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Sustainability Awards

We are dedicated to accelerating the climate transition and driving inclusive economic growth, integrating these two imperatives into our work with clients and how we manage our firm.

Featured Awards

Fast Company – World Changing Ideas

We’re positioning clients for a future in which sustainability is core to all industries, by doing what we know best: investing, financing, advising, and innovating. 

JUST Capital – America’s Most Just Companies

We are actively working to tackle climate change and achieve net zero in our operations and supply chain, targeting net zero carbon emissions by 2030. 

Environmental Finance Impact Awards – Asia Initiative of the Year

The Climate Innovation and Development Fund, our two-year partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Asian Development Bank, leveraged roughly $25 million of grant capital to help unlock roughly $500 million in private-sector and governmental investments. 

Recent Awards

 

Environmental Finance – Impact Awards (December 2023)
Impact Initiative of the Year, Asia – The Climate Innovation and Development Fund

Newsweek – America’s Greenest Companies (October 2023)

Fast Company – World Changing Ideas (May 2023)
Impact Investing – The Climate Innovation Development Fund

Environmental Finance – The Bond Awards (April 2023)

  • Green Project Bond of the Year: Clean Energy Connect
  • Social Bond of the Year, Local Authority/Municipality: Tokyo Metropolitan Government
  • Green Bond of the Year, Local Authority/Municipality

 

Past Awards

2022

The Climate Group EP100 List (November 2022)

JUST Capital – Top 100 U.S. Companies Supporting Healthy Families and Communities (July 2022)
#4

Private Equity International – Impact 30 (July 2022)
# 5

Environmental Finance – Sustainable Investment Awards (June 2022)

  • Thought Leadership Paper on Sustainable Investing, North America – Black Womenomics
  • ESG Research of the Year, Asia – Navigating Asian ESG Regulation and Compliance Towards Net Zero Objectives
     

Environmental Finance – Bond Awards (March 2022)
Green Project Bond of the Year

US Environmental Protection Agency – Green Power Partnership (January 2022)
#56 in the National Top 100

JUST Capital – America’s 100 Most Just Companies (January 2022)

  • #57 Overall
  • #2 within the Capital Markets industry, and #1 in subcategories of Environmental Impact and Workers

 

2021

Global Finance – World’s Best Private Banks (December 2021)
Best Private Bank for Sustainable Investing in North America

Forbes – Green Growth 50 (November 2021)
#35

Environmental Finance – Impact Awards (September 2021)
Global Impact Initiative of the Year – As part of the COP26 Portfolio Alignment Team, Goldman Sachs supported the development of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures’ award-winning paper Measuring Portfolio Alignment

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) (April – November 2021)
Gold certification for our offices in:

  • Dallas
  • Shenzhen
  • Hong Kong
  • Seattle
  • Singapore (Mapletree Anson)
     

Silver certification for our offices in:

  • Shanghai
  • Milan
     

EPA Green Power Partnership National Top 100 (January – October 2021)

  • January: #51
  • April: #51
  • July: #55
  • October: #55
     

JUST Capital – Top 10 Companies Leading on Environmental Impact (April 2021)