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Appetite for disruption: A second serving
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.
Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative
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.
Directors' liability and climate risk: Comparative paper - Australia, Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom
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.
Criterion Institute
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.
Fiduciary duty in the 21st century: Final report
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.
TCFD good practice handbook
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.
Oxfam
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.
Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST)
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.
T100 Powered Ascent report: Insights from the frontiers of impact investing 2018
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.
Empty nets: How overfishing risks leaving investors stranded
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.
Investing in the global green economy: Busting common myths
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,
Sea Around Us
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.
Worldwide investments in cluster munitions: A shared responsibility
A 2018 report on worldwide investments in harmful cluster munitions. Two arms manufacturers recently ended production of cluster munitions, and more financial institutions and states are acting to end money going to producers. Despite declining investment from financial institutions, there are seven companies in the report still manufacturing.
Mercer
Mercer is an American human resources consulting firm that aims to redefine the world of work, reshape retirement and investment outcomes, and unlock real health and well-being. For more than 70 years, Mercer has been providing advice and solutions to build healthier and more sustainable futures for clients, colleagues and communities.
Focusing Capital on the Long Term Global
Focusing Capital on the Long Term Global (FCLTGlobal) is dedicated to developing practical tools and approaches that encourage long-term behaviours in business and investment decision-making. The focus of their work is on the financial needs and ambitions of everyday savers, whose own long-term goals are often lost in the complexity of the financial markets.
Corporate Knights
Corporate Knights produces research and rankings of financial products based on corporate sustainability performance and publishes a sustainable business magazine. The company is a certified B-Corp based in Canada.