Scientific Beta

Money Management: "Smart beta index provider, Scientific Beta to offer a low carbon option for its flagship multi-smart-factor indices. The Low Carbon option aimed to filter companies with high carbon intensity, which led to considerably reducing the indirect contribution to climate change of investment (the financed emissions) and which encouraged a transition to a low carbon economy."

Money Management 18/09/2019

"(...) Smart beta index provider, Scientific Beta to offer a low carbon option for its flagship multi-smart-factor indices. The Low Carbon option aimed to filter companies with high carbon intensity, which led to considerably reducing the indirect contribution to climate change of investment (the financed emissions) and which encouraged a transition to a low carbon economy. It would also help exclude companies that fell short of standards of responsible business conduct and were involved in activities where there was a conflict with global environmental, social and governance (ESG) norms. (...)"