Environment - Positive Economy™ Edmond de Rothschild Funds (PEERF)

Positive Economy™

Through our work with BeCitizen, a first-tier environmental strategy consultancy, we apply « Positive Economy »™ principles to our various activities.

BeCitizen applies this principle to five key issues, which represent both risks to growth and opportunities for growth :

Energy :

Companies, buildings, infrastructures and local governments can become energy-positive by generating power through biofuels, recovered heat and electricity that they can then sell to other economic entities.

Climate change :

Companies and local governments can become not just carbon-neutral, but carbon-negative, thus generating value in the form of emission permits that can be traded on voluntary or regulated markets.

Resources and waste :

Economic actors who were net consumers yesterday can become net producers tomorrow, with positive balances for water, soil and matter. Resources, which had been a cost item, can become a revenue item for companies that are able, for example, to recycle waste and supply clean water to the local community.

Biodiversity :

Economic activities can promote biodiversity. Companies and local governments can roll out solutions to cut costs and risks incurred by the loss of biodiversity and to foster greater biodiversity.

Health and toxicity :

Economic activities that once generated pollution will generate a positive health / toxicity balance. The houses, cars and factories of tomorrow will actually clean up the environment.