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The environmental pillar in ESG (environmental, social, and governance) assesses an organisation’s impact on the planet. It includes issues such as climate change, biodiversity, waste management and water management. Strong environmental practices help businesses reduce risks, comply with regulations, and drive long-term sustainability.
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How can pharma get the few promising drugs in development to patients battling superbugs?
This report examines the barriers to bringing new antibiotics to market, highlighting funding gaps, regulatory uncertainty, and weak commercial incentives. It outlines policy solutions to improve access and development, aiming to address the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by supporting viable pathways for pharmaceutical innovation.
Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS)
Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) is a Hamburg-based research institute established in 2009 under Germany’s high-tech strategy. As part of Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, GERICS employs an interdisciplinary team of over 80 scientists. It develops prototype climate-service products—such as fact-sheets, city series and signal maps—to support decision-makers adapting to climate change.
IMPACT2C Project Consortium
IMPACT2C provides evidence on impacts of +2 °C global warming across Europe and vulnerable regions (Bangladesh, Nile/Niger basins, Maldives). Using multi‑model climate and sectoral analyses—covering water, energy, infrastructure, coasts, tourism, forestry, agriculture, ecosystems and health—it quantifies risks, economic costs and adaptation uncertainty for policy planning.
Climate impacts online (KlimafolgenOnline)
A free, interactive web tool developed by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, KlimafolgenOnline provides country‑ and region‑level projections—using historical observations and future scenarios—for multiple sectors, including agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, tourism and health. It enables visualisation of climate impacts via maps and charts.
WetterOnline
WetterOnline provides reliable weather forecasts, real-time rain and lightning radar, health-weather, sailing and snow-sports insights via app and web. Founded in 1996, it delivers multilingual weather data in over 40 countries. One of Germany’s most visited meteorological platforms.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is a leading interdisciplinary German research institute advancing the science of climate impacts and global sustainability. With around 480 international staff, PIK conducts Earth-system modelling, integrated analysis and policy advisory to support evidence-based climate solutions. Member of the Leibniz Association.
Copernicus interactive climate atlas (C3S atlas)
The Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas (C3S Atlas) is a web‑based tool from the Copernicus Climate Change Service offering flexible exploration of past, present and future climate data. It integrates observational, reanalysis and projection datasets, and allows users to customise regional analyses and visualise key climate variables via maps, charts and time series.
Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA)
Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA) is a joint research centre of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and University of Cantabria. Established in 1995, IFCA specialises in particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, advanced computing and instrumentation. It publishes 200+ annual papers and leads internationally funded frontier‑science projects.
Predictia Intelligent Data Solutions
Predictia delivers AI‑powered custom software for climate, weather and health data. Founded in 2008 as a spin‑off from the University of Cantabria, it specialises in data management, modelling and visualisation across sectors such as Earth sciences, remote sensing and industry 4.0, supporting informed decision‑making for adaptation and mitigation.
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) delivers authoritative, free-to-access climate data, tools and projections. It supports EU adaptation and mitigation policy by providing accurate information on past, present and future climate. Serving scientists, policymakers, media and public, C3S enables informed climate action via trusted Earth-observation insights.
Climate impact explorer
The Climate Impact Explorer is a web‑based visualisation tool by Climate Analytics that presents maps and graphs of projected climate‑change impacts such as temperature, precipitation and economic damages across global regions and provinces under different warming levels (e.g. 1.5 °C, 2 °C) and emission scenarios.
Sizing the inevitable investment opportunity: Climate adaptation
This report estimates the climate adaptation market will grow from US\$1tn in 2024 to US\$4tn by 2050, with US\$2tn driven by global warming. Investment opportunities could reach US\$9tn, spanning emerging and established solutions, largely resilient to climate scenario differences over the next 25 years.
Local sea-level projections
This tool shows local sea-level projections (relative to 2000) using tide-gauge and gridded data from Kopp et al (2014), extended by Rasmussen et al (2018) and Bamber et al (2019). It provides scenarios labelled RCP26, RCP45 and RCP85, with uncertainty ranges and attention to regional differences.
Climate Analytics
Climate Analytics is a global climate science and policy institute driving climate action aligned to the 1.5 °C warming limit. It empowers vulnerable countries via targeted research, analysis, diplomacy and tools—from impact and risk assessment to decarbonisation pathways—to inform national planning and international negotiations.
GRI risk viewer
The Global Resilience Index (GRI) Risk Viewer provides global‑scale risk metrics across hazard, exposure and vulnerability to assess risks to people, planet and prosperity via open, publicly available datasets.
Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (OPSIS)
Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (OPSIS) delivers research and education on resilient, sustainable infrastructure across energy, transport, water and digital systems. Based at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, OPSIS develops system‑of‑systems models to assess climate risks and support data‑driven decision‑making for infrastructure resilience.