Climate Change Data

Digital DPM - Open Arch ETF ESG 6+

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2022, 2022-12-30 to 2023-03-31)

Reporting Period: 2022

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Climate mitigation
  • Adjustment to climate change
  • Protection of biodiversity
  • Sustainable use and protection of water and maritime resources
  • Transition to a circular economy
  • Avoidance and reduction of environmental pollution
  • Protection of healthy ecosystems
  • Sustainable land use
  • Compliance with recognized labour law standards
  • Employment safety and health protection
  • Appropriate remuneration, fair working conditions, diversity, and training and development opportunities
  • Trade union rights and freedom of assembly
  • Guarantee of adequate product safety, including health protection
  • Application of the same requirements to entities in the supply chain
  • Inclusive projects or consideration of the interests of communities and social minorities
  • Tax honesty
  • Anti-corruption measures
  • Sustainability management by the board
  • Board remuneration based on sustainability criteria
  • The facilitation of whistleblowing
  • Employee rights guarantees
  • Data protection guarantees
  • Disclosure of information

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Sustainability risks (environmental, social, or governance events) that could negatively impact investment value.
  • Risks from natural disasters exacerbated by lack of attention to sustainability.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Consideration of sustainability risks in addition to usual financial data during investment decisions.
  • ESG criteria integrated throughout investment research, including identification of global sustainability trends and financially relevant ESG issues.
  • Special scrutiny of risks from climate change consequences or violations of internationally recognized guidelines (UN Global Compact, ILO core labour standards, UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises).
  • Use of a database-based software solution incorporating ESG data from other research companies and MorgenFund research results.
  • ESG monitoring of investments made after ESG-integrated analysis.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Extreme weather events (heat waves, droughts, floods, storms, hailstorms, forest fires, avalanches)
  • Long-term climate change (decreasing snow, changed precipitation, unstable weather, rising sea levels, changes in ocean currents, winds, land productivity, reduced water availability, ocean acidification, global warming)
Transition Risks
  • Bans and restrictions
  • Phasing out of fossil fuels
  • Other political measures related to the transition to a low-carbon economy
  • Technological change linked to the transition to a low-carbon economy
  • Changes in customer preferences and behaviour

Reporting Period: 2022-12-30 to 2023-03-31

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:267.35 tCO2e per million EUR invested (Carbon Footprint)
Carbon Intensity:689.81 (weighted average carbon intensity scope 1+2+3)

ESG Focus Areas

  • Climate change mitigation
  • Corporate governance
  • Social norms

Environmental Achievements

  • 99.85% of investments aligned with environmental and social characteristics; 21.39% were sustainable investments (as defined by Article 2(17) of EU Regulation 2019/2088).

Social Achievements

  • 99.85% of investments aligned with environmental and social characteristics; Invested in target funds that avoided issuers with high severity of norm violations (corporate governance, human and labor rights, safety, business ethics).

Governance Achievements

  • Invested primarily in Article 8 and Article 9 funds (as defined in SFDR), indicating adherence to good governance practices; Avoided issuers with high severity of norm violations.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Data limitations for ESG assessment; Determining Taxonomy alignment for sovereign bonds.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Used data from multiple providers, public sources, and internal assessments; Developed a proprietary ESG valuation methodology; Look-through approach for target fund holdings (subject to data availability).

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: SFDR (EU Regulation 2019/2088), EU Taxonomy

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Goal 1: No poverty
  • Goal 2: No hunger
  • Goal 3: Health and well-being
  • Goal 4: Quality education
  • Goal 5: Gender equality
  • Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation
  • Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy
  • Goal 10: Reduce inequality
  • Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
  • Goal 12: Sustainable consumption and production
  • Goal 13: Climate action
  • Goal 14: Life under water
  • Goal 15: Life on land

Sustainable investments contributed to at least one of the UN SDGs with environmental and/or social objectives.