"Agricultural commodities and food speculation" is a topic that affects everyone. World hunger is an urgent challenge and will continue to grow in the future. Food security is a vital part of the solution. One way to help combat the challenge is to invest in soft commodities and the entire agricultural value chain.

Deutsche Bank supports a well-balanced overall energy mix that takes economics as well as ecology into account and is, at the same time, future-oriented.

Hydropower projects can have negative social and environmental impacts, including involuntary community resettlement, degradation of water quality, destruction of sensitive sites (environmental, religious) and loss of wildlife habitat.

Public concerns about nuclear power increased considerably after the nuclear incident in Fukushima, Japan, in March 2011. As a result, many countries reviewed existing nuclear power programs and Germany decided to phase out its nuclear power plants by 2022.

The potential to extract shale gas through frackinghas doubled estimated global gas reserves and is improving energy security. An increase of shale gas production has reduced energy prices, benefitting global economic growth. Shale gas is the least carbon-intensive fossil fuel and remains an important bridging fuel as lower-carbon energy sources are established.