Method of mitigating the impact of carbon emissions from investment activity

A computer-implemented method of mitigating the impact of carbon emissions from investment activity, comprising the steps of:

• (a) providing at least one computing device, the at least one computing device having a machine learning engine installed thereon, the machine learning engine trained to analyze stock market data and identify target companies for inclusion in an investment portfolio;
• (b) providing a database comprising a list of total carbon emissions for each company on a stock market;
• (c) providing a non-profit organization, the non-profit organization organized such that it is exempt from at least some portion of taxes normally charged by a government;
• (d) determining, using the at least one computing device and the machine learning engine, the investment portfolio, the portfolio comprising a number of publicly traded shares of each company in a set of companies on the stock market, the determining based on an analysis of stock market data and an identification of target companies for inclusion in the investment portfolio;
• (e) packaging the portfolio determined in step (d) into a fund;
• (f) identifying, using the database of carbon emissions, a carbon cost for the number of publicly traded shares of each company in the set of companies on the stock market determined in step (d);
• (g) purchasing, using the non-profit organization, one or more carbon trading permits from one or more cap-and-trade compliance markets, where the total carbon emissions represented by the one or more carbon trading permits is sufficient to offset the carbon cost identified in step (f).