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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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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.
Ecoinvent Association
Ecoinvent Association is a Swiss not-for-profit association providing one of the world’s most comprehensive Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases for environmental and sustainability assessments. Its transparent, high-quality environmental data supports life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon footprinting and supply chain impact analysis for researchers, companies and policymakers.
Climate Interactive
Climate Interactive creates and shares scientifically grounded climate simulators and interactive tools that help users explore climate solutions, energy policy impacts and systems thinking. It supports workshops, role-playing games and training to inform effective, equitable climate action worldwide, with tools like En-ROADS and C-ROADS widely used by educators and policymakers.
Climate Central
Climate Central is an independent, non-profit organisation that researches and communicates climate science. It produces data-driven analysis, visual tools, and reports on climate change, sea-level rise, and extreme weather. Climate Central supports journalists, decision-makers, and the public with accessible, evidence-based climate information for global risk assessment and climate literacy initiatives.
Climate fiduciaries: part I – the climate prisoner’s dilemma
This article explores how climate change is reshaping fiduciary duty for pension funds, through court cases, legal analysis, and the concept of systemic risk. It introduces the “climate prisoner’s dilemma,” arguing that climate-aware investment may be shifting from discretionary to obligatory for long-term fiduciaries.
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.
WESR: Mediterranean
The WESR: Mediterranean MapX project provides geospatial data on environmental stressors and ecosystem risks across the Mediterranean region. It supports analysis of climate, biodiversity and resource pressures, offering spatial evidence to inform environmental risk assessment and sustainability considerations relevant to finance and investment decision-making.
WESR: Mountain
WESR: Mountains on MapX is a geospatial tool that maps environmental and socio-economic indicators across mountain regions. It supports spatial analysis of climate, biodiversity and livelihoods, enabling evidence-based assessment of risks, resilience and sustainable development priorities in mountain ecosystems.
WESR: Ocean
WESR: Ocean provides high-level insights into ocean-related environmental risks and pressures, including marine ecosystems, pollution and resource use. It supports risk identification and contextual analysis for financial decision-making linked to ocean health, coastal exposure and sustainability considerations.
Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung)
Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBR) is a German federal research institute providing evidence-based analysis on building, housing, urban development, and spatial planning. BBR produces research, data, and policy advice supporting sustainable cities, regional development, infrastructure planning, and informed public decision-making across national and international policy contexts and programmes.
Deutsches Klimaportal
Deutsches Klimaportal’s Bauwesen section offers streamlined access to German climate services and data relevant to the built environment, drawn from national providers. It supports climate adaptation planning and decision-making for the construction sector with factual climate information and tools.
Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index (GIRI)
The Global Infrastructure Risk Model and Resilience Index (GIRI) is a public, probabilistic model estimating infrastructure risk from major geological and climate hazards and resilience across sectors. It provides metrics like Average Annual Loss to inform national infrastructure risk assessment and resilience planning.
UN Biodiversity Lab
UN Biodiversity Lab’s Earth map is a free, online spatial data tool that lets users view and interact with over 400 global biodiversity, climate change and sustainable development map layers for analysis and planning. It supports visualising, downloading and combining datasets to inform conservation and policy decisions.
Regional Climate Atlas of Germany (Regionaler Klimaatlas Deutschland)
Regionaler Klimaatlas Deutschland is an interactive web tool presenting over 120 regional climate scenarios for Germany. It summarises research on future climate change, enabling users to view projected changes in climate elements such as temperature, precipitation and wind at national and regional levels.