The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a great means for directing investor capital to achieve sustainability targets. Assessing which companies to invest in based on their contributions to the 17 goals has been done for some time – but how to do this for government bonds?
Extending the Robeco SDG Framework to cover government bonds can provide a useful way of bridging the funding gap for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, says quant researcher Laurens Swinkels.