In KIRKBI Climate, we play an active role in addressing global climate change by investing in and building high-impact businesses focused on energy transition, circular plastics and land sustainability.
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How we invest
We are not just picking one winner, we want to change the game.
KIRKBI Climate invests to create catalytic impact. Our strategy is systemic investing with patient capital — identifying the leverage points across a value chain where a portfolio of coordinated investments can unlock system-wide change, rather than funding isolated solutions that leave the underlying problem intact.
How we invest
We are not just picking one winner, we want to change the game.
KIRKBI Climate invests to create catalytic impact. Our strategy is systemic investing with patient capital — identifying the leverage points across a value chain where a portfolio of coordinated investments can unlock system-wide change, rather than funding isolated solutions that leave the underlying problem intact.
Our investment areas
Energy Transition
We aim to contribute to accelerating the energy transition by deploying renewable energy and advancing energy storage solutions.
Circular Plastics
We aim to reduce plastic pollution and associated emissions by strengthening sorting and recycling systems and advancing reuse models.
Land Sustainability
We aim to establish more production forestry to create a positive impact on environment, climate, and biodiversity.
By building impactful businesses and investing in energy transition, circular plastics, and land sustainability, we aim to create long-term value for a sustainable future.
Anupam Bhargava, CEO of KIRKBI Climate
By building impactful businesses and investing in energy transition, circular plastics, and land sustainability, we aim to create long-term value for a sustainable future.
Anupam Bhargava, CEO of KIRKBI Climate
KIRKBI Climate highlights
10.3
bn DKK
The current investment portfolio of KIRKBI Climate is DKK 10.3 billion.
+ 10.0
bn DKK
KIRKBI Climate aims to deploy up to an additional DKK 10 billion in climate solutions by 2030.
To maximise impact while ensuring long-term return on investment, we operate with a twofold approach:
Mature technologies
Companies with more mature technologies, where exercise of active ownership can strengthen performance and support the companies in reaching their potential. An example is KIRKBI Climate’s ownership of Adapture Renewables Inc., a U.S.-based developer of solar facilities and energy storage.
New technologies
Explore new technologies that have moved beyond the prototype phase and require risk-willing and long-term capital to reach scale. An example where KIRKBI Climate is a minority investor is Tidal Vision, a U.S.-based company that focuses on replacing harsh chemicals with chitosan-based solutions in water treatment, agriculture, and biomaterials such as plastic.
This is what systemic investing means in practice
We bring
Patient capital
The willingness to take early risk where others hesitate
Trusted long-term ownership that unlocks partnerships
We build
Businesses
Capabilities
Platforms across value-chain leverage points
Investments that reinforce each other, rather than standing alone
We shift
Market behaviour
Additionality
Investor confidence
The conditions that make system-wide change irreversible
A separate business in KIRKBI
KIRKBI Climate is a separate business area within KIRKBI A/S — the holding company behind the LEGO Group, rooted in the Kirk Kristiansen family's long tradition of responsible, long-term ownership.
Through KIRKBI Climate, the family is deploying that heritage directly against the defining challenge of our time: building the businesses that will reshape energy, plastics, and land for a liveable future.
KIRKBI Climate has its own leadership team and board of directors.
A separate business in KIRKBI
KIRKBI Climate is a separate business area within KIRKBI A/S — the holding company behind the LEGO Group, rooted in the Kirk Kristiansen family's long tradition of responsible, long-term ownership.
Through KIRKBI Climate, the family is deploying that heritage directly against the defining challenge of our time: building the businesses that will reshape energy, plastics, and land for a liveable future.
KIRKBI Climate has its own leadership team and board of directors.