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Publisher: Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR)
Study of German Federal Environment Ministry reveals: RENIXX World is the most climate friendly capital investment among stock indices
Muenster - A study conducted on behalf of the German Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) has investigated the relation between active climate protection and the choice of capital investments. The volume of greenhouse gas emissions per invested euro was determined for savings products, company shareholdings (share and share certificates, equity funds) as well as bonds and pension funds.
With capital investments in shares, the most climate-friendly investment among the investigated stock indices was in the global stock index for renewable energies, RENIXX World. Whereas the conventional stock index reaches a value of 1,243 gGHG per invested euro (gGHG = grams of greenhouse gas emissions), the average greenhouse gas intensity for an investment in sustainability indices is around 49 per cent less with 632 gGHG per euro. Even more climate friendly is the investigated global stock index for renewable energies, which with 165 gGHG per euro is considerably less than the sustainability stock indices and has an 87 per cent lower greenhouse gas intensity compared to the conventional index. When asked by the IWR, the authors from adelphi confirmed that the stock index for renewable energies is RENIXX World (Renewable Energy Industrial Index).
\"We are delighted that RENIXX World performed so well in the study. This study provides both private and institutional investors with an excellent guide and benchmark in choosing share-based sustainable investments,\" stated IWR Director Dr. Norbert Allnoch in Münster.
You can download the BMU study at:
http://www.klima-und-finanzen.de/fileadmin/dateien/PDF/Der_Carbon_Footprint_von_Kapitalanlagen_10-04-19.pdf
Muenster, 29 April 2010
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About Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR)
In 1996, the International Economic Platform for Renewable Energies (IWR) was established as an independent and private service institution of the renewable energy industry. The IWR focuses on the fields of research, economic and policy consultation as well as media and international networks in the renewable or regenerative energies sector. One main objective of the IWR is to play an instrumental role in introducing and spreading awareness for an industrial, international business profile of the renewable energy industry.
Dr. Norbert Allnoch, Director of the International Economic Platform of Renewable Energies (IWR), 1995, on the definition: "According to our definition, the Renewable Energy Industry is one which takes an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of renewable energy supply (protecting both the climate and resources) and the construction of renewable plants and systems (industry policy for the three areas electricity, heat and fuel."Chronology of the Renewable Energy Industry - Important IWR contributions, including prizes and awards - 2007 Publication of the first structural analysis for a federal state according to the IWR-analysis method for renewable systems engineering and services�(study "Zur Lage der regenerativen Energiewirtschaft in NRW" )2007 International network-contacts:IWR-director Dr. Allnoch speaks with King Harald V. of Norway and �slaug Haga, norwegian minister of energy Presentation of the network / RENIXX in the USA, dialogue with McGinty, environment minister of Pennsylvania2006 IWR starts renewable stock index RENIXX� (