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Human rights assessment of the AI data supply chain
This BSR report assesses human rights impacts in the AI data supply chain. It identifies structural risks like buyer concentration and precarious platform models. Key findings highlight inadequate wages and psychological harm, offering strategic recommendations for companies to improve visibility and governance across their global sourcing practices.
Systems Change Learning Handbook
The Systems Change Learning Handbook is a digital resource by the School of System Change. it offers frameworks, tools, and methodologies to help professionals understand and navigate complex systemic challenges, including environmental and economic transitions.
Supervisory Toolkit for AI Use in Capital Markets
A practical framework from IOSCO designed to help financial regulators and firms manage the risks associated with AI in capital markets, focusing on governance, trading, and transparency.
Sound practices for responsible adoption of artificial intelligence (AI): Final report
This report by the Financial Stability Board identifies 12 sound practices for the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence in financial institutions. It details organisation-wide governance and lifecycle management, highlighting benefits like enhanced efficiency alongside risks such as third-party dependencies, cyber threats, and explainability challenges in complex systems.
2026 global analysis of planned data centres for physical climate risk and resilience
This report analyses physical climate risk for 2,595 planned data centres globally. It identifies South East Asia and France as major hotspots and highlights that indirect infrastructure dependencies increase operational disruption risk ten-fold. It advocates for integrating climate resilience into early site selection and engineering standards.
Addressing insurability: A playbook for investing in place-based resilience
The global insurance landscape faces a risk management crisis, with natural catastrophe losses exceeding $100 billion annually. This report outlines four interventions to improve place-based resilience: improving risk-decision data, creating innovative financing structures, establishing trusted metrics, and realising co-benefits through multi-stakeholder coalitions to enhance insurability.
Energy system digitalization report
This report examines the global transition towards digitalised energy systems, noting a $2.3 trillion investment in 2023. It explores how smart grids, digital twins, and the Common Information Model (CIM) enhance efficiency and integrate renewables, while outlining the standards and challenges essential for modernising energy infrastructure.
Adaptation & resilience impact: A measurement framework for investors
This report provides a practical framework for investors to assess the positive impact of climate adaptation and resilience investments. It applies the 'Five Dimensions of Impact' to private finance, categorising outcomes across people, planet, and economy. The guidance offers clear metrics to help scale and manage adaptation portfolios.
Adaptation planning for business: Navigating uncertainty to build long-term resilience
This report provides a framework for businesses to build climate resilience through strategic adaptation planning. It details a four-step process—scoping, designing, implementing, and monitoring—to manage physical risks and unlock opportunities. Integrating these efforts into core operations is essential for protecting long-term value and competitive advantage.
Climate City Contract 2030 climate neutrality investment plan: Guidance and explanations
This guidance document assists Mission Cities in developing a 2030 Climate Neutrality Investment Plan. It provides a systematic framework to quantify capital requirements, identify funding sources, and establish enabling policies. The plan integrates with the Climate City Contract to mobilise investment for city-wide decarbonisation efforts.
Circular solutions to achieve nature targets: circular economy as an enabler for Responsible Banking
This guidance details how circular economy strategies help banks achieve nature-related targets under the Principles for Responsible Banking. It identifies specific circular interventions across marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems, highlighting the business case for financing transitions that reduce resource dependency and manage nature-related physical and transition risks.
Conceptual framework for sustainability risk integration
This report presents a jurisdiction-neutral framework for integrating sustainability risks into bank management. Treating sustainability as a transversal risk driver, it outlines seven core elements including risk strategy, governance, and appetite. Data shows 90 per cent of surveyed banks seek such a structured approach to bridge implementation gaps.
Understanding I-PEPs: a framework for steering portfolio decarbonisation and supporting real-economy transition
This policy note introduces Indicators for Portfolio-related Emission Performance (I-PEPs). Developed for the Green Finance Alliance, these performance-based metrics enable financial institutions to steer portfolio decarbonisation. The framework focuses on year-on-year emission changes, providing a resource-efficient alternative to traditional accounting-based financed emissions for real-economy transition.
A World Bank Group strategy for engaging in fragility, conflict and violence affected settings (2026-2030)
This report outlines the World Bank Group 2026-2030 strategy for fragility, conflict, and violence-affected settings. It introduces four strategic shifts: anticipating risks, adopting differentiated approaches, unifying the jobs agenda, and enhancing operational toolkits. The strategy aims to scale impact through flagship initiatives and improved human resource practices.
Code of practice on transparency of AI-generated content
The European Union's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content provides guidance on meeting AI Act transparency obligations. It addresses machine-readable marking, detection, labelling of deepfakes and AI-generated text, technical reliability, compliance processes and disclosure requirements for providers and deployers of artificial intelligence systems.
How exchanges can integrate nature into markets: An action plan
This report provides an action plan for stock exchanges to integrate nature-related considerations into capital markets. It outlines a framework—establish, activate, enable, and educate—to help market participants manage dependencies and risks while mobilising capital for nature-positive outcomes and resilient economies.