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The green bond market is a portion of the larger debt market that enables and mobilizes funding for projects that contribute to environmental sustainability. Green bonds facilitate capital raising and investments for new and existing projects which have environmental benefits and can mitigate risks associated with climate change.

To help investors understand supply chain controversies, this report explores how supply chain incidents are distributed over time and across industries, markets and event categories. Our analysis aims to enable investors to identify potential areas of portfolio exposure as well as topics for corporate stewardship activities.

Gain a better understanding of physical and transition climate risks and their potential impacts to effectively respond to climate risks in investment portfolios and comply with the growing list of climate-focused reporting frameworks and regulations.

In this webinar, we will take a look at the evolution of sustainable funds in the first quarter of 2023, and review fund flows into Article 8 & 9 funds. We will then explore the latest regulatory updates around the EU Action Plan and the discussions around ESG labelling. Our speakers will discuss the different approaches of disclosures versus labelling and the benefits and shortcomings of each for combatting greenwashing.

Investors are increasingly influenced by ESG ratings and companies’ approaches to managing ESG risk. While an annual general meeting (AGM) is an ideal opportunity to communicate company plans around managing these risks, ESG reporting goes beyond an AGM or proxy season. Investors want investing to align with values, but are also looking at risk exposure and management.

In this episode of ESG in Conversation, we’re exploring the question: how can investors address biodiversity loss? Learn about the urgency of addressing biodiversity loss and the role of good stewardship in effecting positive change.

In this blog we take a closer look at trends in data availability and reporting across mandatory and voluntary PAIs, and how investors can address their data gaps.

This blog outlines how investors with access to screening options that follow the criteria of the OECD MNE Guidelines and the UNGPs can better assess investee companies’ risk of causing actual and potential adverse impacts. It shows what these research modules can look like and provides some examples outcomes on the effect of applying certain thresholds.

Morningstar Sustainalytics’ president on the gains and pains in the fight against climate change.

Investors face a unique set of challenges in assessing the physical climate risks affecting their portfolio companies. In this blog discover the direct and indirect physical climate risks impacting companies and their supply chains.

What is impact investing? What is impact-focused investing? In this blog post we unpack impact, how it relates to ESG, and why it’s important to investors.

This blog post examines the key anticipated requirements that should be considered once the European Green Bond Regulation is ratified.

Discussing the flurry of updates in sustainable finance regulation and guidance such as progress on the EU GBS; updates to the various sustainable loan principles; and the release of fourth and final beta version of the TFND framework.

Today’s investors are facing increased scrutiny from stakeholders for greenwashing risk. ESG-related disclosure regulations are quickly advancing and more customers are seeking impact-focused products. This market environment demands heightened transparency and credibility, and investors need to know how Impact can help them rise to these challenges and meet their diverse sustainability goals.

SVB's failure could create a domino effect in the IT and banking sectors, whereby the default of one company would trigger the default of another one across sectors, and so on. In this article, we explore that possibility for the cleantech sector.

Using ESG Risk Ratings data we assess companies' readiness to address their impacts on biodiversity loss across their operations.

Discover how leading companies are managing their low carbon transition risks. Using data from the Low Carbon Transition Ratings, we identify the industries with a large portion of the companies with strong management of transition issues and examine the factors contributing to their strong management scores.

This ebook covers how the sustainable bond market must strike a balance between increasing innovation and maintaining quality, integrity and credibility.

Watch our on-demand webinar recordings to learn more about enhancements to Physical Climate Risk Metrics.

This blog post examines the role, best practices and metrics for corporate governance with examples from three subindustries.