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Sustainable investment funds: Design, implementation, monitoring and communication of sustainability attributes

The British Standards Institution (BSI)
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.
Research
19 March 2025

Sustainability disclosure landscape report for risk management: Insights from climate-focused case studies

United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
This report reviews sustainability disclosure standards and regulatory uptake, focusing on climate-related risk management. Using case studies, it examines IFRS S1 and S2 implementation, materiality assessments and transition plans, highlighting disclosure gaps, data challenges and practical approaches to improve decision-useful climate risk reporting.
Research
20 August 2025

SASB Standards Navigator

Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
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.
Online tool/database

IFRS S1: General requirements for disclosure of sustainability-related financial information

IFRS Foundation
IFRS S1 sets general requirements for sustainability-related financial disclosures, requiring entities to report material sustainability risks and opportunities affecting cash flows, access to finance and cost of capital, using consistent governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics disclosures.
Research
11 December 2025

AASB S1: General requirements for disclosure of sustainability-related financial information

Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB)
AASB S1 is a voluntary Australian standard setting general requirements for sustainability-related financial disclosures. It outlines objectives, materiality, governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics to inform users about risks and opportunities affecting cash flows, access to finance, and cost of capital.
Research
30 September 2024

Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative (NZAM)

Finance Industry Groups
Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative (NZAM) is a global investor initiative supporting asset managers committed to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. NZAM provides guidance, accountability frameworks, and public target disclosures, helping align investment portfolios with climate goals and support the transition to a net zero economy across global financial markets.
Organisation
1 research item

Directors’ duties navigator: Climate risk and sustainability disclosures series

Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative
This is a series of legal and governance primers examining directors’ duties and corporate disclosure obligations in relation to climate and sustainability risks. It provides jurisdictional analysis and practical guidance to support board oversight, risk management and reporting as regulatory and market expectations evolve.
Benchmark/series
1 January 2026

International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)

Government Sponsored / Multilateral Organisations
International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) develops global sustainability disclosure standards for capital markets.Operating under IFRS Foundation, ISSB issues IFRS S1 and IFRS S2, supporting consistent, comparable ESG and climate reporting.Used by regulators, investors and companies to align sustainability information with financial reporting across jurisdictions worldwide and regulatory frameworks.
Organisation
3 research items

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Other Industry / Sector Specific Groups & Sponsored Organisations
Open Geospatial Consortium develops and promotes open standards for geospatial and location-based data. Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) supports interoperability across climate, environment, urban planning and risk analysis by enabling consistent sharing, integration and use of spatial data across public and private sectors worldwide.
Organisation
1 research item

Nature Enters the Boardroom: Why Directors Are Paying Attention

Drawing on Australia’s first national study of board-level engagement with nature, this article shows how directors are treating nature as a material governance and financial issue. It highlights how boards are extending climate governance systems to manage nature-related risks, adopt frameworks like TNFD, and build resilience and long-term value despite policy uncertainty.
Article
16 January 2026

TNFD: Nature Transition Plans

Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
The TNFD Nature Transition Plans tool provides guidance for integrating nature-related goals, actions, governance and disclosures into organisational transition planning. It supports alignment with the Global Biodiversity Framework and helps organisations assess, plan and communicate responses to nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities.
Online tool/database

Assessing the credibility of a company’s transition plan: framework and guidance

World Benchmarking Alliance
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.
Research
1 September 2024

IFRS Foundation

Finance / Corporate Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
IFRS Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that develops globally accepted accounting and sustainability disclosure standards.It oversees IFRS Accounting Standards and IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards, supporting transparency, comparability and trust in global capital markets for investors, companies and regulators worldwide.
Organisation
4 research items

Towards sustainability position on defence investments

Towards Sustainability Labelling Agency (CLA)
The report sets a pragmatic policy on defence investments for Towards Sustainability-labelled funds, permitting defensive, non-lethal and dual-use activities with strict ESG due diligence, while excluding weapons producers. It affirms defence funding as primarily a government responsibility.
Research
26 June 2025

ADS group: UK defence ESG charter

ADS Group
The UK Defence ESG Charter sets a voluntary, sector-wide framework for defence companies, covering climate transition, societal impact, and governance and ethics. It promotes decarbonisation, supply chain responsibility, skills development, ethical conduct, and collaboration, while allowing signatories to retain individual ESG strategies.
Research

Agreement on international responsible investment in the insurance sector: ESG investment framework for the theme: Controversial weapons and the trade in weapons with high risk countries

Social and Economic Council (SER)
The 2021 Agreement on International Humane Trapping Standards establishes technical requirements and testing procedures for restraining and killing traps used to capture specific wild mammal species. It aims to ensure humane trapping practices through standardised certification, testing methodologies, and threshold injury scores, whilst providing for periodic review and multilateral cooperation amongst signatory nations.
Research
15 January 2021
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