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Responsible Investing

SFDR Disclosure

The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation (SFDR) took effect on 10 March 2021 as part of the EU Action Plan on Sustainable Finance. The SFDR lays down harmonised sustainability related disclosure rules for EU financial market participants and advisors and requires certain sustainability disclosures to be made for financial products which promote environmental or social characteristics (Article 8 SFDR) and funds which have a sustainable investment objective (Article 9 SFDR).

There are different SFDR product categorisations for these sustainability disclosure requirements:

+ Article 6 products: require disclosures relating to the manner in which sustainability risks are integrated into the decision-making process.
+ Article 8 products: promote, among other characteristics, environmental or social characteristics or a combination of those characteristics, provided that the companies in which the investments are made follow good governance practices.
+ Article 9 products: have sustainable investment as their objective

Please refer to EU regulation guidelines for more details: https://www.esma.europa.eu/sections/sustainable-finance

ESG Characteristics

The fund tracks an index which seeks to exclude from the eligible investment universe companies that:
(i) violate, certain commonly accepted international norms and standards, such as the United Nations and OECD guidelines;
(ii) are involved in controversial weapons such as anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions;
(iii) are significantly involved in the tobacco industry;
(iv) are significantly involved in thermal coal activity, such as coal mining and exploration and coal-based power generation;
(v) are significantly involved in unconventional oil and gas exploration/production, unless the company has a carbon emission reduction target set at well-below 2°C or 1.5°C or business ambition for 1.5°C commitment approved by a climate action standard-setting body;
(vi) are significantly involved in conventional oil and gas unless the company has a carbon emission reduction target set at well-below 2°C or 1.5°C or business ambition for 1.5°C commitment approved by a climate action standard-setting body; and/or
(vii) do not meet such other ESG criteria such as significant involvement in small arms, as detailed in the Index methodology.

The Index methodology may be updated from time to time to include additional ESG criteria. For further details on the ESG criteria applied by the Index, please refer to the Index methodology. Visit our ESG Hub to learn more about WisdomTree's ESG approach.