Library | Resource Types

Research

We summarise credible research and reports on sustainable finance and ESG issues. Our summaries, along with our AI ChatBot saves members time reading large reports, to focus on knowledge building and action.

Refine
Resource type
Sustainable Finance Practices
ESG issues
SDGs
SASB Sustainability Sector
Finance relevance
Asset Class
Location
TAG
1232 results
REFINE
SHOW: 16

From discovery to delivery: Finding an investment edge in biopharma services

McKinsey & Company
This report summarises growth opportunities for private equity in biopharma supply chain services, a $77 billion profit pool, despite recent deal declines. Key areas include innovative large modalities like ADCs, niche inputs, sterile fill-finish, and GLP-1 delivery devices.
Research
19 January 2025

Governance of AI adoption in central banks

Bank for International Settlements
This BIS report outlines central banks’ AI use cases, associated strategic, operational, cyber and reputational risks, and advocates adapting existing risk-management and three-lines-of-defence frameworks, supported by an adaptive AI governance model and ten practical actions, to balance innovation with security, compliance, data privacy and organisational resilience.
Research
29 January 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

Mana Kai: A framework for korero on enhancing Aotearoa New Zealand's food system

The Aotearoa Circle
The report outlines a framework to guide discussion on improving Aotearoa New Zealand’s food system. It highlights current health, environmental, economic and community challenges and presents a Māori-informed approach to support sustainable, equitable and resilient food outcomes through shared values, collaboration and long-term system stewardship.
Research
1 November 2021

The Mana Kai Initiative: The purpose and values of Aotearoa New Zealand’s food system

The Aotearoa Circle
The report outlines a Te Ao Māori–led framework for Aotearoa New Zealand’s food system, highlighting environmental regeneration, equitable food access, cultural values, health outcomes and economic resilience. It presents tensions within the current system and proposes collaborative actions to guide a sustainable, inclusive and nationally aligned approach to producing, distributing and consuming kai.
Research
24 November 2022

The Mana Kai initiative: Priority action areas plan

The Aotearoa Circle
The report outlines eight priority actions to strengthen Aotearoa New Zealand’s food system. It emphasises shared values, collaboration, equitable access to nutritious kai, sustainable production, improved school food provision, updated dietary guidance, ocean and land regeneration, and an informed national conversation on biotechnology.
Research
30 November 2022

Future fit shipping: Decarbonising the Aotearoa New Zealand maritime industry

The Aotearoa Circle
Aotearoa New Zealand’s maritime sector faces rising decarbonisation pressures. The report outlines emissions-reduction pathways, alternative fuel options, green corridor opportunities, and economic risks of inaction. It recommends coordinated planning, trans-Tasman collaboration, and enabling regulation to maintain trade competitiveness and support a lower-emissions shipping system.
Research
22 September 2025

Agriculture sector climate change scenarios

The Aotearoa Circle
The report outlines climate change scenarios for New Zealand’s agriculture sector, assessing physical and transition risks across regions and farm systems. It presents orderly, disorderly and hothouse futures, highlighting impacts on production, land use and communities, and providing a foundation for sector-wide resilience planning and adaptation.
Research
12 June 2025

Agriculture sector climate change scenarios and adaptation roadmap

The Aotearoa Circle
The report outlines climate change risks and opportunities for New Zealand’s agriculture sector, presenting shared scenarios and an adaptation roadmap. It identifies key challenges, drivers of change and priority actions to strengthen resilience, guide investment, support innovation and enable a coordinated, sector-wide response.
Research
1 June 2023

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
PREV
4 of 77
NEXT
Join or sign in to use Alma, Altiorem’s AI Agent. While the Altiorem library is free, Alma is exclusive to paying subscribers.