Specialists launch Active Net Zero Clean Energy Index to tackle greenwashing

Methodology pioneered by Longspur and Radnor

Longspur Research and Radnor Capital Partners have launched the Active Net Zero Clean Energy index to allow investors to measure the performance of companies actively enabling climate solutions.

The 'Active Net Zero' methodology has been pioneered by Longspur and Radnor to evaluate companies based on their actual performance towards the energy transition in a systematic, transparent and repeatable framework. This pan-European index eliminates greenwashing by penalising fossil fuel activities and focuses on actual achievement and positive contribution, "rather than promises for the future". "What we found when looking out there was that a lot of the major indices are focused on companies that will be compliant with a net zero outcome but not necessarily driving that outcome," ...