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About the Fund

Enables investors seeking portfolio diversification and long-term capital growth to invest in companies that are actively addressing climate change.

Risks and Opportunities

Investors face significant risks and opportunities as companies transition to a lower-carbon economy.

Addressing Carbon Emissions

Large reductions in carbon emissions are needed to avoid the drastic economic and social consequences that society faces as a result of climate change.

Focused Investment

The Templeton Global Climate Change Fund is designed to answer the needs of investors by focusing on investment opportunities that have a positive impact on global climate change.

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Key Features

Combines fundamental value investing with robust, in-house climate change research to capitalise on investment opportunities, reduce risk and influence positive outcomes related to climate change. Investments are made across a broad range of sectors by investing in companies that fall into two primary themes:

Solutions Companies:

Those with majority of revenues from products and services that seek to reduce emissions, improve resource efficiency, and/or protect against the physical consequences of climate change.

Transitioning Companies:

Companies with exposure to solutions offerings that are either growing into solutions companies over time, enabling solutions companies through adjacent products, and/or have low absolute carbon and resource intensity.

Sustainability

We firmly believe that analysis of the long-term prospects for any company we research should consider the potential effect of factors such as its impact on the environment (E), a company’s relationship with employees and the community where it operates (S), or how its oversight is structured (G).

Analyzing the material issues a company is exposed to is just good business analysis. And when companies manage all stakeholder relationships effectively, they can be more successful at managing risk and capturing opportunities.

ESG analysis embedded in fundamental research

  • Deep understanding enhances long-term predictions of return on invested capital
  • Analyst’s assessment of material risks and opportunities included in research report

Engaged investors with an owner’s mindset

  • Driving best practice through communication with management and proxy vote
  • Engagement activities and outcomes tracked in research database

Proprietary ESG scores help calibrate risks and opportunities1

  • Enhances perspective across universe
  • Databased and tracked over time

Further information in relation to the sustainability-related aspects of the Fund can be found at www.franklintempleton.lu. Please review all of the fund’s objectives and characteristics before investing.

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9 OCTOBER 2023

Energy transition: Accelerating investment opportunities

Arguably, humanity’s greatest current challenge is the need to shift to low and net-zero carbon in a little less than 30 years. These challenges create investment opportunities as investors have a critical role given the capital required to fund this transition. Our specialist investment managers explore energy transition and the new technologies and infrastructures required.

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9 OCTOBER 2023

Net-zero’s bridge fuel: natural gas’s critical role in transition

Franklin Equity Group discusses opportunity in natural gas production, infrastructure and transportation as global stakeholders partner to meet consumer demand while working toward societies’ climate change and energy transition goals.

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Meet the Team

Our Global Climate Change strategy is managed by a team of experienced portfolio managers/analysts, ESG specialists and research analysts. Offering unique experience in and understanding of the risks and opportunities associated with the strategy, these dedicated, global industry experts provide stewardship at every step – which creates long-term value for investors.

Craig Cameron, CFA

Edinburgh, UK
Managed Fund since 2021

Tina Sadler, CFA

Toronto, Canada
Managed Fund since 2020

What are the Key Fund Risks?

Templeton Global Climate Change Fund

The value of shares in the Fund and income received from it can go down as well as up and investors may not get back the full amount invested. Performance may also be affected by currency fluctuations. Currency fluctuations may affect the value of overseas investments.

The Fund invests mainly in equity securities of companies across all sectors worldwide that are good stewards of their impact on social and environmental development. Such securities have historically been subject to significant price movements that may occur suddenly due to market or company-specific factors. As a result, the performance of the Fund can fluctuate significantly over relatively short time periods.

Risks materially relevant not adequately captured by the indicator:

Sustainability risk: The fund's integration of sustainability risks in the investment decision process may have the effect of excluding profitable investments from the investment universe of the fund and may also cause the fund to sell investments that will continue to perform well. A sustainability risk could materialise due to an environmental, social or governance event or condition which may impact the fund's investments and negatively affect the returns of the fund.

Derivative Instruments risk: the risk of loss in an instrument where a small change in the value of the underlying investment may have a larger impact on the value of such instrument. Derivatives may involve additional liquidity, credit and counterparty risks.

Emerging markets risk: the risk related to investing in countries that have less developed political, economic, legal and regulatory systems, and that may be impacted by political/economic instability, lack of liquidity or transparency, or safekeeping issues.

Foreign Currency risk: the risk of loss arising from exchange-rate fluctuations or due to exchange control regulations.

For a full discussion of all the risks applicable to this Fund, please refer to the “Risk Considerations” section of the current prospectus of Franklin Templeton Investment Funds.

Important Information

This fund meets the requirements under Article 9 of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR); the fund has an objective to make sustainable investments as defined in SFDR.

Further information in relation to the sustainability-related aspects of the Fund can be found at franklintempleton.lu/SFDR. Please review all of the fund's objectives and characteristics before investing.

This marketing material is intended to be of general interest only and should not be construed as investment advice nor does it constitute legal or tax advice and it is not an offer for shares or an invitation to apply for shares of the Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV Franklin Templeton Investment Funds (the "Fund or FTIF"). For the avoidance of doubt, if you make a decision to invest, you will be buying shares in the fund and will not be investing directly in the underlying assets of the fund.

The value of shares in the Fund and income received from it can go down as well as up, and investors may not get back the full amount invested. Past performance does not predict future returns. Currency fluctuations may affect the value of overseas investments. When investing in a fund denominated in a foreign currency, your performance may also be affected by currency fluctuations.

Franklin Templeton ("FT") shall not be liable to any user of this document or to any other person or entity for the inaccuracy of information or any errors or omissions in its contents, regardless of the cause of such inaccuracy, error or omission. Any opinions expressed are the author's at publication date and they are subject to change without prior notice. Any research and analysis contained in this marketing material has been procured by FT for its own purposes and is provided to you only incidentally. Data from third party sources may have been used in the preparation of this document and FTI has not independently verified, validated or audited such data. References to particular industries, sectors or companies are for general information and are not necessarily indicative of the Fund's holding at any one time.

No shares of the Fund may be directly or indirectly offered or sold to residents of the United States of America. Shares of the Fund are not available for public distribution in all jurisdictions and prospective investors should consult their financial advisor before deciding to invest. The Fund may use financial derivatives or other instruments which may entail specific risks more fully described in the Fund's Prospectus and, where available, in the relevant Key Investor Information Document or any other relevant offering document.

Subscriptions to shares of the Fund can only be made on the basis of the current Prospectus of the Fund, and, where available, the relevant Key Investor Information Document (or any other relevant offering document), accompanied by the latest available audited annual report and the latest semi-annual report if published thereafter. These documents can be found on our website at www.ftidocuments.com, obtained, free of charge, from your local FTI representative or can be requested via FT's European Facilities Service which is available at https://www.eifs.lu/franklintempleton. The Fund's documents are available in English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish.

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