Climate change is a key issue on political agendas across the globe, in turn creating new investment opportunities in low carbon sectors. FTSE has...
launched new capital investment tools to help investors identify and gain exposure to the rapidly growing environmental technology sector. The pioneering move comes at a time when climate change and environmental concerns are at a global high and clean technology opportunities are of increasing interest to investors worldwide.
The new tools aim to support global capital markets’ response to developing a low carbon economy. They include the world’s first global environmental markets industry classification system, designed to allow companies to be classified by sector and sub sector according to the environmental products and services they provide. In addition, seven new equity indices which use the new environmental markets classification have also been created.
The introduction of the classification system allows those companies who provide essential environmental products, activities and services, to be identified more easily, facilitating a peer to peer comparison on a global, regional and pan-regional basis. The system also provides a basis for the creation of sector-based investment products such as ETFs, mutual funds and derivatives products.
Source: ETFWorld.com – FTSE
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