Founded in 2007, with offices in Milan, Munich, London and Paris Ambienta is a leading asset manager entirely focused on investments driven by environmental sustainability key drivers, Resource Efficiency and Pollution Control
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Ambienta is a highly engaged shareholder, leveraging its strong consulting, industrial and sector expertise to support management in capturing new growth opportunities. Its target universe of businesses typically have grown significantly, often under founding families, but today face challenges and see opportunities beyond the reach of their existing operational or geographical footprint. Ambienta supports them to capture this new phase of growth and development through a pan-European investment team, a large network of C-executives and a dedicated value creation team fully dedicated.
We believe environmental sustainability is the greatest opportunity of our generation and we believe investing alongside it will both promote sustainability acceleration and improve financial returns.
We monitor and report our sustainability KPIs and have developed innovative and proprietary methodologies to assess the contribution of public companies to environmental sustainability objectives.
Ambienta Credit focuses entirely on environmental champions by using the same award-winning proprietary methodologies that have ensured the success of Ambienta over the last 15 years: Environmental Impact Analysis “EIA” and ESG in Action, appropriately adapted for credit.
Ambienta Credit takes a flexible approach to investing in credit, with an emphasis on private credit. The division focuses on European environmental sustainability champions regardless of sector, being able to leverage on the expertise of the S&S team and Ambienta’s wider network and platform.
Ambienta operates with a “one firm” culture. Each division or office leader is supported by a like-minded team of international professionals across Europe, all from different backgrounds but with a common and true entrepreneurial spirit, representing a key success driver for the firm.
We hire with intention and look for diverse and talented people willing to grow with the firm.
Environmental sustainability trends, namely Resource Efficiency and Pollution Control, represent a theme that cuts across traditional sectors, shape industries and value chains and ultimately drive risks and opportunities for companies and investors. Sustainability, similarly to digitalization, is and will permeate society for decades to come. Providing sustainable solutions to global environmental issues is a strong source of competitive advantage. Ambienta consistently focuses on understanding and getting ahead of these trends, to foster investment ideas generation, improve local team origination effectiveness, unlock fruitful relationships with entrepreneurs and managers and ultimately deliver strong financial returns for investors across our businesses.
Ambienta’s Sustainability and Strategy team is our dedicated division to both develop investment ideas and support investment cases discussion across our asset classes, and build our proprietary sustainability measurement approaches.
Ambienta’s sustainability leadership goes beyond our investment strategy. We strive to integrate sustainability and ESG management practices into day-to-day operations within our firm and across all our asset classes, while engaging with all our stakeholders, to promote adoption of sustainability-driven best practices.
To do this we developed an award-winning ESG integration programme, the “ESG in Action”, which operates as a risk management and shared value creation tool for the benefit of all stakeholders.
Find out more about our Climate Neutral status and Net Zero Strategy
Certified B Corporations are for-profit companies that use the power of business to build a more inclusive and sustainable economy. They meet high verified standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
In 2020 Ambienta transformed into a Benefit Company as per Italian law, integrating in its articles of incorporation common benefit objectives. It annually publishes its Impact Report to disclose its objectives and the results achieved during the year.
Since 2012 Ambienta is signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investments (UNPRI) which are deeply rooted in our approach to Responsible Investment and ESG integration. Throughout the years, we are proud to have consistently achieved top tier scores well above the median of our peer group. In the 2023 PRI scores, Ambienta has received the highest 5-star rating in 3 out of 5 categories and 4 stars in the remaining two. This is further testament to the success of our sustainability investing approach and our commitment to excellence and industry leadership across these key areas
IIGCC is a leading global investor membership body and the largest one focusing specifically on climate change. As a member of IIGCC, Ambienta aims to contribute directly and through institutional engagement to mobilise capital for the low carbon transition and to ensure resilience to the impacts of a changing climate by collaborating with business, policy makers and fellow investors.
Science-based targets provide companies with a clearly defined path to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement goals. SBTi enables companies to demonstrate leadership on climate action by publicly committing to GHG emission reduction through a robust and transparent framework recognized internationally as a standard and including independent assessment and validation of targets.
Endorsing and adopting the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) represented a natural progression of Ambienta’s commitment to sustainability. On an annual basis we report how we implement these recommendations, taking another step towards increasing transparency on the integration of climate factors, risks and opportunities in the strategy and investment process of the firm.
