreport, which was published for thefirst time in 2022.

Since 2023 we also report on CO2emissions across the portfolio.

We do not require our investmentsto be SFDR Article 9 compliant aswe acknowledge that the reportingrequirements are tough especially forearly-stage companies*.

Impact Report