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Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions, including carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat in the atmosphere and drive climate change. Reducing emissions is vital to mitigating global warming risks and aligning with climate targets like the Paris Agreement, influencing long-term corporate and investment strategies.
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Directors’ duties navigator: Climate risk and sustainability disclosures series
This is a series of legal and governance primers examining directors’ duties and corporate disclosure obligations in relation to climate and sustainability risks. It provides jurisdictional analysis and practical guidance to support board oversight, risk management and reporting as regulatory and market expectations evolve.
Global climate highlights series
This benchmark series provides a recurring, standardised overview of global climate conditions, produced using consistent observational and reanalysis datasets. It tracks changes across key climate indicators to support comparability over time and inform assessment of longer-term climate trends within a recognised reference framework.
RETScreen
RETScreen is a clean energy management software developed by Natural Resources Canada to assess renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. It supports feasibility analysis, financial evaluation, energy performance tracking and greenhouse gas emissions analysis using integrated global climate, cost and benchmark datasets.
Carbon Majors
Carbon Majors is a public database that quantifies historical and current greenhouse gas emissions attributable to major fossil fuel producers. It provides company-level data, methodologies, and analysis to support climate risk assessment, policy research, and accountability across financial, regulatory, and academic contexts.
Upright Net Impact Model
Upright Platform offers impact-based ESG analytics that quantify companies’ positive and negative effects across environmental, social and economic dimensions. The S&P 500 ESG preset enables benchmarking of index constituents using monetised impact data to support portfolio analysis and comparability.
Climate Accountability Institute
Climate Accountability Institute (CAI) is a nonprofit research organisation advancing climate accountability through analysis of fossil fuel company emissions. It produces the Carbon Majors database, reports and datasets used by researchers, policymakers and litigators to assess corporate responsibility, climate risk, and transition pathways globally for energy systems and emissions transparency.
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an independent intergovernmental organisation providing global numerical weather prediction and climate data. ECMWF supports forecasting, climate risk analysis, Copernicus services, research, and decision-making through high-resolution models, reanalysis datasets, and open scientific expertise.
Climate Impact Attribution
Carbon Brief’s Attribution Studies Interactive Map is a searchable database mapping published climate-event attribution research. It shows how climate change influenced the likelihood or severity of extreme weather events globally, categorised by country and event type, with visual indicators of study findings on human-caused warming.
TransitionArc
TransitionArc is a public-facing platform that aggregates leading corporate climate transition data and analysis, enabling comparison of companies’ progress on science-aligned targets and disclosure metrics to support investment, engagement and policy decisions. It streamlines disparate assessments into a coherent view of corporate transition performance
Sustainability Reporting Navigator
Sustainability Reporting Navigator (SRNAV) is an online database and benchmarking platform providing access to over 500 mandatory CSRD sustainability reports, interactive comparison tools and research insights to support systematic analysis of corporate sustainability disclosures. It includes a free benchmarking hub for reports and disclosure data under the EU CSRD regime. Accounting Research Centre (ARC) is a research centre operated within the EAA, created to develop and host research tools and databases such as SRNAV.
Climate arc
Climate Arc is a non-profit organisation focused on accelerating capital flows to climate solutions. It develops data tools, research, and insights to assess transition performance across companies, sectors, and markets. Climate Arc supports investors, policymakers, and practitioners seeking credible, decision-useful climate intelligence, with a global perspective and independent analytical approach.
Climate transition and global financial stability
This literature review assesses evidence on how delayed, failed or uneven climate transitions affect UK and global financial stability. It finds intensifying physical and transition risks, potential mispricing and spillovers, and significant uncertainty, highlighting EMDE transitions as central to managing systemic financial risk.
En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator
En-ROADS is an interactive global climate and energy policy simulation tool developed by Climate Interactive. It enables users to test policy scenarios and assess impacts on emissions, energy systems and temperature pathways to 2100, supporting climate risk analysis, strategy development and decision-making.
Global Energy Monitor
Global Energy Monitor is an open-access research database that compiles and analyses global energy infrastructure data, including fossil fuel and renewable projects, via interactive tools, maps and downloadable datasets to support informed analysis of energy trends and ownership structures.
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.