Summa Equity
Summa Equity
Establishing the foundation for Biodiversity & Nature work across investment portfolio for impact fund
Summa Equity is a thematic investment firm created to solve global challenges and has to date contributed to this through three funds and 33 investments. The investment focus spans four investment themes: Circularity, Sustainable Food, Energy Transition and Tech-Enabled Resilience. As a frontrunner in impact investing within Private Equity, Summa Equity has early on recognised the need to accelerate efforts within nature and biodiversity and engaged The Footprint Firm to conduct an impact assessment across its investments.
“A forceful response to the escalating and existential environmental crisis.”
Alexander Bjørklund, Impact Manager
Services
- Private equity servicesabout /services/private-equity-servicesPrivate equity services
- Biodiversity & nature impactabout /services/biodiversity-and-nature-impactBiodiversity & nature impact
Industries
- Private equity
The project
Summa Equity sought to conduct a comprehensive nature & biodiversity impact assessment across its portfolio companies as a key step towards developing a strategic and effective response to the global environmental crisis and enable structured work with these topics from both a risk and a value-creation perspective.
Our approach
The Footprint Firm assisted Summa Equity in a two-phased approach:
- A qualitative impact assessment across the value chains of all portfolio companies applying established tools and frameworks from the Science Based Targets Network
- A quantitative impact analysis focused on energy use in the portfolio companies based on Life Cycle Assessment (“LCAs”) in line with the European Commission’s Environmental Footprint (“EF”) method
The impact
The assessments gave Summa Equity a clear and data-backed view of where nature and biodiversity impacts were most concentrated, both across the full portfolio and within individual companies and their value chains. These insights now serve as a strong foundation for prioritising targeted action and delivering measurable reductions in nature and biodiversity-related impacts.
Testimonial
"We believe that a prerequisite for delivering a forceful response to the escalating and existential environmental crisis is to qualify and quantify the nature impacts of our portfolio companies, as this enables strategic decision making."
— Alexander Bjørklund, Impact Manager at Summa Equity