Featured Companies
Portfolio 21 invests in companies that are sustainability leaders; all companies must pass our rigorous company evaluation criteria. The following profiles of Portfolio 21 companies represent a sampling of some of our latest environmental research. Companies are continually added to the fund and new profiles will be featured quarterly.
Life Technologies
Life Technologies offers instruments and services to standardize scientific research in the fields of molecular diagnostics, forensics, and genetic research, as well as agricultural and environmental research. The company demonstrates leadership across its largest impact areas by recognizing the ecological impacts of its products, facilitating equipment recycling programs beyond regulatory requirements, and implementing environmental initiatives to improve the efficiency of its facilities.
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L'Oreal
L'Oreal is one of the world's largest cosmetic companies. Within the cosmetics and personal care sector, Portfolio 21 seeks companies that minimize ingredients with impacts on human and environmental health. Companies that demonstrate an ability to reformulate products and increase use of renewable raw materials will ensure availability of resources over the long term. Governments around the world are implementing legislation to restrict controversial chemicals, which also creates regulatory risk for companies in this sector. L'Oreal shows leadership with its eco-design approach, which incorporates indicators on the traceability of ingredients, their reactions in water and air, and their impact on biodiversity.
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Banco Bradesco
Banco Bradesco provides banking and financial products and services throughout Brazil. The company'sretail segment has over 3000 branches, which serve all levels of the population, as well as nearly 6000 branches in partnership with the Brazilian Post Office. Banco Bradesco became a signatory to the Equator Principles in September 2004. The bank promotes and analyzes social and environmental assessments of financed projects in all loan operations, including those not encompassed by the Equator Principles. Bradesco also uses positive screening to identify environmental profit opportunities, including environmental loans, environmental lines of credits and socially responsible investment funds.
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