摘要: 当今世界面临着各种各样的经济、社会、环境和人口问题，而实现可持续发展的目标正集中于团结公民社会的力量，公民社会是社会经济生活的主要参与者：政治和经济精英、所有物质和无形商品及服务的消费者和生产者。国际社会已经形成了可持续发展和向“绿色”经济转型的理念，将实现自给自足的经济增长与为民众提供社会保障和最大限度地减少对环境的负面影响相结合。如今，机构投资者在实施这一三位一体的发展战略中发挥着系统性作用。本文旨在明确机构投资者在促进全球和国家金融市场“绿色”社会责任转型，以及在许多发达和发展中经济体落实联合国可持续发展目标方面日益重要的作用。研究目标、发现和讨论：探讨分析机构投资者在实现联合国可持续发展目标中的作用的先决条件；对全球投资者提出的某些举措进行评估，作为国家和国际层面社会责任和基础设施投资的范例；确定各种绿色机构投资者（准公共部门、银行、主权福利基金，特别关注保险公司和养老基金在绿色投资过程中的作用）在世界经济一些国家和地区实施金融市场绿色转型中的作用；根据投资类型（直接、间接混合）、投资种类（企业、项目、投资目标）、一般特征（描述、优势、规模、盈利能力）确定机构投资者在绿色基础设施中的主要投资渠道的重要性。

Abstract: A wide range of economic, social, environmental, demographic problems is characteristic of the modern world and is focused on achieving the goals of sustainable development, uniting the efforts of civil society, in which the main actors of socio-economic life are involved: political and economic elites, consumers and producers of the entire aggregate of material and intangible goods and services. The world community has come to the concept of sustainable development and the transition to a "green" economy, which combine the achievement of self-sustaining economic growth with the provision of social protection of the population and minimization of negative impact on the environment. Today, institutional investors play a system-forming role in the implementation of this triune development strategy. The purpose of the article is to identify the increasing significance of institutional investors in the “green” socially responsible transformation of the global and national financial markets in the implementation of the UN SDGs in a number of developed and developing economies. Objectives, findings and discussion of the study: consideration of the prerequisites for analyzing the role of institutional investors in achieving the UN SDGs; global investors’ certain initiatives assessment that have been proposed as a paradigm for socially responsible and infrastructure investment at the national and international level; determination the role of various green institutional investors (quasi-public sector, banks, sovereign welfare funds, with the special attention to the insurance companies’ and pension funds’ role in green investments process) in the implementation ofthe green transformation of financial markets in some countries and regions of the world economy; identification the importance of the main investment channels of institutional investors in green infrastructure in the light of types of investment (direct, indirect mixed), kinds of investments (corporate, project, investment-target), general characteristics (description, advantages, scaling, profitability).