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ESG Integration and analysis
Tools, methodologies, and frameworks for embedding ESG factors into financial analysis, valuation, credit assessment, underwriting, and portfolio management, while separating out broader strategic elements.
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Adaptation and resilience impact measurement toolkit : A practical framework for financial institutions
Provides a practical framework for financial institutions to measure climate adaptation and resilience impacts. It sets principles, indicators and decision pathways across banks, insurers, DFIs and asset managers, linking outputs, outcomes and impacts to capital allocation, risk management, compliance and reporting.
UNICEF USA’s child lens investing series
This series outlines UNICEF’s Child-Lens Investing approach, providing practical guidance for investors to integrate children’s rights and well-being into investment strategy, due diligence, contribution, and measurement across asset classes. It supports consistent application of a child lens alongside established impact and ESG practices.
Geoportal.de
Geoportal.de is Germany’s national geospatial data portal, providing centralised access to official maps, datasets, and metadata from federal, state, and local authorities. It supports planning, environmental analysis, infrastructure development, and public-sector decision-making through standardised spatial data services.
Swiss Data Cube
The Swiss Data Cube is a national platform providing consistent, long-term Earth observation data for Switzerland. It supports environmental monitoring, trend analysis, and evidence-based decision-making relevant to climate, land use, and natural resource management.
NASA Earthdata GIS
NASA Earthdata GIS Portal provides web-based access to geospatial datasets, maps, and analytical tools covering climate, land, oceans, and atmosphere. It enables users to visualise, analyse, and download Earth observation data, supporting risk assessment, environmental monitoring, and evidence-based decision-making for finance and sustainability analysis.
NASA Earthdata VEDA Dashboard
The NASA Earthdata Dashboard is an interactive platform for discovering and exploring Earth observation datasets. It allows users to search, filter, and visualise data by theme and taxonomy, supporting analysis of climate, environmental, and geospatial information relevant to risk assessment and research.
WMS Warning Map for Heavy Rain Hazards (WMS Hinweiskarte Starkregengefahren)
WMS Hinweiskarte Starkregengefahren is a German national Web Map Service showing simulated heavy-rain hazard data, including maximum inundation depths, flow velocities and directions for extreme rainfall scenarios. It supports GIS integration and helps outline potential surface flood risk areas nationwide.
KanataQ Ltd
KanataQ Ltd provides climate and nature risk analytics for financial institutions, corporates and investors. It develops data-driven models, scenarios and tools to assess physical and transition risks, support regulatory reporting, and inform strategic decision-making across climate, ESG and sustainable finance, using forward-looking insights aligned with global climate frameworks and standards.
Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment
PACTA for Banks is a free, open-source climate scenario analysis toolkit that enables banks to assess how well their corporate lending portfolios align with climate scenarios, using sector and asset-level data to inform lending strategy and climate target-setting.
LSFI Data Platforms
The Luxembourg Sustainable Finance Initiative Tools page curates open-source data platforms supporting sustainable finance. It provides access to climate, biodiversity, social and transition-risk tools used for ESG integration, risk analysis, policy assessment and investment decision-making across financial institutions.
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.
UBA: Climate change and tourism (UBA: Klimawandel und Toursimsu)
An interactive German Environment Agency (UBA) GIS tourism map showing climatic trends for key travel regions in Germany, including visualised climate data, tables and time series to support analysis of climate impacts on tourism. It aids environmental and regional planning by linking spatial data to tourism-related climate indicators
GERICS: Climate Service Center Germany
This tool provides climate impact fact sheets for German rural districts (Landkreise), developed by GERICS. It offers region-specific climate indicators, projections, and risks to support evidence-based decision-making, adaptation planning, and risk assessment relevant to public authorities and finance professionals.
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.