This study compares ESG ratings with SDG scores across major providers. It finds little correlation. SDG scores align with investor exclusions and EU Taxonomy assessments, while ESG ratings largely measure financial risk exposure, not real-world environmental or social impacts.

RETScreen is a clean energy management software developed by Natural Resources Canada to assess renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. It supports feasibility analysis, financial evaluation, energy performance tracking and greenhouse gas emissions analysis using integrated global climate, cost and benchmark datasets.

Impact Pathfinder is an interactive evidence platform developed by CGAP that maps how financial inclusion interventions contribute to development outcomes. It synthesises global research to inform investors, funders and policymakers on effective pathways, contextual factors and evidence gaps.

Upright Platform offers impact-based ESG analytics that quantify companies’ positive and negative effects across environmental, social and economic dimensions. The S&P 500 ESG preset enables benchmarking of index constituents using monetised impact data to support portfolio analysis and comparability.

Upright Project is a Finland-based impact data company quantifying the net impact of businesses on society, environment, knowledge and health. It provides science-based ESG and impact analytics, company scores and datasets used by investors, financial institutions and corporates to inform sustainable investment and decision-making across global markets and portfolios worldwide.

The Impact Thinking Canva is a simple, printable framework to structure impact valuation projects, helping organisations define objectives, map impact pathways, identify key data needs and align stakeholders early in the process. It guides impact measurement and data collection at the start of an impact valuation exercise.

Restor is an open-access digital platform supporting ecosystem restoration and biodiversity monitoring worldwide. It integrates spatial data, science-based tools, and community networks to track restoration progress, assess ecological impact, and inform decision-making for practitioners, researchers, investors, and policymakers involved in nature and biodiversity outcomes across terrestrial and marine landscapes globally.

Valuing Impact is an impact measurement and valuation consultancy supporting businesses, investors and organisations to understand social and environmental outcomes. It develops practical impact valuation frameworks, tools and research to inform sustainability strategy, ESG decision-making, impact reporting and responsible investment practices across sectors.

The IRIS+ Benchmarks tool by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) enables users to compare impact performance across sectors, themes and regions using standardised IRIS+ metrics. It supports performance benchmarking through aggregated data visualisations rather than providing access to raw datasets.

Impaakt is a Swiss-based ESG and impact data platform that uses stakeholder-powered, collective intelligence to assess companies’ social and environmental impact. It offers sustainability reporting, impact data, and materiality assessments for investors and corporates to improve transparency and avoid greenwashing.

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.

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.

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.

Ecoinvent Association is a Swiss not-for-profit association providing one of the world’s most comprehensive Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases for environmental and sustainability assessments. Its transparent, high-quality environmental data supports life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon footprinting and supply chain impact analysis for researchers, companies and policymakers.

GreenDelta GmbH is an independent sustainability consulting, engineering and software development company specialising in life cycle assessment (LCA), sustainability data, research and tools. It develops internationally used sustainability software such as openLCA and delivers consulting, data services and project-based research to enterprises, institutes and policy clients.

Orbae is an open-data platform by AdAstra Sustainability that quantifies greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural land-use change. It provides high-resolution, spatially explicit data to assess land conversion impacts across crops, regions and supply chains, supporting climate risk analysis, reporting and sustainable finance decision-making.