INVESTORS Login About Putnam Careers Contact us Products How we invest Retirement College Perspectives Forms Tax center Accounts Home How we invest Sustainable investing Email LinkedIn Twitter Facebook “Our forward-looking thematic research focuses on the conditions that allow people, systems, society, and the planet to thrive.” – KATHERINE COLLINS, CFA, MTS, HEAD OF SUSTAINABLE INVESTING Approach Investment relevance Team Research Investment options Blogs Sustainable process Forward-looking themes Thriving people Thriving public Thriving planet Mapping to the UN SDGs Seeking sustainability excellence that can drive outperformance Our sustainable investing approach aims to identify the connections between companies and the world’s sustainability challenges. We develop a set of forward-looking themes by focusing on investment-relevant issues. Our sustainability research focuses on three overarching categories Putnam’s Sustainable Investing team organizes its research to identify the connections between companies we can invest in and the world’s evolving sustainability challenges. THRIVING PEOPLE™ THRIVING PLANET™ THRIVING PUBLIC™ Mapping Putnam investment categories to the UN SDGs The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (listed in the far left columns of the tables below) serve as a guide to the world's most important sustainability priorities. Here we show the connections between our investment themes and the SDG framework. 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