# Sustainable Investing

*ESG & Sustainable Finance — Finicade finance glossary*

Sustainable investing incorporates environmental, social and governance factors alongside financial ones. It splits into three distinct approaches that are often conflated: screening out what you object to, integrating ESG data as financial risk information, and investing for measurable real-world impact. Only the second makes a purely financial claim, and it is the one with the most defensible evidence behind it.

**Also known as:** responsible investing, ESG investing

**Related terms:** [ESG](https://finicade.com/glossary/esg), [Socially Responsible Investing](https://finicade.com/glossary/socially-responsible-investing), [Impact Investing](https://finicade.com/glossary/impact-investing), [ESG Rating](https://finicade.com/glossary/esg-rating), [Greenwashing](https://finicade.com/glossary/greenwashing)

Source: https://finicade.com/glossary/sustainable-investing