US legislators have scheduled hearings on sustainable investing for the first time according to Meg Voorhees, research director for US SIF, the forum for sustainable and responsible investment. Voorhees spoke yesterday on a webinar about the release of the biennial Global Sustainable Investment Review 2018. The survey found that global sustainable investment assets reached $30.7 (€27.4) trillion at the start of 2018, an increase of a third from 2016. She said: “US legislators have scheduled hearings on sustainable investing for the first time.