Sustainable Finance

We are supporting our clients’ sustainability priorities across our financing, investing, and advisory services, with a goal of mobilizing $750 billion in sustainable finance activity by 2030. Read more in the Goldman Sachs Sustainability Report, December 2025.

Sustainable Finance

We are supporting our clients’ sustainability priorities across our financing, investing, and advisory services, with a goal of mobilizing $750 billion in sustainable finance activity by 2030. Read more in the Goldman Sachs Sustainability Report, December 2025.
Our Approach to Sustainable Finance
As an investment bank, asset manager, corporate issuer, and risk manager, we focus on helping our clients and firm capture sustainability-related opportunities and manage sustainability-related risks. We execute our strategic approach by working with clients, managing our firm, and addressing market gaps.
Working With Clients

Our approach to sustainable finance centers on our clients. We facilitate our clients' sustainability objectives by providing them with our advice; market-­based solutions across public and private markets, including innovative structuring and financing solutions; and dedicated risk management capabilities 

 

Managing Our Firm

Through our internal governance and controls, we strive to preserve long-term value for our shareholders by managing climate-related risk, environmental and social risks, and divergent regulatory expectations across jurisdictions where we operate. We also manage our global footprint across our operations and supply chain

Addressing Market Gaps

Our firm identifies unmet market needs and develops solutions that can be scaled over the long term by leveraging our existing capabilities and those of our strategic partners. Collaborating with these partners, and often complementing these efforts with strategic philanthropic capital, we are focused on creating innovative, market-­based solutions for our clients

Our Sustainable Finance Activity
As a financial institution, we facilitate our clients’ sustainability priorities, which contribute to a more resilient and sustainable economy.

In 2019, we launched the Sustainable Finance Framework and announced a firmwide 10-year, $750 billion sustainable finance goal to track our support of our clients’ sustainability priorities across our financing, investing, and advisory activities.

  • Finance: Originate, structure, and execute transactions and risk management solutions to facilitate access to capital
  • Invest: Allocate Goldman Sachs capital or client capital into public and private investments
  • Advise: Provide expertise and strategic recommendations to clients on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and spin-offs

Since 2020, we have mobilized approximately $675 billion1 of commercial activity, including $401 billion in Climate Transition, $82 billion in Inclusive Growth, and the remainder in multiple themes.2 The most significant sub-theme contributor to Climate Transition is from Clean Energy, followed by Sustainable Transport, which together drive the majority of the Climate Transition contribution.

Reaching approximately 90% of our sustainable finance goal in just over five years reflects our ability to meet our clients’ needs across a wide range of sustainable finance capabilities.

1 Cumulative progress through June 30, 2025. 

2 Includes activity relating to both Climate Transition and Inclusive Growth. 

Our Sustainable Finance Framework
Serving as the foundation for our 10-year, $750 billion sustainable finance goal, the Sustainable Finance Framework ("Framework") includes two broad themes we have observed in many of our clients' sustainability priorities—Climate Transition and Inclusive Growth. The Framework helps us track our sustainable financing, investing, and advisory activities, including advising clients capitalizing on short- and long-term trends; structuring innovative capital, financing, and risk management solutions: and delivering market-based products and services.
Climate Transition
Climate Transition
  • Clean EnergyEnable renewable energy generation, energy efficiency, and grid services
  • Sustainable TransportShift modes of transit through electric vehicles, connected services, autonomous driving, and public transportation development
  • Sustainable Food and AgricultureEnable green agricultural production, storage, processing, and distrubution to feed the world.
  • Waste and MaterialsPromote sustainable production and consumption, along with responsible waste managment
  • Ecosystem ServicesContribute to the sustainable management of natural resources and monetize the value of forests, water, and biodiversity
Inclusive Growth
Inclusive Growth
  • Accessible and Innovative HealthcareEnable use of digital technology, advanced, devices, and diagnostics for better outcomes
  • Financial InclusionAdvance financial inclusion for all, including underserved populations, by promoting access to capital, financial technology, and products that increase access, support financial health, and drive more equitable economic growth
  • Accessible and Affordable EducationEnable greater access to education, improve learning outcomes, and help close opportunity gaps for learners of all ages
  • CommunitiesEnable infrastructure development, affordable housing, and livelihood advancement
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