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ISS

Commercial Research Providers
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) provides corporate governance and responsible investment market intelligence, fund services, events and editorial content for investors and companies. The company's overall aim is to empower investors and companies to build long-term and sustainable growth through high-quality data, analytics, and insights.
Organisation
3 research items

MinterEllison

Commercial Organisations
MinterEllison is an Australian law firm, providing legal and consulting services through a global network of branches and affiliated entities. This includes advising on climate risk governance and the expectations of regulators and the community on environment, social and governance issues. It participates in climate change related initiatives.
Organisation
4 research items

Investor Alliance for Human Rights

Issue Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
The Investor Alliance for Human Rights is a membership based, non-profit initiative focusing on the investor responsibility to respect human rights, corporate engagements that drive responsible business conduct, and standard setting activities that push for robust business and human rights public policies.
Organisation
10 research items

Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)

Finance / Corporate Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
The Global Impact Investing Network (“GIIN”) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. The GIIN seeks to facilitate knowledge exchange, highlight innovative investment approaches, build the evidence base, and produce valuable tools and resources to support the development of the impact investing industry.
Organisation
10 research items

Appetite for disruption: A second serving

Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return (FAIRR)
This report explores the growth of the alternative protein market, particularly in the face of supply chain disruptions, food safety concerns from COVID-19, and global emissions. This is published alongside FAIRR's Sustainable Proteins Hub, an interactive tool which allows investors to assess how companies are diversifying toward alternative, climate-positive portfolios.
Research
27 July 2020

Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative

Other Industry / Sector Specific Groups & Sponsored Organisations
Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI) is a research, education and outreach project focused within four Commonwealth countries: Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom. It examines the legal basis and obligations that directors and trustees have in response to climate change risk.
Organisation
6 research items

Directors' liability and climate risk: Comparative paper - Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom

Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative
The report provides a high-level legal analysis of directors' duties that relate to climate risk in four major Commonwealth countries: Australia, Canada, South Africa and United Kingdom. It captures the evolving priorities of organisations and their need to provide greater transparency on climate risks.
Research
31 October 2019

Criterion Institute

Finance / Corporate Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
A non-profit think tank that works with social change-makers to demystify finance and broaden their perspective on how to engage with and shift financial systems. Working to transform relationships of power in finance by equipping leaders to engage systems of finance and reimagine new approaches to investment strategies.
Organisation
2 research items

Fiduciary duty in the 21st century: Final report

United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
This is the final report from a four-year, multi-stakeholder/multi-jurisdiction research and engagement exercise. It demonstrates that environmental, social and governance integration is a component of investors' fiduciary duty. In order to fulfill this duty, regulators and policymakers must better understand fiduciaries’ needs and establish policies that support this approach.
Research
31 October 2019

TCFD good practice handbook

Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB)
This Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) handbook provides examples of good practice climate-related financial disclosures across the four core TCFD elements of governance, strategy, risk management, metrics and targets from corporates across the G20.
Research
30 September 2019

Oxfam

Issue Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
Oxfam is a global movement of international confederations that work together to fight inequality and poverty. They work directly with communities and seek to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives and livelihoods, and have a say in decisions that affect them.
Organisation
6 research items

Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST)

Government Sponsored / Multilateral Organisations
FAST Initiative (Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking) works to mobilise the financial sector to combat modern slavery and human trafficking. It provides tools, resources, and guidance to financial institutions, policymakers, and businesses. FAST Initiative promotes responsible finance practices to prevent exploitation and supports global efforts to eradicate forced labour and trafficking.
Organisation
10 research items

T100 Powered Ascent report: Insights from the frontiers of impact investing 2018

Toniic
The Powered Ascent report is the second in the T100 Impact Portfolio Series. The T100 Project is a longitudinal study of the impact investing experience of Toniic 100% Impact Network members. The report combines an analysis of investment portfolio data from 76 members with stories of their personal journeys.
Research
31 May 2018

Empty nets: How overfishing risks leaving investors stranded

Asia Research & Engagement (ARE)
In a report written under the Fish Tracker Initiative, this document provides an overview of seafood exposure in equity capital markets, focusing on fishing related risks. This report is written with the purpose of aligning the world's capital markets with sustainable management of fisheries and aquaculture.
Research
8 November 2017

Investing in the global green economy: Busting common myths

FTSE Russell
Analysis by FTSE Russell suggests that the transition to a sustainable green economy is a large investment opportunity, backed by global efforts to combat climate change and broader environmental challenges, that can deliver outperformance of the global equity market,




Research
31 May 2018

Sea Around Us

Scientific Bodies
Sea Around Us is a research initiative at the University of British Columbia that assesses the impact of fisheries on the marine ecosystems of the world, and offers mitigating solutions to a range of stakeholders. They provide free charts, and both reported and estimated catch data, from across the globe.
Organisation
1 research item
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