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Evidensia

ISEAL Alliance
Evidensia is an open-access platform that curates and synthesises credible research on the sustainability impacts of supply chain initiatives and tools. It enables users to access, interpret and compare evidence, supporting informed decision-making and improving the effectiveness of market-based sustainability approaches.
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Our Watch: Change the story and key frameworks

Our Watch
Change the Story is an evidence-based national framework developed by Our Watch to guide the primary prevention of violence against women in Australia. It examines social, economic and cultural drivers of gender inequality and outlines coordinated actions across institutions and communities to address these underlying causes.
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Investor democracy

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
Examines investor democracy in pension funds using deliberative mini-publics and a binding member vote. Finds informed deliberation shifts preferences towards impact investing despite potential lower returns, with broader member support leading to increased allocations, demonstrating how structured participation can guide sustainable investment decisions.
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13 February 2026

Roadmap for ASEAN sustainable capital markets

ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF)
Provides a five-year strategic roadmap to develop ASEAN sustainable capital markets, outlining four priority areas: strengthening disclosures, expanding sustainable products, building capacity, and enhancing regional connectivity. It aims to mobilise private capital, improve transparency, and align markets with sustainability goals and international frameworks.
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ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF)

Government Sponsored / Multilateral Organisations
ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF) is a regional body of ASEAN regulators that promotes capital market integration, sustainable finance and cross-border investment. It develops frameworks such as the ASEAN Taxonomy and ESG disclosure guidance, supporting harmonised regulations, corporate governance and capacity building across Southeast Asia’s financial markets.
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ESRS–ISSB standards: Interoperability guidance

International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)
Guidance outlines alignment between ESRS and ISSB sustainability standards, focusing on climate disclosures, materiality and reporting requirements. It maps corresponding provisions, highlights differences, and explains how entities can achieve compliance with both frameworks to improve efficiency and consistency in sustainability reporting.
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1 May 2024

ASEAN SDG Bond Toolkit

Climate Bonds Initiative
Provides practical guidance for issuing SDG bonds in ASEAN, outlining principles, processes, and frameworks aligned with green, social and sustainability bond standards. It explains SDG mapping, eligibility criteria, reporting practices, and market context to support issuers in mobilising capital for sustainable development.
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1 December 2021

UNESCO Digital Library

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
UNESDOC is UNESCO’s digital library providing open access to over 350,000 publications, reports, and archival materials across education, science, culture, and communication. It serves as a central repository of UNESCO’s institutional knowledge, supporting research, policy analysis, and informed decision-making on global development issues.
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Harnessing Climate and SDGs Synergies

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
UN resources on climate–SDG synergies examine how integrated approaches to climate action and sustainable development can deliver social, economic and environmental co-benefits. They highlight policy alignment, investment efficiency, and cross-sector strategies to support national planning, reduce costs, and address significant climate and SDG financing gaps.
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Handbook of sustainable finance

This handbook explains sustainable finance concepts, ESG scoring, regulation, reporting, sustainable products, impact investing, biodiversity, climate risk measurement, transition and physical risk modelling, portfolio construction, stress testing and risk management for finance practitioners.
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9 February 2026

Systemic Impact Investment Standard

The Systemic Impact Investing Standard is an independently audited framework enabling asset owners to assess whether asset managers’ strategies, processes and outcomes align with delivering systemic impact. It supports improved investment decision-making by emphasising sourcing, management and measurement practices that generate credible, system-level social and environmental outcomes.
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24 October 2025

UK Stewardship Code 2026

Financial Reporting Council (FRC)
The UK Stewardship Code (2026) sets voluntary principles for asset owners, managers and service providers to demonstrate effective stewardship through transparent, outcomes-focused reporting, supporting responsible capital allocation and long-term value creation for clients and beneficiaries.
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3 June 2026

The Core Carbon Principles (CCPs)

Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)
The Core Carbon Principles are a global benchmark developed by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market to assess the quality of carbon credits. They set standards for transparency, governance and environmental integrity, helping market participants identify credible credits and improve confidence in voluntary carbon markets.
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27 July 2023

Sustainability-linked bond handbook

Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute
The Sustainability-Linked Bond Handbook provides a practical overview of sustainability-linked bonds, covering structure, pricing models and market dynamics. It combines financial analysis with sustainability considerations and includes over 40 case studies, offering guidance for investors and issuers on integrating these instruments into fixed income strategies.
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13 May 2024

A systems approach to sustainable finance: Actors, influence mechanisms, and potentially virtuous cycles of sustainability

This review applies systems thinking to sustainable finance, analysing key actors, influence mechanisms and feedback loops. It identifies barriers such as weak ESG metrics and poor risk integration, and highlights opportunities for collaboration to align capital flows with sustainability and ecological resilience.
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18 July 2025

Sectoral roadmaps as the backbone of transition planning: Linking NDCs, finance and the real economy

United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
Sectoral roadmaps translate national climate targets into sector-specific decarbonisation pathways, guiding policy, investment and corporate transition plans. They align real-economy activity with finance, reduce uncertainty, and support risk assessment and capital allocation, strengthening the credibility and implementation of whole-economy transition planning.
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16 April 2026
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