Investing in the green economy – sizing the opportunity

The green economy is an increasingly important part of addressing environmental objectives and its data, a key part of investors sustainable investment tool kit. With the development of new green taxonomies at the national level, broad, granular datasets are going to be important in their implementation.

The FTSE Russell Green Revenues 2.0 (“GR 2.0”) Data Model provides investors with a data on more than 3,000 global listed companies that have exposure to the green economy. It addresses important challenges of green economy data; the taxonomy of green activities, tiers of "greenness" and low levels of disclosure of green revenues.