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General research and analysis that provides deep dives and insights into specific sustainability issues or industry sectors, addressing the current status, trends, risks, and opportunities for the issue but not specifically addressing a finance or business audience.
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Federal Institute of Hydrology (Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde)
Federal Institute of Hydrology (Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde) is Germany’s federal authority for hydrology and inland waterways. It provides scientific research, data, and expert advice on river basins, water quality, sediment, and climate impacts, supporting infrastructure planning, environmental protection, and evidence-based public policy and national water management decision-making across Germany.
Global Energy Monitor
Global Energy Monitor (GEM) is a non-profit research organisation that develops and publishes open-access data, interactive tools, and analysis on global energy infrastructure, including fossil fuels and renewable projects. GEM’s datasets and reports inform energy transition, climate policy and public understanding worldwide.
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
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.
WESR: Water
WESR – Water provides geospatial insights on water availability, stress, and related risks. It supports location-based assessment of water-related exposure, enabling finance professionals to integrate water risk considerations into investment analysis, risk management, and sustainability decision-making.
ADEME (French Agency for Ecological Transition)
ADEME (French Agency for Ecological Transition) is a French public agency supporting ecological and energy transition, climate action, renewable energy, circular economy, and sustainable development. It mobilises citizens, businesses and territories, funds research and innovation, and provides expertise, tools and guidance to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect natural resources.
GreenDelta
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.
WESR: Ocean
WESR: Ocean provides high-level insights into ocean-related environmental risks and pressures, including marine ecosystems, pollution and resource use. It supports risk identification and contextual analysis for financial decision-making linked to ocean health, coastal exposure and sustainability considerations.
Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung)
Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBR) is a German federal research institute providing evidence-based analysis on building, housing, urban development, and spatial planning. BBR produces research, data, and policy advice supporting sustainable cities, regional development, infrastructure planning, and informed public decision-making across national and international policy contexts and programmes.
University of Geneva
University of Geneva is a public research university based in Geneva, Switzerland. It delivers higher education and interdisciplinary research across science, climate, sustainability, human rights, health, and international relations, with strong links to global institutions and policy-relevant research outputs.
Deutsches Klimaportal
Deutsches Klimaportal’s Bauwesen section offers streamlined access to German climate services and data relevant to the built environment, drawn from national providers. It supports climate adaptation planning and decision-making for the construction sector with factual climate information and tools.
UN Biodiversity Lab
UN Biodiversity Lab’s Earth map is a free, online spatial data tool that lets users view and interact with over 400 global biodiversity, climate change and sustainable development map layers for analysis and planning. It supports visualising, downloading and combining datasets to inform conservation and policy decisions.
Regional Climate Atlas of Germany (Regionaler Klimaatlas Deutschland)
Regionaler Klimaatlas Deutschland is an interactive web tool presenting over 120 regional climate scenarios for Germany. It summarises research on future climate change, enabling users to view projected changes in climate elements such as temperature, precipitation and wind at national and regional levels.
German Climate Atlas (Deutscher Klimaatlas)
The Deutscher Klimaatlas by the German Weather Service (DWD) is an interactive online tool that presents maps and time-series of past, current and projected future climate data for Germany (1881–2100), showing spatial and temporal climate patterns and scenarios.
Drought Monitor Germany (Dürremonitor Deutschland)
The UFZ Drought Monitor provides daily, spatially resolved maps and downloadable data on soil moisture and drought conditions across Germany. It uses simulations from the mesoscale hydrological model (mHM) to indicate drought severity in topsoil and total soil profiles, supporting climate and water resource research.