Overview
The Jupiter Ecology Fund has been investing since 1988 in companies focused on solving environmental challenges such as climate change and natural capital depletion. These companies drive positive real-world impacts by enabling the transition to a more sustainable world, and by doing so they offer investors structural growth opportunities.
Our longstanding philosophy is that as environmental issues become more ever more pivotal to global development, so too do environmental solutions in their marketplaces, providing a potential source of long-term investment returns.
Ecology: the relationship of living things to their environment and each other
Why Jupiter?
Jupiter is an active fund manager with a record of commitment to sustainable investing dating back more than 30 years. It launched its first environmental-focused fund in 1988. It has been a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment since 2008.
| 1988 | Jupiter Ecology fund launched |
| 1998 | UK SIF (the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association) |
| 2000 | CDP. Jupiter founder signatory to the Carbon Disclosure Project (now called CDP) in 2000 |
| 2001 | EUROSIF: European SRI Transparency code |
| 2008 | PRI. (Formerly Principles for Responsible Investment). Jupiter has been a signatory since 2008 |
| 2010 | UK Stewardship Code signatory Investment 2020 |
| 2012 | 30% Club |
| 2014 | Investor Forum Membership |
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| 2023 | Jupiter ecology fund celebrates its 35th anniversary |
1988
- Jupiter Ecology fund launched
1998
- UK SIF (the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association)
2000
- CDP. Jupiter founder signatory to the Carbon Disclosure Project (now called CDP) in 2000
2001
- EUROSIF: European SRI Transparency code
2008
- PRI. (Formerly Principles for Responsible Investment). Jupiter has been a signatory since 2008
2010
- UK Stewardship Code signatory Investment 2020
2012
- 30% Club
2014
- Investor Forum Membership
2016
- Green Bond Principles (GBP)
- Women in Finance Charter
- The Hampton Alexander Review 2016
2017
- Diversity project
- A4S Accounting for Sustainability – CFO Leadership Network
- EMpower Mentoring scheme
- RE100 initiative
2018
- Japan Stewardship Code Signatory
- PLC annual report meets Task force on Climate related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) recommendations
- LGPS Investment Code of Transparency
2019
- Climate Action 100+ Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)*
- Global Investor Statement to Governments on Climate Change signatory
- Workforce Disclosure Initiative
* https://www.iigcc.org/about-us/our-members/
2020
- FAIRR Initiative
- Healthy Markets Coalition
2021
- Finance for Biodiversity Pledge
- Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative
- UN Global Compact
- Good Work Coalition
- Forest Carbon Initiative
Why environmental solutions investing?
Finding solutions
The organisations we invest in address the profound challenges of climate change and natural capital depletion. The economy is embedded in the biosphere and our biosphere is facing severe degradation.
Why Jupiter Ecology Fund?
Active, specialist, collaborative, long-term horizon.
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Sensor-based sorting machines for recycling
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Biomaterials
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Heating & cooling efficiencies
Examples are for illustrative purposes only and are not a recommendation to buy or sell. The views expressed are those of the fund manager at the time of publication and may change in the future. Source: company data as at 01.05.23.
About the ‘climate stripes’: The climate warming stripes graphic depicts annual mean global temperatures (1850-2018, from World Meteorological Organization data), said to have been produced for the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) provisional State of the Climate report. The use of the graphic represents Jupiter’s firm-wide, public commitment to playing its part in actively addressing one of the greatest challenges facing our planet. Source/credit: Climate scientist Ed Hawkins, University of Reading, UK. Data values are visualised using colour rather than locations of points on a graph. Horizontal scale is time, from 1850 (left) to 2018 (right). Data is global (not for a locality). Use of the graphic does not imply endorsement of any product or service by its creator. Graphic used under licence: Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International — CC BY-SA 4.0
Reporting on the impact of our investments
Jupiter Ecology Fund seeks to invest in companies whose core products and services address global sustainability challenges. Our annual Impact Report sets out our thinking on how they affect the planet and society.
COP26
Is investor sentiment nudging the overall regulatory picture or is it the other way round? Jupiter’s Jon Wallace talks on the efficacy of political input and the legacy of COP26 with Citywire.