German Impact Investing Survey 2025

The need for capital supporting solutions to environmental and social problems is high. Impact investments are well-suited to help close this investment gap and have gained increasing attention in recent years. In this context, the Bundesverband Impact Investing (BVII) surveyed German impact investors to generate insights that help embed impact investing as a standard practice in German capital markets — strengthening the market’s ability to finance real economy transformation and mobilizing the impact capital needed to meet social and environmental goals. The survey offers ransparency into current impact investing practices, developments, and challenges, including the barriers faced by organizations that have not yet adopted such approaches. Building on these insights, it also highlights key issues the BVII aims to address to help accelerate the adoption of impact investing in Germany.