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Leveraging physical climate risk data

Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)
The report outlines data requirements for assessing physical climate risks, highlighting gaps in hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and adaptation information. It reviews emerging tools, stresses limitations in insurance and asset-level data, and recommends capacity building, collaboration, and improved data systems to enhance financial sector climate-risk analysis.
Research
29 September 2025

A just transition for the Amazon: A mission-oriented framework

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
A mission-oriented framework is proposed to drive a just transition in the Amazon by ending deforestation, restoring degraded land, and aligning green industrial strategies with local and Indigenous knowledge. It emphasises co-creation, redesigned public institutions, and partnerships that distribute benefits fairly while supporting sustainable, biodiversity-based development.
Research
24 October 2024

Private capital, public good: Building shared prosperity to create a resilient and inclusive economy

US Impact Investing Alliance
The report outlines bipartisan US federal policy recommendations to mobilise private capital for shared prosperity. It focuses on strengthening economic competitiveness, scaling community investing, and improving impact transparency to support inclusive growth, underinvested communities, and long-term economic resilience.
Research
12 October 2024

Starting in and transitioning into sustainable finance careers

Finance relevance: Finance and Sustainability Professionals; Finance and Sustainability Students
This guide explores ways to get started in and transition into sustainable finance careers. It focuses on how professionals can build foundational knowledge, apply transferable skills, and take opportunities to create impact. Through expert insights it highlights strategies to navigate evolving roles and align finance with real sustainability outcomes.
Expert guide
19 December 2025

Institutional investment in addictive industries: An important commercial determinant of health

The study examines how Tobacco-Free Finance Pledge signatories apply exclusion policies to addictive industries. Investors show diverse thresholds, with European institutions more likely to exclude alcohol, gambling, and cannabis. Reputational and compliance considerations dominate justifications, highlighting investment decisions as significant commercial determinants of health.
Research
14 October 2024

Integrating human rights due diligence (HRDD) in finance and investment

Finance relevance: Investment professionals
This guide provides practical steps for successful investor collaborations, helping investors navigate challenges, align on objectives and leverage collective influence. Drawing from expert insights and real-world case studies, it outlines effective governance, engagement strategies and resource management to drive measurable corporate and policy change through coordinated investor action.
Expert guide
8 December 2025

SDGs in Latin America and the Caribbean: Statistical knowledge management hub

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
The tool Regional Statistical Monitoring on the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) portal aggregates comparable regional data on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicators — combining global databases with regional-specific statistics and trend projections — to track progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Future fit shipping: Decarbonising the Aotearoa New Zealand maritime industry

The Aotearoa Circle
Aotearoa New Zealand’s maritime sector faces rising decarbonisation pressures. The report outlines emissions-reduction pathways, alternative fuel options, green corridor opportunities, and economic risks of inaction. It recommends coordinated planning, trans-Tasman collaboration, and enabling regulation to maintain trade competitiveness and support a lower-emissions shipping system.
Research
22 September 2025

Social benchmark 2024 insights report

World Benchmarking Alliance
This benchmark series assesses the world’s most influential companies on their human rights, decent work and ethical conduct practices. It provides a comparative view of corporate social performance, supporting stakeholders to understand progress, identify gaps and inform actions that contribute to a more inclusive and sustainable global economy.
Benchmark/series
1 July 2024

A legal framework for impact: Sustainability impact in investor decision-making

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
The report analyses how legal frameworks across major jurisdictions shape investors’ ability to pursue sustainability impact. It clarifies when impact-focused approaches are permitted or required and outlines policy options to support them. It provides guidance for aligning investment decisions with sustainability goals while maintaining financial objectives.
Research
23 July 2021

Responsible banking blueprint: A roadmap for action on climate, nature and biodiversity, healthy and inclusive economies and human rights

United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
This report outlines a blueprint for responsible banking, detailing how banks can embed climate, nature, human rights, and inclusive economy considerations into strategy, governance, client engagement, capital allocation and disclosure. It provides guidance on setting and implementing targets to align portfolios and practices with global sustainability frameworks.
Research
1 October 2024

A systems approach to sustainable finance: Actors, influence mechanisms, and potentially virtuous cycles of sustainability

This review examines how financial sector structures and actors influence sustainability outcomes through a systems lens. It identifies barriers such as inadequate metrics, poor risk integration, and limited understanding of complex dynamics, while highlighting collaboration opportunities between finance and science to align capital flows with long-term ecological resilience.
Research
18 July 2025

Social finance primer: A guide to the evolving role of measurement and evaluation in the social finance ecosystem

American Evaluation Association (AEA)
This report by the American Evaluation Association’s Social Finance TIG outlines the evolving role of measurement and evaluation within the social finance ecosystem. It explains key concepts in impact investing, frameworks for assessing outcomes, and the intersection between evaluation and social impact measurement, offering resources for practitioners.
Research
1 April 2024

Phenix Capital Group

Commercial Research Providers
Phenix Capital Group is an Amsterdam-based impact investing intelligence and advisory firm. It helps institutional investors and fund managers access curated impact fund data, conduct impact due diligence, and develop financial-first impact strategies tied to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Show me the (sustainable) money II: Investors that allocate capital to sustainability transitions

World Business Council for Sustainable Development
This report summarises asset managers allocating capital to sustainability and transition-focused investments. Published by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and SRI-Connect, it profiles firms investing in environmental, social and economic transition strategies to help companies attract sustainability-oriented investors.
Research
18 September 2025

Oxford university press

Academic Institutions
Oxford University Press (OUP) is a global academic and educational publisher. It operates as a department of the University of Oxford, producing textbooks, scholarly works, English language resources and reference works. OUP emphasises digital innovation, sustainability commitments, and broad international reach in research and education.
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