Search and navigate the Library
The Altiorem Library is designed to help you find credible, open-access content on sustainable finance and ESG issues quickly, confidently and in one place.
You can:
- Search by keyword, phrase or topic
- Apply filters using Altiorem’s taxonomy categories (e.g. sustainable finance practice, ESG issue, geography, SDG, finance relevance)
- Read research summaries to assess its relevance before reviewing the complete report
- Ask questions directly to reports using our AI tool (paid subscribers only) — for example:
- Does this report include case studies? If so, provide a summary of them.
- Is this suitable for early-career professionals?
- What are the risks or opportunities (if any) highlighted?
How do we decide what goes in the library?
Altiorem curates credible, freely accessible, evidence-based research and resources that supports sustainable finance learning and decision-making.
We include resources that meet five key principles:
1. Credible sources
Content must come from reputable organisations, such as governments, multilateral institutions, universities, NGOs, industry bodies, or established research providers, with the capacity to produce objective, analytical work.
2. Free and publicly accessible
All research in the library must be available without paywalls or proprietary access.
3. Relevant to sustainable finance
Resources must meaningfully contribute to understanding sustainable finance concepts or ESG issues and their implications for finance. This includes:
- Direct relevance: Research addressing financial risks, opportunities, regulation, corporate practices, or ESG integration.
- Foundational relevance: Issue-focused research (e.g. climate science, biodiversity, food systems, social conditions) that helps explain sustainability risks and material impacts relevant to finance.
- Systems thinking and alternative models: Work exploring Indigenous knowledge, non-Western governance approaches, and innovative economic or financial models that support a sustainable economy.
4. Useful for finance professionals
Research and resources must support better decision-making, whether through risk analysis, strategy, stewardship, policy insight, implementation guidance, frameworks, or foundational ESG education.
5. Evidence-based
Included resources contain data, analysis, methodology, case studies, or structured synthesis. We do include opinion-only content but that is in the form of articles only.
What we don’t include
We exclude:
- Promotional or marketing materials
- Corporate PR or annual reports
- High-level regulatory updates without analytical depth
- Unsupported advocacy or campaigning materials
- Unsourced explainers
- Proprietary or paid reports
- Low-rigour academic content
- Self-published work without credible backing
- Raw datasets without analysis (databases may be included separately)
- Tools or checklists without methodological justification
Our goal is to provide a trusted, practical, and intellectually rigorous resource that strengthens sustainable finance capability across the financial system.
How is the research categorised?
Altiorem’s research is categorised according to our comprehensive taxonomy of sustainable finance topics, which we developed through stakeholder engagement with industry and expert professionals, allowing our members to apply filters for precise searches.
- Sustainable Finance Practices (What SFP (s), e.g., governance and directors’ duties; active ownership, is the resource relevant to?)
- ESG issues (What ESG issue(s), e.g., biodiversity; human rights; corporate culture, is the resource relevant to?)
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (What SDG(s), e.g., No Poverty; Gender Equality, is the resource relevant to?)
- SASB sustainability sector (What SASB sector(s), e.g., Food & beverage; Infrastructure, is the resource relevant to?)
- Finance relevance (What financial group(s), e.g., banking and financing, is the resource relevant to?)
- Asset class (What asset class(es), e.g., real assets, is the resource relevant to?)
- Location (What locations(s) is the resource relevant to?)
- Tags (Tags are used for specific purposes. For example, we have a case studies tag that identifies all research that includes case studies within).
