Sustainable Investment Awards 2025

The Invesco Environmental Focus Municipal Fund was honoured for its long-standing role in leveraging the sustainable investment opportunities in the US municipal bond market.

Taking this year's ESG innovation of the year award for research is renewables investment specialist Bluefield Partners for its collaborative circular economy research project ERALD with Lancaster University.

EFM Investments & Advisory's climate-smart forestry partnership with Meta exemplifies how strategic partnerships can drive transformational, scalable ESG outcomes in the forestry sector.

Mercer has reaffirmed its position as leader in sustainable investment (SI) consulting, by winning the award for Investment consultant of the year for the fifth year in a row.

Janus Henderson says 84% of its total assets under management incorporate environmentally and socially responsible practices, and engagement with companies across its portfolios is key to driving positive impact.

For the second year in a row, Osmosis Investment Management (IM) has been named the Listed equities manager of the year, having grown its assets under management by approximately 13% over the period.

NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) has committed to no conversion of natural ecosystems in its direct operations by 2025, extending this to its supply chains by 2030, in its Approach to Nature, which was launched last year.

Focussing on emerging markets, Redwheel's 'Adaptation Investing in Emerging Markets in a 1.5°C World' paper, looks at the relationship between climate adaptation need and capacity in these countries ...

Acting as both an investor and end-to-end developer of carbon projects, the UK specialist investment firm Tramontana expanded into the financing of physical gas, Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs), and Renewable Transport Fuel Certificates (RTFCs) over the last year.

Amidst fund launches and an expansion into new markets, New Forests has won the Boutique investment manager of the year for Asia award for the third year running.

Climate Asset Management, continues to scale up its nature restoration projects across Africa.

For the third year in a row, Moody's Ratings has been named the Most transparent credit rating agency as it published issuer profile and credit impact scores for over 12,000 entities and 3,700 structured finance transactions.

Specialist UK insurer, Pension Insurance Company (PIC) published its first Sustainable Assets Framework in 2024,...

Canada's Stonebridge Financial topped three categories in this year's Sustainable Investment Awards.

The Man Climate Transition Impact Bond has scooped the Global ESG fixed income fund of the year award after just a year after launch due to its novel science-led investment approach.

MetLife Investment Management's paper 'Pitfalls & Mitigants of Climate Assessment Software: Recommendations for Evaluating US Commercial Real Estate Climate Exposure', aims to enhance investor understanding on real estate climate assessment software.

Bloomberg Index Services Limited (BISL) provides 500 cross-asset indices covering climate, environmental, social and governance (ESG) sustainable debt, with more than $100 billion in assets tracking those indices. Its comprehensive coverage saw it win two awards this year.

Growing interest in nature-based solutions should help lead to greater scaling of restoration projects and deliver better outcomes for marginal communities, says Climate Asset Management's Tripurari Prasad, winner of this year's Investment leader of the year award.

The international circular economy specialist Reconomy stood out in 2024 by delivering an industry-first Circularity Scorecard, which measures and communicates the environmental performance of its recycling and resource recovery operations.

In 2024, BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) launched a new range of ESG-enhanced equity ETFs.

Newmarket Capital secured several key deals over the year to win the Private debt manager of the year award.

A division of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), NY Green Bank is a specialised investment fund dedicated to bridging financial gaps and mobilising private capital for clean energy and renewable infrastructure in New York State.

Growth markets infrastructure investor Actis has been awarded ESG investment initiative of the year, Asia for its $800 million investment in Indian renewable energy company BluPine Energy.

With environmental sustainability at its core, the asset manager has progressed both its private and public markets offerings in the last year, including the launch of a Europe-focused small-cap strategy and three new platform investments.

The Church Commissioners for England has been awarded ESG engagement initiative of the year, EMEA, and Thought leadership paper on sustainable investing, Europe, at the 2025 Sustainable Investment Awards.

Daphni has been named Social fund of the year, Europe, for its Time4 initiative, which is fundraising towards its €100 million target.

Private equity firm Eurazeo has taken home two awards at this year's Environmental Finance Sustainable Investment Awards for a duo of impact funds.

Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) has won ESG engagement initiative of the year for Asia, for its Orange Seal, a certification recognising businesses driving gender equality and climate action.

Winning Stock exchange of the year for the third year in a row, the London Stock Exchange provides market infrastructure for raising and allocating sustainable capital.

US asset manager AllianceBernstein scooped a brace of ESG fund of the year awards after being praised for its "thoughtful" approach to integrating sustainability into its investment strategies.

In 2024, the Swedish pension fund AP4 sought to enhance its portfolio resilience and climate alignment through various upgrades to its approach and analysis.

ClarityAI says its launch of 'AI Assistant' and 'Company Briefs' "set a new standard for ESG insights ... eliminating outdated, time-consuming research methods".

Iceberg Data Lab (IDL) has continued to expand its capabilities throughout the year.

Measurabl expanded its real estate ESG data offering in 2024 with the launch of Navigate, a product spanning utility data, third-party certifications, carbon accounting, risk assessments, and decarbonisation planning.

Incorporating elements of the Transition Plan Taskforce framework was a key innovation in Cathay Financial's 2023 climate and nature report.

Global Alpha says its detailed reporting, including all three Scopes of greenhouse gas emissions, financed emissions, and contribution of holdings to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, shows the effectiveness of its investments and engagement.

BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group has won four awards for its Latin American reforestation strategy which continues to attract investment and large-scale offtake agreements.

Winning the global Environmental fund of the year award for its Global Climate and Environment Fund, Nordea's global equity strategy invests in businesses providing clean energy, resource efficiency and environmental protection.

Forest Investment Associates (FIA) has won the Environmental fund of the year for the North America region for the continued deployment of its climate-smart forestry strategy.

NatureAlpha said it has "significantly expanded its data capabilities" over the past year, through advances in geospatial analytics and AI.

Nana Skari Maidugu has been named Personality of the year in Environmental Finance's Sustainable Investment Awards, for her role in embedding sustainability at the heart of one of Africa's most influential sovereign wealth funds.

Arguing environmental, social and governance (ESG) frameworks struggle to incorporate nature effectively, the Landbanking Group (TLG) has developed what it claims is a standardised, high-fidelity framework to measure and value nature outcomes.

Winning two awards in this year's Sustainable Investment Awards, the awards judges were impressed to see Mirova's fixed income funds were classified Article 9 ...

MSCI's Sustainability and Climate Trends to Watch for 2025 paper highlighted six trends which it believes will be key for the year ahead.

The Transition Pathways Initiative (TPI) Centre's new tool, the Net Zero Standards Assessment Framework, launched last year, assesses the credibility and effectiveness of low-carbon transition plans of companies in the diversified mining and oil and gas sectors.