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The Fund does not currently commit to invest in transitional and enabling activities and the minimum share of investments in transitional and enabling activities is thus 0%.

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*For the purpose of these graphs, ‘sovereign bonds’ consist of all sovereign exposures.

6. Monitoring of environmental or social characteristics

What sustainability indicators are used to measure the attainment of each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by this financial product?

The Fund will invest in early-stage companies, typically pre-revenue, with potential to create meaningful impact within one of the defined themes. This forms the basis for how the Fund tracks progress vs. impact, as described below.

In order to assess the company’s path to impact, the Fund will rely on a milestone analysis (as opposed to hard financial & impact metrics, which are limited or non-existent at an early stage). The milestone analysis gives perspectives on where the company needs to be for its current stage of funding, based on i) commercial traction, ii) product & offering, iii) technology, iv) value chain, iv) eco-system, and v) execution. The milestone analysis also provides frames for where the company needs to be in order to unlock subsequent stages of funding and ultimately generate impact. The Fund’s perspectives on the team’s ability to execute on future milestones will be critical in this regard as well as other deal criteria mentioned above.

For investments in climate & nature, the Fund will largely rely on Climate Brick[4], a publicly available manual for scaling climate tech solutions. For investments in health & wellbeing, the Fund is unaware of an equivalent robust manual to Climate Brick. However, the Fund will conduct a corresponding milestone analysis case-by-case, informed by industry insights and perspectives from EQT Life Sciences.

The milestone analysis forms the basis for how the Fund track progress vs. impact potential (aligned to the Impact Themes). During the ownership phase, the Fund will monitor the following:

A. that the impact thesis is intact (by following up on and confirming the founder’s continued ambitions to deliver on targets in line with E/S with no major pivots that could lead to materially reduced impact), and

B. the company’s progress vs. milestones according to Climate Brick (as a proxy for succeeding in its path to impact) or corresponding milestone analyses.

An intact impact thesis and development in accordance with milestones, gives an assurance that the company is on track to generate revenue & meaningful impact.

Since the Fund will invest in early-stage companies, typically pre-revenue, the impact of the companies will generally not yet be measurable. Hence, above methodology is assessed to appropriately measure progress towards the Fund’s objectives.

For portfolio companies that advance to scale, the Fund may introduce impact KPI tracking of the companies’ impact, in collaboration with the management team.

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[4] climatebrick.com launched April 2024 and updated versions in the years to come or equivalent robust frameworks.

How are the environmental or social characteristics and the sustainability indicators monitored throughout the lifecycle of the fund, and how do the related internal or external control mechanisms work?

The Fund will monitor portfolio companies’ path to impact on an ad hoc basis, as part of supporting founders. On an annual basis, the Fund will summarize the milestone analysis described above as part of a portfolio review, which will be based on input from the management teams and other available information, such as investor updates. This analysis will further steer how the Fund supports founders with value creation support in the most relevant areas.

A key goal of the Fund is to meaningfully contribute to founders bringing novel solutions from lab-scale to market, with the ultimate potential of achieving impact. The Fund aims to be a value-added partner to founders by leveraging its domain knowledge and network across sectors such as energy, green industrials, transportation & logistics, food & ag, healthcare, digital technology, and life sciences – all of which are linked to the Fund’s Impact Themes.

Where possible, the Fund will seek to actively influence the portfolio companies in ways that it can, through, for instance, offering advice to their founders, prepare action plans or advice on governance practices.

7. Methodologies

What are the methodologies to measure the attainment of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the financial product?

In order to measure progress against the Impact Themes during the holding period, the Fund will consult with the portfolio companies in regular intervals and will carry out further checks in order to identify potential issues with such progress. In order to assess the company’s progress the Fund will rely on a milestone analysis (as further described above in section 6). Thus, for investments in climate & nature, the Fund will monitor progress vs. milestones mainly according to Climate Brick (or equivalent robust framework). For investments in health & wellbeing, the Fund will conduct a corresponding milestone analysis case-by-case, informed by industry insights and perspectives from EQT Life Sciences.

8. Data sources and processing

What are the data sources used to attain each of the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the financial product? What are the measures taken in order to ensure data quality? How is data processed? What proportion of data is estimated?

In order to attain the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Fund, the Fund obtains most of the relevant data as part of diligence of potential investment opportunities and during the ownership phase, directly from its portfolio companies. Expanded review or verification of the information obtained will be carried out if misrepresentations are suspected. The results of the data obtained are considered in connection with the investment decision and, for existing portfolio companies, any follow-on investment decisions. As part of the diligence, the Fund collects and qualifies data and documents and performs a holistic analysis including based on key deal criteria as well as risk assessment, team & governance, shareholding structure etc.

If relevant data may not be retrieved from the portfolio companies the Fund may use estimates based on plausible fact-based assumptions. The proportion of estimated data cannot be provided in advance (it will highly depend on the quality and availability of data in each specific case) but it is anticipated that a large portion of the data will be based on estimates.

9. Limitations to methodologies and data

What are the limitations to the used (i) methodologies and (ii) data sources? How do such limitations not affect the attainment of the promoted environmental or social characteristics?

The measurement against the Fund’s objectives is predominantly assessed through milestone analysis. This assessment is performed mainly qualitatively, based on input from the management team, complemented with select quantitative information that management uses to track progress, such as investor updates. There may for natural reasons be limitations in such information (which can be addressed through interviews or complementary data). Expanded reviews of the information collected from portfolio companies will only be undertaken if and to the extent misrepresentations are suspected. As the Fund generally seeks to create long-term partnerships through its investments, the Fund considers it a priority to establish and maintain a trustful working relationship with its portfolio companies in order to ensure compliance with the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Fund.

Moreover, given that the Fund will make minority investments in portfolio companies in very early stages, it is anticipated that a large portion of the data will be based on estimates. The Fund will establish processes and calculation methods in order to produce as accurate and reliable data as possible.

10. Due diligence

What is the due diligence carried out on the underlying assets of the financial product, and which internal and external controls are in place?

When assessing the attractiveness of an investment opportunity (i.e., a potential portfolio company), the Fund considers material sustainability / impact aspects as part of its due diligence. The outcome of the sustainability / impact analysis is documented and considered by the Fund as a part of the overall review of the investment opportunity.

The following factors are analyzed as part of the currently adopted investment screening / due diligence process: (i) impact potential considering five pre-defined metrics[5], (ii) technology, (iii) business model and the relationship between impact and financial returns, (iii) path to scale & unit economics, (iv) management team, (v) risk factors, including Sustainability Risks, and (vi) the Fund’s potential contribution.

To assess good governance practices of the Fund’s portfolio companies, the Fund has adopted a process for due diligence, which e.g. sets out positive and negative assessment criteria in relation to governance aspects such as management structures, employee relations, remuneration of staff and tax compliance. During the ownership phase, the Fund also monitors that the portfolio companies are complying with good governance practices on an ongoing basis.

As stated above, an internal or external review or verification of the information obtained will be carried out if misrepresentations are suspected.

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[5] Currently, according to the Impact Management Project’s (IMP) framework for impact management, but alternative frameworks with equivalent robustness may be considered in the future.

11. Engagement policies

Engagement is not part of the environmental or social investment strategy of the Fund.

12. Designated reference benchmark

No reference benchmark has been designated for the purpose of attaining the environmental or social characteristics promoted by the Fund.

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