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Trellis Group

Commercial Organisations
Trellis Group (formerly GreenBiz) is a US-based sustainability media, events, and peer-network platform empowering sustainability professionals to confront the climate crisis.
Organisation
1 research item

AlphaGlass: Interpretable characteristic-based portfolio choice

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
AlphaGlass is an interpretable machine-learning framework for characteristic-based portfolio construction that directly optimises the Sharpe ratio. Applied to U.S. equities from 2000 to 2021, it achieves a monthly out-of-sample Sharpe ratio of 0.47, outperforming random forests, neural networks, and EBM benchmarks, while providing transparent attribution to firm characteristics.
Research
4 May 2026

How a surge in defence and dual-use technology investment could reconfigure the global AI race

Chatham House
This Chatham House paper examines four trends — rising defence and dual-use investment, the growth of 'patriotic tech', the push for sovereign AI, and concerns over an AI valuation bubble — that could multipolarise the global AI race, and offers recommendations for private sector preparedness.
Research
1 April 2026

Measuring the impact of data centers in the United States economy: Monetary damage from air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
This NBER working paper quantifies the environmental costs of US data centre electricity use in 2025. Using facility-level data for approximately 2,800 data centres, it estimates gross external damages of $24.6 billion from air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, with Texas and Virginia accounting for 30% of the national total.
Research
1 April 2026

Retreat or respect? Diverging corporate paths on human rights in a time of turbulence

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
This BHRC report examines how top US companies are responding to mounting pressure on human rights standards. It identifies three corporate pathways: active deregulatory lobbying by Big Oil and Big Tech, quiet retreat from human rights commitments, and continued adherence. Survey data from April 2026 reveals significant reductions in human rights staffing and budgets.
Research
29 June 2026

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Issue Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
The Thomson Reuters Foundation is the independent corporate charitable foundation of Thomson Reuters, working to strengthen free, fair, and informed societies through media freedom, legal services, and responsible business initiatives.
Organisation
1 research item

Labor market effects of California's $20 fast-food minimum wage

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
This NBER working paper examines the labour market effects of California's AB 1228, which raised the fast-food minimum wage to $20 per hour in April 2024. Across 32 QCEW and QWI specifications, wages rose by roughly 7 per cent with an own-wage elasticity of employment ranging from −0.29 to +0.26, indicating modest to no disemployment.
Research
16 May 2026

CAIA Association

Finance Industry Groups
CAIA Association is the global nonprofit professional body for alternative investment education and credentialing, best known for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Charter designation.
Organisation
1 research item

Ranking Digital Rights

Issue Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
An independent initiative that evaluates the world's most powerful digital platforms and telecommunications companies on their policies and practices affecting users' freedom of expression, privacy, and human rights.
Organisation
2 research items

TIIP: The Investment Integration Project

The Investment Integrated Project (TIIP)
TIIP develops tools and advisory services for system-level investing, helping institutional investors manage systemic risks related to climate change and inequality.
Online tool/database
22 August 2023

Where cultivated meat can be sold

The Good Food Institute (GFI)
An interactive tracker by The Good Food Institute mapping global regulatory approvals and market pathways for cultivated meat products.
Online tool/database

Anti-harassment policy and the startup labor market

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
This paper studies the effects of state-level NDA-weakening laws on hiring in over 50,000 U.S. VC-backed startups from 2014–2022. Anti-harassment reforms reduce female hiring by approximately 8%, concentrated among junior women and small startups, while also triggering internal restructuring including more female promotions and male manager departures.
Research
4 May 2026

Financial Transparency Coalition

Issue Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
A pioneering global network of civil society organisations and governments working to curtail illicit financial flows through advocacy for a transparent, accountable, and sustainable financial system.
Organisation
1 research item

The Swiss investors in the ICE system

BreakFree Suisse
This BreakFree Suisse research note examines Swiss institutional investors — including UBS, SNB, Zurich Insurance, and others — holding billions of dollars in US ICE contractors Palantir, AT&T, Geo Group, and CoreCivic. The report argues these investments conflict with the investors' stated human rights policies and ESG commitments.
Research
6 February 2026

Driving Australian climate innovation: Unlocking capital to support a clean industrial revolution

Investor Group on Climate Change
Commissioned by IGCC and authored by Pollination, this report reviews climate innovation policy in California, Denmark, the Netherlands, South Korea and Germany to identify gaps in Australia's policy landscape and recommend measures to drive transition industry investment, including strengthening the Safeguard Mechanism and establishing a national industrial strategy.
Research
6 April 2023

Market success of short-duration batteries paves the way for longer-lasting storage

Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)
Short-duration battery storage in the U.S. has grown 25x in five years, reaching 43,419 MW. This IEEFA report examines how that success is opening pathways for long-duration energy storage, driven by state mandates, data centre demand from AI companies, and advances in technologies including iron-air, liquid air, and carbon-oxygen systems.
Research
26 May 2026
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