Global Sustainable Investment Review 2024
In November 2025, the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA) published the seventh edition of the biennial Global Sustainable Investment Review (GSIR), finding that sustainable and responsible investment is moving from a niche practice to a systemic consideration.
The biennial Global Sustainable Investment Review, published during COP30 in Brazil, describes how the global economic, political, and sustainability landscape has been characterised by volatility and fragmentation over the last two years. However, throughout this period of uncertainty, a renewed effort is emerging to anchor finance within the transition to a net-zero economy, demonstrated by the steep rise in investment allocated to the clean energy sector along with data showing the green economy is the second fastest growing industry globally.
Fund-level sustainability disclosures, which began in the EU, have since been adopted across many GSIA regions. This has reset expectations for how we define and report sustainable and responsible investment, with an emphasis on moving the industry toward a more consistent and transparent standard of practice aligned to real-world change.
However, a weakening political consensus on climate policy has the capacity to undermine progress. In the absence of government interventions to reshape the global economy onto a sustainable trajectory, capital will remain incentivised to exacerbate climate change rather than address it.
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Report Headlines:
- • Sustainable and responsible investment has moved from a ‘niche practice to a systemic consideration’, though the pace and scale of change remain insufficient to meet global challenges such as climate change.
- • Positive developments including enhancements to sustainability disclosures, which began in the EU, have now spread across many GSIA regions.
- • Despite challenging political and economic conditions over the last two years, there are signs that a ‘sustainable economic transition is underway’.
- • But the report warns: without government interventions to transform the global economy, capital will remain incentivised to exacerbate – rather than limit and respond to – climate change.
