I’ll start by saying I don’t trust any bank to give me a list of green investments. Mine has a “pay monthly and we will invest for you” but the list of companies it has are all from BlackRock and have a bunch of US companies, oil and gas giants pretending to have green goals, and techno-fascist companies like Tesla on the list because “they’re going electric”.
My time is limited and I’m not willing to spend hours every day scrutinising companies and initiatives to ensure they are green, sustainable, and socially aware. Following green news, there is news about whatever new battery is in whichever stage, a new company testing a carbo-fibre something improve whatever new thing will turn a turbine, and so on, but some of those companies either aren’t public or so fresh it would be risky to invest.
How do I safely and lazily invest in green European businesses? I’m willing to pay for the service, but not a wild amount as I don’t have a wild amount to invest either. Also, the return should be more than just letting it sit in my savings account. Risk is fine, an average return of 2% isn’t.
There are private, closed investment funds for things like windmills in the north sea, but these are of course super non-diversified and non-liquid. You could also try to find an etf that matches your preferences as much as possible and use a cheap/free neobroker to buy it, for example: Amundi MSCI Europe SRI Climate Paris Aligned UCITS ETF DR ©, you can see the full list of holdings at Amundis website
I would go the etf route, because it is diversified and you can get your funds out at any time, you also don’t have minumum or maximum amounts of investment. In some countries you can even do it tax free as a pension.