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‘STRONG PERFORMANCE OF OUR TOTAL RETURN INDEX, WHICH IS UP 63.6% SO FAR THIS YEAR’ REDUCING CARBON FOOTPRINTS Users of the products and services sold by the constituents of iClima index can reduce their carbon footprint based on several measures. For example, ‘Scope 1’ is defined as direct emissions from a company’s facilities and vehicles. In our EV solutions subsegments, we have companies such as Workhorse or Aptiv that could help an e-commerce player embrace zero carbon emission delivery solutions based on electric trucks, or EV makers such as Tesla to reduce the emissions of the company’s own fleet of cars. ‘Scope 2’ is defined as indirect emissions embedded in the energy sourced by a company. This is where many companies have been able to lower emissions, by sourcing electricity from renewable sources. iClima’s benchmark has several global and more local asset owners of renewable energy projects including Iberdrola, NextEra Energy, and Orsted, among others. Finally, ‘Scope 3’ are emissions from both upstream and downstream activities, such as emissions from goods and services purchased, business travel, waste generated in the company’s operations, emissions that take place in the use of the products sold and end of life treatment of the products sold. Although Scope 3 is the hardest measure to assess, it provides the most accurate picture of a company’s carbon footprint, and therefore the true extent of their emissions avoidance. LOOKING AHEAD The time has come for the world to quantify CO2e avoidance, and we hope to contribute to this task by providing our own framework of potential CO2e avoidance through the companies in our index. We are stepping on the shoulders of the great minds behind Project Drawdown and other thought leaders to provide our own carbon avoidance benchmark, and we hope CO2e avoided emissions will become a widely used metric in the battle against global warming. Gabriela Herculano is the founder of the iClima Global Decarbonsiation Enablers UCITS ETF. When you trade ETFs your capital is at risk. (1) Source: The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics, commissioned by the Transition Pathway Initiative, 2020 (2) Source: UN Environment Programme Emissions Gap Report 2019 (3) Source: (Avoided Emissions Framework, 2019) (4) Year to date in sterling terms, as of 2 December 2020 More information on iClima Global Decarbonisation Enablers UCITS ETF here > To buy this trust login to your EQi account iClima Global Decarbonisation Enablers UCITS ETF (CLMA) - IE00BNC1F287 Important Information: Communications issued in the UK The content in this document is issued by HANetf Limited (“HANetf”), an appointed representative of Mirabella Advisers LLP, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA FRN 606792). HANetf is registered in England and Wales with registration number 10697042. 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