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OUR SUSTAINABILITY GOALS – HANDELSBANKEN FONDER p
rogress that our stakeholders can follow and evaluate the results we achieve. The goals apply to our funds, and have been set in two main areas: aligning our investment portfolios with the Paris Agreement goals and stepping up our contribution to achieving the SDGs. The climate transition not only demands that we shift away from carbon-intensive technologies, but it requires major investments in solutions in areas like renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements. Therefore, we have set a challenging goal of net-zero emissions from all investment portfolios by 2040. We will work in two primary dimensions – reducing emissions in our funds and increasing investments in climate solutions – to achieve this. Climate change is the most urgent issue of our time, but we must not lose sight of the other 16 SDGs. Through our second goal – stepping up our contribution to the 2030 Agenda – we want to maintain a focus on the other challenges facing our world as well. To a great extent, this involves addressing basic human rights and needs, such as the right to education and health care, access to water, financial inclusion, gender equality and inclusion. We aim to step up our contribution to the 2030 Agenda by increasing our investments in companies that offer solutions, in terms of services and products, for achieving the SDGs and through engagement that focuses on achieving results. Setting quantitative targets gives a clear direction, and we will need to make great efforts to deliver on them. This includes strengthening our engagement activities, our analysis methods and our reporting. We will report externally on our results in relation to the targets at least once a year. Ongoing follow-up of the targets will take place in Handelbanken Fonder’s Sustainability Risk Forum, where we already track the funds’ sustainability performance. An important part of our development efforts includes taking part in investor initiatives, such as IIGCC, in order to access recent practices within the investor collective and further evolve. “ We are the first generation that can end poverty, the last that can end climate change.” Ban Ki-moon, Former UN Secretary-General Information about risk Past performance does not predict future returns. The value of the money invested in the fund can increase or decrease and there is no guarantee that all of your invested capital can be redeemed. The fund’s prospectus (“Informations broschyr”), fund rules and KIID are available at handelsbanken.se/funds. 9