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The European Union’s Green New Deal: A Primer

BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink, in a letter to fellow CEOs, made a special note of the growing importance of sustainability, not simply as a nod to changing public attitudes, but also for the ability of “sustainability- and climate-integrated portfolios [to] provide better risk-adjusted returns to investors.”
BlackRock’s findings reflect a growing sense in some corners of the alternative investments industry that green investing may not only be the shrewd thing for a company to do in the face of changing shareholder attitudes, but that it is also the best path toward achieving long-term, profitable, risk-adjusted returns. While data is still scarce, and green alternative investments have only just begun to slip into the mainstream, some research is beginning to suggest that ESG investments may be outperforming their non-green counterparts. While the still limited body of data, along with a taxonomy for ESG investments that has yet to be entirely standardized (although the EU Taxonomy marks a strong step in that direction) make predicting the future of green alternatives difficult, below are some notes on this growing body of data that suggests that green alternatives may be gearing up for a decade of growing returns and profitability: