MARKETS27 June 2026· 9 min
ESG & Sustainable Finance: How Green Criteria Are Reshaping Global Investment Strategies
With over $35 trillion in ESG assets under management globally, sustainable finance has moved from niche to mainstream. Discover how ESG criteria are fundamentally reshaping capital allocation, portfolio construction, and corporate behavior.
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[1]Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) — Global Sustainable Investment Review 2022
[2]MSCI — ESG and the Cost of Capital Study, 2023
[3]Climate Bonds Initiative — Sustainable Debt Global State of the Market 2024
[4]Morningstar — European Sustainable Funds Landscape Q1 2024
[5]MIT Sloan Management Review — Aggregate Confusion: The Divergence of ESG Ratings (Berg et al., 2022)
[6]NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business — ESG and Financial Performance Meta-Analysis 2023
[7]Harvard Business School — Active Ownership (Dimson, Karakaş, Li, 2021)
[8]International Energy Agency (IEA) — World Energy Outlook 2023
[9]Bloomberg NEF — Green Bond Pricing in the Primary Market 2023
[10]Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) — Progress Report 2024
[11]European Commission — SFDR and EU Taxonomy Implementation Reports 2023-2024