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Blueprint for intelligent economies: AI competitiveness through regional collaboration

Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler International (KPMG International)
The report outlines a framework for building intelligent economies through sustainable AI infrastructure, diverse datasets and ethical guardrails. It highlights collaboration across sectors and regions to support inclusive AI adoption, guide investment, strengthen governance and enable responsible technological development.
Research
7 January 2025

International round table: Financing climate action at city level

Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations
This report synthesises discussions from an international round table on financing city-level climate action, highlighting how local governments overcome fiscal constraints through tailored funding scales, partnerships, innovative revenue mechanisms, and long-term approaches to deliver major decarbonisation programmes across Europe and North America.
Research
10 October 2024

Competing in the age of disruption: A business briefing by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
The report argues that global industrial transition is inevitable and accelerating, creating material risks and opportunities. It urges businesses to pursue innovation, reshape market rules and influence policy to secure competitiveness, manage systemic threats and drive sustainable market transformation.
Research
19 May 2025

Creating value from big data in the investment management process: A workflow analysis

CFA Institute
The report analyses how investment professionals use AI and big data, noting moderate but rising adoption, multihoming across tools, and key challenges including skills gaps, data quality, and model opacity. It highlights organisational priorities such as upskilling and workflow automation to enhance efficiency and decision making.
Research
7 January 2025

AI governance behind the scenes: Emerging practices for AI impact assessments

Future of Privacy Forum (FPF)
The report outlines emerging organisational practices for AI impact assessments, highlighting common process steps, information gathering challenges, evolving risk-assessment methods, and difficulties evaluating mitigation effectiveness. It notes increasing cross-functional governance, reliance on third-party transparency, and the need for stronger metrics, education, and executive support.
Research
1 December 2024

AI in anti-financial crime: The state of adoption in 2025

Themis International Services
The report surveys senior leaders on AI adoption in anti-financial crime, finding limited current use but rapid expected uptake. It highlights technology shortcomings, emerging AI use-cases, leadership awareness, and barriers including cost, skills and regulatory uncertainty, outlining opportunities for more efficient, integrated and adaptive AFC capabilities.
Research
27 June 2025

Advancing women’s financial inclusion: Guidelines to adopt a gender perspective in financial institutions

Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP)
The report outlines guidelines for financial institutions to integrate gender perspectives across governance, management, staffing, communications, and product design. It promotes data-driven policies, bias reduction, inclusive culture, tailored financial solutions for women, and strategic partnerships to enhance women’s financial inclusion and strengthen institutional performance.
Research
25 May 2025

Planetary solvency – finding our balance with nature

Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA)
This report outlines how climate and nature risks threaten the Earth system that underpins economies and societies. It proposes a Planetary Solvency framework, using risk-led assessment principles to inform policymakers of escalating systemic risks, tipping points and mitigation needs, emphasising the urgency of realistic global risk management to avoid severe disruption.
Research
1 January 2025

Oxygen Consulting

Commercial Research Providers
Oxygen Consulting offers specialist sustainability consulting services across carbon, climate and nature, sustainability strategy and advisory, disclosure and reporting, audit and assurance, and capability development. Serving organisations in New Zealand across diverse sectors, it supports measurement, strategy formation and robust sustainability-governance frameworks to drive meaningful business impact.
Organisation
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Place-based impact investing: Emerging impact and insights

Impact Investing Institute
The report examines the expansion of place-based impact investing (PBII) in the UK since 2021. It outlines how institutional and local investors, supported by public–private partnerships, are aligning financial returns with social and environmental outcomes. The study highlights progress, barriers, and pathways to scaling PBII through collaboration and blended finance.
Research
20 May 2024

The business guide to advancing climate justice

B Lab
This 2024 guide, produced by Forum for the Future and B Lab, outlines how businesses can embed climate justice into strategy and operations. It defines principles for equitable community partnerships, offers practical frameworks across internal systems and supply chains, and emphasises trust-building, accountability, and regenerative, long-term collaboration.
Research
22 April 2024

Drivers of behavioral change and non change in transition times

International Panel on Behavior Change (IPBC)
The Drivers of Behavioural Change and Non-Change in Transition Times report, published by IpBc/GIECo in 2025, examines psychological, social, and organisational factors influencing why individuals and institutions act—or fail to act—on sustainability. Drawing on behavioural science, it identifies mindsets, emotions, implicit cognition, and systemic barriers as key determinants of ecological and climate-related behavioural shifts.
Research
7 July 2025

Groupement International pour l’Étude du Comportement / International Group for the Study of Behaviour (GIECo)

Finance / Corporate Focused NGOs & Think Tanks
Alliance pour le GIECO is a global non-profit network supporting the Groupe International d’Experts sur les Changements de Comportement (GIECO — International Panel on Behavior Change, IPBC). Through interdisciplinary behavioural-science research and public-policy briefs, it helps organisations understand human behaviour for transitions in climate, economy and society.
Organisation
1 research item

International Panel on Behavior Change (IPBC)

Scientific Bodies
International Panel on Behavior Change (IPBC) is an interdisciplinary scientific group that examines human behaviour in the context of climate, environmental, social and organisational transitions. IPBC produces state-of-the-art reports on behavioural change and non-change, offering evidence-based insights for organisations, policy-makers and civil society.
Organisation
1 research item

Committee diversity effect on corporate investment risk practices

MDPI
This study investigates how diversity within corporate committees influences investment risk practices among ASX 300 firms (2018–2020). Using a composite index of gender, independence, and non-executive representation, the authors find that greater committee diversity enhances long-term strategic investment decisions and efficiency, improving governance and financial performance.
Research
24 September 2025

Navigating diversity, equity and inclusion: An asset owner perspective

Pensions for Purpose
This report summarises how asset owners integrate diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) into organisational policies, investment management and stewardship. Drawing on interviews with 21 organisations, it highlights varying maturity levels, regulatory developments, data challenges and best practices shaping DE&I implementation across the pensions and investment industry.
Research
27 April 2024
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