This article applies a systems lens to stewardship, arguing that fragmented intermediation and entrenched short-term time horizons undermine sustainability outcomes. It calls for recognising these structural barriers as a critical step toward more effective, systems-informed stewardship.

An assessment of 85 countries against the ASCOR framework, evaluating sovereign climate performance across emissions pathways, climate policies, and finance to inform investor decision-making and engagement.

This benchmark series presents forward-looking assessments of global energy, land use and nature transitions. It consolidates expert judgement with structured policy tracking to outline plausible transition pathways across major economies, supporting investors and financial institutions in scenario analysis, risk assessment and strategic planning.

Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) is a climate policy analysis initiative focused on forecasting government responses to climate change. IPR produces investor-focused research, scenarios and tools, including the Transition Monitor, to assess transition risk, policy timing and financial impacts across sectors and regions for global financial markets and capital allocation decisions.

Climate Engagement Canada is an investor-led collaborative initiative supporting corporate climate action in Canada. It engages companies on net-zero alignment, climate governance and transition planning, using benchmarks, dialogue and public reporting to drive accountability, manage climate risk and support a just transition.

Climate Engagement Canada is a public database that tracks and analyses climate-related engagement activities by Canadian institutional investors. It provides company-level information on engagement themes, progress, and outcomes to support transparency, accountability, and informed assessment of investor stewardship practices.

Net Zero Tracker is a publicly accessible database tracking net zero targets and progress of countries, regions, cities and companies. It standardises information on pledges, legal status and implementation, supporting comparison, accountability and evidence-based analysis of climate commitments.

The article explores how pension funds rely on imperfect climate models to assess financial risk and whether fiduciary duty requires deeper scrutiny of their assumptions. It highlights emerging legal challenges, model limitations, and the shift toward richer scenarios and climate narratives in investment decision-making.

This report examines how pension systems reliant on perpetual economic growth face systemic financial, social and environmental risks. It proposes reorienting pensions towards a post-growth framework, emphasising wellbeing and multicapital outcomes over financial returns alone, and outlines pathways and barriers for pension fund reform.

This study develops a climate risk index for 1,455 US municipal drinking water utilities and compares projected risks with municipal bond disclosures. It finds material mismatches between climate risk and disclosure, highlighting utilities where climate adaptation and financial risk management may be insufficient.

The Gender Equality Report & Ranking is an annual benchmark series, first launched in 2017, that assesses corporate gender equality across publicly listed companies using Equileap’s proprietary scorecard. It enables investors and finance professionals to compare company performance, monitor progress and incorporate gender equality considerations into investment analysis.

This series provides an overview of the artisanal and small-scale mining sector, examining its structure, operating context, and governance considerations. It explores economic, social, environmental, and regulatory dimensions to support informed analysis, comparison, and ongoing assessment of developments across the sector over time.

This benchmark series provides an annual, country-level assessment of how governments and employers respect internationally recognised labour rights. It offers a consistent framework to compare workers’ rights protections across regions and over time, supporting analysis of legal conditions, enforcement practices, and systemic risks affecting working people.

PAS 7342:2025 sets out specifications for designing, implementing, monitoring and communicating sustainability attributes of sustainable investment funds. It provides requirements to support clear objectives, governance, evidence, disclosures and labelling, aiming to reduce greenwashing and improve consistency in fund communication.

This investor briefing examines how nature-related physical, transition and system-level risks translate into financial risks for investors. It outlines macroeconomic and company-level impacts, and describes how institutional investors can integrate nature considerations into investment strategies, stewardship and policy engagement.

The SASB Standards Navigator is an online database that enables users to explore industry-specific sustainability disclosure standards. It allows comparison of topics, metrics, and guidance across industries to support consistent ESG analysis and corporate reporting aligned with investor needs.