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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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UNEP FI Sustainability Risk Tool Dashboard
The Sustainability Risk Tool Dashboard is an open-access database for financial institutions with an overview of 100+ environmental and social risk assessment tools, detailing features, metrics, methodologies, assumptions and common use cases to support sustainability risk analysis and comparison.
Swiss Data Cube
The Swiss Data Cube is a national platform providing consistent, long-term Earth observation data for Switzerland. It supports environmental monitoring, trend analysis, and evidence-based decision-making relevant to climate, land use, and natural resource management.
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Standards
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Standards provide open, internationally recognised specifications that enable interoperability of geospatial data, services, and applications. They support consistent data exchange across systems, improving integration, analysis, and decision-making for organisations using spatial information across public and private sectors.
NASA Earthdata GIS
NASA Earthdata GIS Portal provides web-based access to geospatial datasets, maps, and analytical tools covering climate, land, oceans, and atmosphere. It enables users to visualise, analyse, and download Earth observation data, supporting risk assessment, environmental monitoring, and evidence-based decision-making for finance and sustainability analysis.
NASA Earthdata VEDA Dashboard
The NASA Earthdata Dashboard is an interactive platform for discovering and exploring Earth observation datasets. It allows users to search, filter, and visualise data by theme and taxonomy, supporting analysis of climate, environmental, and geospatial information relevant to risk assessment and research.
WMS Warning Map for Heavy Rain Hazards (WMS Hinweiskarte Starkregengefahren)
WMS Hinweiskarte Starkregengefahren is a German national Web Map Service showing simulated heavy-rain hazard data, including maximum inundation depths, flow velocities and directions for extreme rainfall scenarios. It supports GIS integration and helps outline potential surface flood risk areas nationwide.
Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment
PACTA for Banks is a free, open-source climate scenario analysis toolkit that enables banks to assess how well their corporate lending portfolios align with climate scenarios, using sector and asset-level data to inform lending strategy and climate target-setting.
LSFI Data Platforms
The Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Initiative Tools page curates open-source data platforms supporting sustainable finance. It provides access to climate, biodiversity, social and transition-risk tools used for ESG integration, risk analysis, policy assessment and investment decision-making across financial institutions.
GHG Protocol Life Cycle Databases
The GHG Protocol Life Cycle Databases page lists third-party life cycle inventory and emissions datasets to support product life cycle and corporate value chain (Scope 3) greenhouse gas accounting. It links to multiple global and sector-specific LCI sources, with summaries of content, formats and accessibility.
openLCA Nexus
openLCA Nexus is an online repository providing access to life cycle assessment databases for environmental and sustainability analysis. It hosts free and licensed datasets from multiple providers, covering energy, materials, agriculture, transport and waste, designed for use within the openLCA software environment.
UBA: Climate change and tourism (UBA: Klimawandel und Toursimsu)
An interactive German Environment Agency (UBA) GIS tourism map showing climatic trends for key travel regions in Germany, including visualised climate data, tables and time series to support analysis of climate impacts on tourism. It aids environmental and regional planning by linking spatial data to tourism-related climate indicators
GERICS: Climate Service Center Germany
This tool provides climate impact fact sheets for German rural districts (Landkreise), developed by GERICS. It offers region-specific climate indicators, projections, and risks to support evidence-based decision-making, adaptation planning, and risk assessment relevant to public authorities and finance professionals.
Climate Central: Coastal Risk Screening Tool
The Coastal Risk Screening Tool by Climate Central provides interactive maps and data showing current and future coastal flood exposure from sea-level rise and storm surge. It supports financial risk assessment, asset screening, and location-based climate impact analysis for coastal regions.
WESR: Risk
WESR: Risk is an analytical tool that examines systemic environmental and societal risks and their potential economic impacts. It provides structured insights into risk drivers, interconnections and long-term trends, supporting high-level risk identification and contextual analysis for finance and investment decision-making.
WESR: Water
WESR – Water provides geospatial insights on water availability, stress, and related risks. It supports location-based assessment of water-related exposure, enabling finance professionals to integrate water risk considerations into investment analysis, risk management, and sustainability decision-making.
GIS-ImmoRisk Natural Hazard (GIS-ImmoRisk Naturgefahren)
GIS-ImmoRisk Naturgefahren is a German web-based GIS tool for assessing natural hazard exposure and property-specific risk from events such as floods, storms, heat and earthquakes. It combines location-based hazard data with building characteristics to inform risk analysis and investment decisions for real estate professionals.