• The environment and climate change

    Newton is committed to addressing environmental and climate-related risks and opportunities through a comprehensive approach that encompasses all aspects of our business.
  • Resource conservation

    With our parent company BNY Mellon, we have implemented a number of energy-efficiency projects such as lighting control and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) upgrades.
  • The wider community

    We place sustainability, education and diversity at the core of the projects we sponsor within the wider community.

The environment and climate change

We welcome and support the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations, not only as a means of gaining better transparency on climate-related risks to investments, but also as part of a wider movement to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius. This is why Newton Investment Management became one of the first investment management firms to publicly disclose its environmental impact through our first TCFD report in November 2018. The climate disclosures made in our TCFD reports are a board matter overseen by our chair.

Newton is a signatory to the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, an international group of asset managers committed to supporting the goal of net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, in line with global efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Specifically, we have set an interim target of having 50% of our financed emissions covered by credible transition plans by 2030, and a final target of having 100% of our financed emissions covered by 2040. While all our assets are committed in the long run, this is not a race to align assets under management with net zero, but rather a focus on aligning financed emissions with net-zero pathways.

Our approach, in common with that taken by a number of our industry peers, follows the methodology of the Science Based Targets initiative for financial institutions. This clear, science-based approach focuses on how much and how quickly companies need to reduce their carbon emissions to prevent the worst effects of climate change. We endorse this approach over those that promote a linear year-on-year carbon-intensity reduction path, as we believe this is a more credible approach to meeting our net-zero goals.

We have also taken various steps to reduce our own carbon footprint. Via our parent company, BNY Mellon, we use a three-part approach to achieving carbon neutrality: reducing energy use and related greenhouse-gas emissions; procuring renewable electricity; and using carbon offsets to compensate for the remaining emissions in our footprint. BNY Mellon has committed to maintain carbon neutrality in its operations through to 2025, and has also set a greenhouse-gas emissions reduction target in line with a well-below 2 degrees Celsius science-based target methodology.

Resource conservation

With our parent company BNY Mellon, we have implemented a number of energy-efficiency projects such as lighting control and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) upgrades.

We are committed to efficient water use, and plan to further reduce the use of water in our building operations by 2025. With BNY Mellon, we issued a goal to divert 80% of our waste from landfills, and plan to divert 100% of technology equipment from landfills by 2025. We have also worked to reduce our paper usage, and have comprehensive paper recycling and offset schemes in place.

2025
goals include:
80%
of waste away from landfills
100%
of technology equipment away from landfills

The wider community

Newton is a founding supporter of the charity The Centre for Financial Capability, and is a founding member of its ground-breaking collaborative project KickStart Money, which aims to take financial education to almost 20,000 UK primary school children, catalysing a movement to build a savings culture for the future.

We also support various organisations and activities that advance the quality of life where our employees work and live. Under BNY Mellon’s Community Impact Programme, our employees are entitled to three paid days of volunteering every year. We have a matching policy for individual donations and fundraising.

Wider community

BNY Mellon – putting the Future FirstSM

  • Our parent company BNY Mellon is committed to putting the future first by using its global reach, influence and resources not just to power success today, but to help safeguard the future. Its approach, termed Future First, starts with its own ESG practices and conduct referred to as Enterprise ESG, and extends to the way it serves clients through ESG and responsible investment client solutions. As a key participant of the global financial system, BNY Mellon believes it is part of its responsibility to help build the infrastructure that can facilitate investing with an ESG, responsible and sustainable lens.
  • Newton shares BNY Mellon’s five-year Enterprise ESG goals, which are built around the three pillars of culture and purpose, responsible business, and global citizenship. They include commitments to drive a culture of inclusion and promote diverse representation, support a culture of wellbeing, and maintain commitment to environmental sustainability.
  • As part of BNY Mellon, we also adhere to the BNY Mellon Code of Conduct, which provides a practical set of principles that guide all our business decisions. All employees must certify through an annual attestation programme that they have read and understood all Code of Conduct provisions.

The BNY Mellon Code of Conduct can be viewed at:

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