For more than two decades organisations such as the national Sustainable Investment Forums (SIFs) and Eurosif have published statistics about sustainability-related investments. Such market studies typically gathered data on a range of different sustainability-related investment approaches – such as the “best-in-class” approach – and aggregated them to one of a number of “sustainable investments”.
While such statistics are helpful to provide a broad picture of market trends for overall sustainability-related investments in terms of capital flows and total volumes, questions may arise as to what these studies consider “sustainable”.
Furthermore, these statistics did not differentiate between investments based on their investment strategy and/or objectives, such as to actively support the transition towards a more sustainable economy. Since the introduction and rollout…
