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Forest IQ
Powered by data from Trase Earth, Forest IQ has been developed to support banks and investors assess and manage their exposure to deforestation risk. Forest IQ provides market leading data about corporate performance on deforestation impacts, land conversion, and natural ecosystem and human rights abuses. Trase Earth offers open source data that is free to download.
Land use finance impact hub
The hub hosts a collection of tools and guidance to help financial institutions harmonise environmental and social impact monitoring for sustainable land use finance.
Natural Capital Protocol
The Natural Capital Protocol provides a step-by-step guide for businesses to measure, value, and integrate natural capital into their operations. Divided into 9 stages, this comprehensive guide offers a practical approach to assess material risks and opportunities, communicate with stakeholders, and make informed decisions towards sustainable business practices.
Transparency in supply chains etc: A practical guide
This report provides updated guidance on compliance with the Modern Slavery Act 2015. It outlines requirements for businesses to produce annual statements detailing steps to prevent modern slavery in their operations and supply chains. The guide includes advice on statement structure, approval, publication, and responses to modern slavery incidents.
Outsized impact: How investment can address the systemic risk of LGBTQIA+ inequality?
This report examines the systemic inequity faced by the LGBTQIA+ community in the US, highlighting its significant economic consequences. It provides evidence of the positive link between LGBTQIA+ inclusion and financial performance, and outlines a framework for investors to advance LGBTQIA+ equity through system-level investing.
Climate scorpion – the sting is in the tail: Introducing planetary solvency
The report explores the risks and impact of climate change on a global scale. The report emphasises the need for a realistic risk assessment urgently and laying out a blueprint on developing a Planetary Solvency framework.
Experimental evidence for tipping points in social convention
This study shows the theoretical and empirical existence of a tipping point for changing social conventions. Minority groups can overturn established behaviour by reaching a critical mass, expected to vary depending on social setting. The findings offer insight for organizations with potential shifts in conventional behaviour.
Environmental sciences, sustainable development and circular economy: Alternative concepts for trans-disciplinary research
This report discusses the challenges and opportunities of trans-disciplinary research in environmental sciences. It explores three alternative environmental concepts: "environmental sciences", "sustainable development", and the increasingly popular "circular economy". The article clarifies their meaning and inter-relationship, helping trans-disciplinary researchers to understand the opportunities and challenges of each.
Global compact local networks: Accelerating national SDG implementation
The report emphasizes the role of responsible business in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlights the importance of local networks in mobilizing a global movement of companies committed to advancing the SDGs through capacity-building, awareness-raising, and collaboration.
Making global goals local business: A new era for responsible business
This report highlights the need for private sector involvement in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda. It showcases the progress made so far by various companies and organizations and the role they play in building a better world through responsible business practices.
Central banking and supervision in the biosphere: An agenda for action on biodiversity loss, financial risk and system stability
This report explores the role central banks and financial regulators can play to mitigate biodiversity loss risks. The report establishes that biodiversity loss poses a financial risk to the economy and makes recommendations for action.
Primer on climate change: Directors’ duties and disclosure obligations
This report provides an overview of contemporary evidence that climate change presents foreseeable, and in many cases material, financial and systemic risks that affect corporations and their investors. It discusses general climate obligations, directors' duties, disclosure obligations, and advice to directors, emphasising the importance of embedding climate change in financial risk management, disclosure, and supervisory practices.
Facilitating a circular economy for textiles workshop report
This report provides insights on the current status of circularity in the textile industry including waste generation, social and environmental impact, raw material use, and data challenges. The report highlights research needs, boundary-spanning tools, and standards to facilitate a circular economy.
Holistic portfolio construction with an impact lens: A vital approach for institutional asset owners in a changing world
This report highlights the importance for Institutional Asset Owners (IAOs) to apply an impact lens approach to their portfolio construction. By creating impact philosophies and policies, IAOs can align impact thematic(s) and drive an evolution towards providing both impact and financial returns to their beneficiaries.
Investor ESG guide on private security and human rights
This investor guide highlights that private security-related adverse human rights impacts are common and typically include excessive use of force, unfair working conditions and sexual exploitation. As fiduciaries, institutional investors are obligated to identify and mitigate these potential adverse impacts.
Truth in impact: A Tideline guide to using the impact investment label
This report provides insights on sustainable investing labelling. Investors can self-classify and maintain market integrity through clear, accurate labelling backed by independent verification. The report offers a proprietary Framework for Impact Labeling, case studies, and observations about sustainable investing.