On the surface, it appears that the total value of sustainable financial assets under management (AUM) of professional investment managers in the United States overtook Europe in 2020, rising to 17.1 trillion U.S. dollars compared to the 12 trillion U.S. dollars. Moreover, it also appears this is (at least in part) due to the value of sustainable AUM in Europe shrinking over this period. However, this perception does not factor in the differences in how sustainable assets are categorized - both between different years and between different countries - with this reduction in Europe in 2020 in fact being due to the introduction of a new definition for sustainable investments. This lack of consistent criteria for determining what constitutes 'sustainable' financial assets means that geographic and temporal comparisons can be difficult at best, and misleading at worst.
Value of sustainable investment assets worldwide from 2014-2020, by region
(in billion U.S. dollars)
* According to the source, "Europe and Australasia have enacted significant changes in the way sustainable investment is defined in these regions, so direct comparisons between regions and with previous versions of this report are not easily made."
Values refer to assets being held by professional asset managers in the regions specified.
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