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Sustainable Investment – History

Sustainability has been the slogan of recent years. More and more customers, consumers, government bodies, employees, society, investors, shareholders and suppliers have required organizations good postures and right actions in terms of socio environmental behavior.

Much more than just a fad, these requirements are pragmatic: sustainable businesses, in fact, generate greater economic returns for shareholders.
 
Several programs and initiatives have been launched in recent years that seek to measure the level of sustainability of organizations in order to delimit its internal initiatives and external evaluation by investors and lenders:

• DJSI: Dow Jones Sustainability Index
• ISE: Corporate Sustainability Index of BOVESPA
• PRI: Principles for Responsible Investment
• Equator Principles
• Other

Despite its importance and high credibility, these actions end up recognizing only companies with high level of sustainability. Companies still in the way of good practice are unable to obtain accreditation with these initiatives due to its intrinsic characteristic.
 
On the other hand, investors wanting to provide resources for sustainable businesses do not have a broad picture of the level of sustainability of its portfolio, since hardly any portfolio fits in sustainability indices well known in the market.

Moreover, financial institutions are increasingly demanded by regulatory agencies or by voluntary commitments to include socio environmental criteria in their process of credit analysis. Recent cases involving investments of national and international banks in activities that encourage deforestation end up being important inducers of this movement.
 
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