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Tools and databases are resources designed to help members evaluate the sustainability impact and financial performance of investments or business decisions. Tools allow members to assess impact, model scenarios and enable informed decisions that align with sustainability goals.

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Circular Economy Policy Tracker

Chatham House's circulareconomy.earth is a platform that enables users to explore policy and trade dynamics related to the transition from linear to circular economic models. It offers analyses of opportunities and trade-offs associated with such transitions.
Online tool/database

Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard

The Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard, developed by the World Bank, G7, and partners, offers timely, high-quality data on food crises at both country and global levels. It provides insights into food insecurity, nutrition, and related indicators, supporting informed decision-making and policy development.
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Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT)

United Nations Environment Programme
IBAT is a live geospatial tool to identify where operations and supplier locations sit in areas of interest, like key biodiversity areas. Great screening tool, with an alert feature and visual outputs. It provides biodiversity data to support risk assessments and informed decision-making in investments.
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Fair Supply extinction risk assessment tool 

This tool assesses biodiversity risks in supply chains, enhancing sustainable sourcing and investment practices. It is designed to help users map impacts to species extinction along supply chains or investment portfolios, using an adaptation of the STAR metric. (Primary proxy: Species extinction risk)
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UNEP FI impact analysis tools for banks/investors

United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
This tool is designed for banks, investors and corporate clients and investee companies. The tool guides banks/investors through an impact analysis of their portfolios. Developed jointly with signatories from the PRB and UNEP FI, the tool helps banks/investors set targets.
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Net Environmental Contribution (NEC) metric

This tool measures the environmental impact of economic activity, company, or sector, to deliver a net contribution value on -100% to +100% scale, using physical data from across the value chain. It can be applied at company, portfolio, index, product/source levels. Includes qualitative and quantitative criteria on biodiversity.
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Global impact database's biodiversity impact data

This database offers comprehensive biodiversity impact data, enhancing ESG reporting and investment decisions. Biodiversity dataset can be used to assess the biodiversity impact of B2B interactions, investment portfolios and funds. Currently, it is being used by forward-thinking institutions – including a large Dutch bank and a large Dutch asset manager – to investigate the biodiversity impact of portfolios. (Primary proxies: Land use, water pollution, air pollution)
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SBTN sector materiality tool

United Nations Environment Programme
The aim of the Sectoral Materiality Tool is to help users carry out a first screening of what types of environmental impact are potentially materially relevant to their sector and their company's activities, as part of Step 1a of the SBTN guidance.
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Living Planet Index

World Wide Fund for Nature (World Wildlife Fund – WWF)
This index provides metrics and indices to assess the health of planet's biodiversity. It is widely used to inform policy and conservation efforts.
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IMPACT World+

IMPACT World+ is a globally regionalised method for life cycle impact assessment (LCIA), integrating multiple state-of-the-art developments as well as damages on water and carbon areas of concern within a consistent LCIA framework. Most of the regional impact categories have been spatially differentiated and all long-term impact categories have been subdivided into shorter-term damage (the first 100 years after the emission) and long-term damage categories.
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Forest IQ

Powered by data from Trase Earth, Forest IQ has been developed to support banks and investors assess and manage their exposure to deforestation risk. Forest IQ provides market leading data about corporate performance on deforestation impacts, land conversion, and natural ecosystem and human rights abuses. Trase Earth offers open source data that is free to download.
Online tool/database

GIIN's IRIS

Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
IRIS+ provides streamlined, practical, how-to guidance on integrating social and environmental factors into investment decision making. It is free to use.
Online tool/database

Indicators for the Kunming – Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

United Nations Environment Programme
This site provides information about the proposed indicators for the monitoring framework for the Post 2020 GBF.
Online tool/database

Species+

United Nations Environment Programme
Developed by UN WCMC and CITES Secretariat, Species + provides a central portal for accessing key information on species of global concern.
Online tool/database

Protected Planet

Protected Planet is the most up to date and complete source of data on protected areas and other effective are-based conservation measures (OECMs), updated monthly with submissions from governments, non-government organisations, landowners and communities.
Online tool/database

Land use finance impact hub 

United Nations Environment Programme
The hub hosts a collection of tools and guidance to help financial institutions harmonise environmental and social impact monitoring for sustainable land use finance.
Online tool/database
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