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The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) requires financial undertakings (e.g. asset managers) to explain what indicators they use to measure the attainment of the sustainable investment objective (for Article 9 funds) or E/S characteristics (for Article 8 funds). The explanation ought to be included e.g. in pre-contractual disclosures for Article 9 funds.
Upright has created a template answer for providing this explanation as part of SFDR pre-contractual disclosures when using Upright data. The explanation, provided below, assumes that net impact is used as part of the binding elements of the investment strategy, but the answer could be easily worded differently to also support other binding elements.
Attainment of the sustainable investment objective is measured by a combination of impact metrics that comprehensively capture investment's impacts on society, knowledge, health, and the environment, considering both positive and adverse impacts.
The metrics are based on the . The table below provides an overview of the top-level impact categories included in the framework.
Society
Taxes
Society
Jobs
Society
Societal infrastructure
Society
Equality
Society
Societal stability
Knowledge
Scarce human capital
Knowledge
Knowledge infrastructure
Knowledge
Creating knowledge
Knowledge
Distributing knowledge
Health
Physical diseases
Health
Mental diseases
Health
Nutrition
Health
Relationships
Health
Meaning & Joy
Environment
GHG emissions
Environment
Non-GHG emissions
Environment
Biodiversity
Environment
Scarce natural resources
Environment
Waste