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4 evidenced findings

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A real, working llms.txt, a rarity among the sites we've reviewed

Most companies we've reviewed true-404 llms.txt (the file AI assistants read first). SIX Group's does not: it returns live, hand-authored markdown with real links to governance, sustainability, product-line, and careers pages. Paired with a genuine, complete security.txt (HackerOne-backed Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure program, contact and scope links, a stated expiry date), SIX is meaningfully ahead of the others we've reviewed on both agent-discovery and security hygiene, credited plainly with no caveat needed.

“# SIX Group > SIX Group is a leading provider of financial infrastructure in Switzerland and Spain... ## Sustainability - [Sustainability at SIX](https://www.six-group.com/en/company/sustainability.html): Our ESG strategy, initiatives, and reporting approach.”Source: www.six-group.com/llms.txt, live 2026-07-16 (1,876 bytes, real content)
curl -sA 'Mozilla/5.0' https://www.six-group.com/llms.txt
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Buyer and lead investor in the same carbon-removal trust layer

SIX's own sustainability page commits, in its own words, to establishing carbon markets through Carbonfuture. Separately, Carbonfuture's own press release (Feb 11, 2025) confirms a multi-year DACCS + biochar removal agreement, phased deliberately (“securing a portion of its carbon removal needs today, increasing volumes annually”), layered on top of a September 2024 SIX strategic investment in Carbonfuture itself (independently confirmed in our own earlier research on Carbonfuture, which also notes Idemitsu Americas Holdings participated in that Series A2). SIX is simultaneously a customer of and an equity owner in the verification infrastructure it relies on.

“Establish and scale Carbon Markets: SIX through its strategic partnership with Carbonfuture, aims to jointly establish a carbon removal ecosystem and support Carbonfuture in scaling their infrastructure solution.”Source: six-group.com/en/company/sustainability.html, live 2026-07-16
https://www.carbonfuture.earth/magazine/six-locks-in-long-term-carbon-removal-supply-with-carbonfuture-securing-a-diverse-portfolio-of-high-quality-durable-removal-credits-backed-by-independent-dmrv
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Precise on Article 6: Carbonfuture was the named party, not SIX directly

The widely-covered Switzerland-Norway Article 6.2 bilateral carbon-removal-transfer pilot (the first of its kind under the Paris Agreement) named Carbonfuture as one of several participating service providers, alongside Neustark, Climeworks (Switzerland), and Inherit, Carbon Centric (Norway), plus France's ClimeFi. SIX Group itself does not appear as a named party to that government-to-government agreement. SIX's connection is real but indirect: it runs through SIX's investor and buyer relationship with Carbonfuture, one hop removed from the treaty-level deal, worth stating precisely rather than implying SIX co-signed an international agreement it did not.

https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/news-research/latest-news/energy-transition/061825-switzerland-norway-ink-worlds-first-article-62-durable-carbon-removal-deal
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Own operational targets: SBTi near-term + net zero by 2050

Beyond its Carbonfuture role, SIX's own operations carry dated, quantified commitments: a 6.8% total GHG-emissions reduction versus 2023 levels (2025 reporting), 100% renewable electricity across its Swiss and Spanish locations, and SBTi-aligned near-term targets on the way to a stated net-zero-by-2050 goal.

“SIX aims for net zero emissions by 2050 and has established near-term emissions reduction targets in line with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). ... SIX uses 100% renewable electricity across its locations in Switzerland and Spain.”Source: six-group.com/en/company/sustainability.html, live 2026-07-16
https://www.six-group.com/en/company/sustainability.html
The honest EWP intersection

SIX Group didn't just decide to buy carbon removal, it decided to own a piece of the infrastructure that verifies it, treating trust as an investable asset class rather than a line-item expense. EWP's settlement design runs on the same instinct at a much smaller scale: fund → claim → prove → approve → on-chain settlement, all in one transaction, so the receipt IS the asset rather than a document sitting next to one. As a capital-markets infrastructure operator, SIX is better positioned than almost any buyer we've reviewed to recognize what an on-chain work-receipt asset class looks like before the rest of the market does, offered here only as a structural observation EcoWealth has built and can show, never a claim of contact, pitch, or partnership with SIX Group.

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