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Escalation: The destructive force of Australia's fossil fuel exports on our climate

Australian Human Rights Institute
The report finds Australia’s fossil fuel exports significantly escalate global warming and domestic climate risks. It highlights missing policy restrictions, growing harms to people and systems, and urges an orderly, cooperative and just phase-out with regulatory reforms and international engagement.
Research
9 August 2024

Creating value from big data in the investment management process: A workflow analysis

CFA Institute
The report analyses how investment professionals use AI and big data, noting moderate but rising adoption, multihoming across tools, and key challenges including skills gaps, data quality, and model opacity. It highlights organisational priorities such as upskilling and workflow automation to enhance efficiency and decision making.
Research
7 January 2025

From ‘conflict minerals’ to peace? reviewing mining reforms, gender, and state performance in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

The review assesses how 3T mining reforms in eastern DRC affected state governance and gender inclusion. Findings show mixed results: limited improvements in demarcation, revenue collection and oversight, persistent armed interference, weak accountability, elite-captured cooperatives, and ongoing marginalisation of women.
Research
15 March 2021

Responsible Digital Finance Ecosystem (RDFE): A conceptual framework

Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
The report outlines a framework for a Responsible Digital Finance Ecosystem, urging holistic, collaborative consumer protection amid rising digital finance risks. It defines ecosystem actors and four pillars—customer centricity, collaboration, capability, and commitment—to strengthen regulation, improve outcomes, and reduce harms in rapidly evolving digital financial services.
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1 September 2024

The transition finance playbook: A practical guide for financial institutions

Accounting for Sustainability (A4S)
A practical guide outlining how financial institutions can scale transition finance through governance, eligibility criteria, portfolio segmentation, due-diligence enhancements and engagement. It highlights Canadian market context, barriers, and actionable “top tips” to support credible decarbonisation, stewardship and collaboration across the financial system.
Research
3 June 2025

Emerging market perspectives on business and human rights measures and economic development

FiftyEight
The report examines how business and human rights measures affect emerging-market suppliers, highlighting benefits such as market access and worker protections, alongside major compliance burdens and unintended consequences. It recommends bottom-up design, fairer contracting, capacity support and collaborative implementation to improve outcomes.
Research
1 January 2025

Elephant in the boardroom: People are missing in corporate supply chain goals

World Resources Institute
The report finds large companies emphasise environmental supply chain goals while rarely investing in people. Only 12% set worker-focused targets, and few pursue partnership-based approaches. It argues SMEs lack capacity to meet rising expectations and calls for people-centred, collaborative investment to support equitable supply chain transitions.
Research
1 September 2025

Advancing women’s financial inclusion: Guidelines to adopt a gender perspective in financial institutions

Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
The report outlines guidelines for financial institutions to integrate gender perspectives across governance, management, staffing, communications, and product design. It promotes data-driven policies, bias reduction, inclusive culture, tailored financial solutions for women, and strategic partnerships to enhance women’s financial inclusion and strengthen institutional performance.
Research
25 May 2025

Indigenous and local communities’ initiatives have transformative potential to guide shifts toward sustainability in South America

The study examines 127 Indigenous and local community initiatives in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia, identifying three clusters with strong transformative potential. These initiatives use co-designed knowledge and relational values to advance cultural and ecological stewardship, demonstrating significant capacity to influence sustainable, just development pathways.
Research
25 June 2025

Business frameworks and actions to support human rights defenders: A retrospective and recommendations

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
The report reviews how businesses can better respect and support human rights defenders by strengthening policies, due diligence, and accountability. It outlines emerging frameworks, examples of company action, implementation challenges, and recommendations for companies, investors, multistakeholder initiatives, and States to safeguard civic freedoms and address risks linked to business activities.
Research
16 July 2025

The price of work: A brief on widespread migrant worker recruitment fees in Taiwan’s manufacturing sectors

Transparentem
The report outlines evidence of high recruitment fees and related labour abuses faced by migrant workers in Taiwan’s manufacturing sectors. It summarises interviews, company responses, and emerging remediation efforts, highlighting ongoing risks of debt bondage and recommending that buyers adopt and enforce no-fee recruitment policies across their supply chains.
Research
24 February 2025

Planetary solvency – finding our balance with nature

Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA)
This report outlines how climate and nature risks threaten the Earth system that underpins economies and societies. It proposes a Planetary Solvency framework, using risk-led assessment principles to inform policymakers of escalating systemic risks, tipping points and mitigation needs, emphasising the urgency of realistic global risk management to avoid severe disruption.
Research
1 January 2025

Essential guide to valuations and climate change

Accounting for Sustainability (A4S)
This guide provides a framework for incorporating climate-related risks and opportunities into business valuations. It outlines a five-step process, highlights data and disclosure challenges, and illustrates application through case studies. The aim is to support more consistent, transparent and informed valuation practice as climate impacts become increasingly material.
Research
10 December 2020

Fake friend: How ChatGPT betrays vulnerable teens by encouraging dangerous behavior

Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)
This report examines how ChatGPT can expose teenagers to harmful content, including self-harm, disordered eating and substance abuse guidance. Researchers posing as 13-year-olds found safeguards were easily bypassed, with over half of tested prompts generating unsafe outputs. The report calls for stronger age controls, transparency, and safety enforcement.
Research
12 September 2025

Nature enters the boardroom

Australian Institute of Company Directors
This report examines how Australian boards are beginning to integrate nature into governance, identifying rising awareness of nature-related risks, early adoption of frameworks such as TNFD, and varied oversight and disclosure practices. It highlights barriers, emerging approaches, and the growing financial relevance of nature for organisational decision-making.
Research
20 November 2025

Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions

This paper argues that restoring wild animal populations can significantly enhance natural climate solutions by boosting carbon capture and storage across ecosystems. It presents evidence that animal-driven processes can help reduce emissions shortfalls and supports integrating trophic rewilding into climate and biodiversity policy.
Research
27 March 2023
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