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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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NGFS Scenarios Portal
The NGFS Scenarios Portal is a publicly available database developed by the Network for Greening the Financial System, providing harmonised climate and macroeconomic scenarios. It supports central banks and supervisors in assessing short- and long-term climate-related financial risks through consistent, transparent scenario analysis.
Electricity Maps
Electricity Maps is a global electricity data platform offering historical, real-time and forecasted information on generation mix, carbon intensity, prices and flows via interactive maps and an API. It supports integration into applications for sustainability insights, carbon accounting and energy analysis across regions worldwide.
WESR: Air Visual
The IQAir × UNEP air quality tool aggregates real-time PM2.5 data from thousands of monitors worldwide to show current air pollution exposure and estimates by age group, relative to WHO guidelines. It supports global air quality assessment through an interactive map and hourly updated exposure statistics.
UNEP Strata
UNEP Strata is a free, web-based geospatial platform that maps where climate, environmental and security stresses overlap with socio-economic vulnerabilities to support analysis, planning and monitoring by practitioners, analysts and policymakers.
Minamata Convention Data Platorm
Minamata Convention Data Platorm is an open-source, cloud-based geospatial platform for managing, analysing and visualising spatial data on natural resources and the environment. It supports dashboards, maps and story maps to aggregate and share authoritative data for decision-making and impact monitoring.
World Bank CMIP5 Global Climate Change Viewer
The World Bank’s Climate Knowledge Portal – CMIP5 section provides access to historical and future climate projections based on the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5. It supports analysis of temperature, precipitation and climate risks for countries/regions using multi-model ensemble data to inform climate risk assessment and adaptation planning.
FIRMS Fire Information for Resource Management System
NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides global near-real-time satellite data on active fires and thermal anomalies, viewable via interactive maps, alerts and downloadable files. It uses MODIS and VIIRS instruments to detect fire locations and deliver data within hours for monitoring, analysis and decision-making.
Éclaircies
Éclaircies is an independent expert collective producing open-source climate, energy and environmental analysis. It develops data tools, methodologies and reports to improve transparency on fossil fuel exposure, emissions and transition risks. Outputs support researchers, journalists, civil society and policymakers seeking evidence-based insights across global climate finance and energy systems worldwide.
Data for Good
data.org is a global initiative advancing data science and artificial intelligence for social impact. It convenes governments, foundations and practitioners, funds innovation challenges, publishes applied research, and builds capacity to use data responsibly across climate, health, equity and development, supporting evidence-based decision-making worldwide through partnerships, training programmes and open collaboration.
Climate risk index series
The Climate Risk Index is an annual benchmark series that compares countries’ exposure and vulnerability to extreme weather events using a consistent, historical, data-driven framework. Across all editions, it supports comparative assessment of physical climate risk over time and informs policy, risk analysis, and climate-aware financial decision-making.
Scaling finance for nature: Barrier breakdown
This report analyses barriers to scaling private finance for nature, highlighting a US$700 billion annual biodiversity finance gap. It clarifies nature-positive finance, assesses risk–return challenges, regulatory gaps and data issues, and outlines instruments to redirect capital from harmful activities towards halting and reversing nature loss.
Assessing the credibility of a company’s transition plan: framework and guidance
This report presents a harmonised framework to assess the credibility of corporate climate transition plans. It defines core plan elements, assessment principles, and a four-step process to evaluate ambition, feasibility, consistency, governance, and financial alignment with Paris-aligned decarbonisation pathways.
Doing business within planetary boundaries
This report argues that corporate reporting must incorporate absolute, location-specific environmental impacts aligned with planetary boundaries. It proposes science-based disclosures and the Earth System Impact score to improve assessment of cumulative nature-related risks, support credible investment decisions, and enhance comparability beyond carbon-focused metrics.
The 13th national risk assessment: Climate, The 6th “C” of Credit
The report analyses US climate-driven mortgage risk, showing floods as the dominant driver of post-disaster foreclosures. Rising insurance costs, coverage gaps and falling property values create hidden credit losses. It argues climate risk should be treated as a sixth core credit assessment factor.
IQAir
IQAir is a commercial air quality technology company providing real-time air pollution data, analytics and monitoring solutions. It operates a global air quality platform, publishes World Air Quality Reports, and supplies air monitoring hardware. IQAir data supports public health, environmental research, urban planning and policy decision-making worldwide across multiple regions.
Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS)
Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) is a European research infrastructure providing long-term, high-precision observations of greenhouse gases. ICOS delivers open, standardised climate and carbon cycle data through its Carbon Portal, supporting climate science, modelling, and evidence-based policy across Europe and neighbouring regions.