ESG Research and Resource Center

Offering insight into how investors can leverage sovereign GSSS+ bonds to assess countries’ climate commitments and help inform their capital allocation decisions.

This report offers institutional investors strategies to finance decarbonization activities in emerging markets, which are expected to be the largest source of future emissions growth.

A look at the regulatory outlook for sustainable investing and the latest data for fund flows.

The enhanced assessment framework is designed to help you navigate the complexities of sustainable finance market by providing a rigorous, science - based approach that ensures your sustainability framework stands out in a crowded market. Our enhanced approach goes beyond labels to deliver clear, measurable insights into the real-world impact of your investments, enabling you to mitigate the risks of greenwashing, meet evolving transparency demands, and confidently demonstrate long-term progress.

Download a sample report to discover how our UoP assessment enhances transparency and provides clear, measurable insights into the real-world impact of your bond or loan.

Experts share their predictions of what will be top of mind for investors and issuers in the areas of ESG risk, regulations, climate transition and sustainable finance for the year to come.

This report covers six themes that will be top of mind for sustainability-aware investors for 2025, identifying touchpoints that investors will need to learn to navigate in the new year.

Learn how to go beyond simply asking whether an investment has impact to quantifying the impact to support positive real-world outcomes.

This corporate guide discusses the difficulties in measuring, reporting, and reducing GHG emissions in hard-to-abate sectors and provides key takeaways so that companies can take advantage of the opportunities sustainable finance offers.

This article outlines how biodiversity loss poses material risks to business and how it connects to many other issues that companies can’t ignore. In addition, it covers how biodiversity conservation presents substantial economic opportunities, and how businesses can address and access these opportunities by issuing linked instruments that integrate biodiversity considerations.

We invite corporate social responsibility and sustainability professionals around the world to participate in the second edition of the Morningstar Sustainalytics Corporate ESG Survey.

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

In this blog we provide insights into the best practices for developing a successful ESG program by highlighting two important habits of high-performing companies in Sustainalytics’ universe.

Have questions about responsible investing, sustainable finance, and ESG? Hear from our experts in our Quick Take video series.

Have questions about responsible investing, sustainable finance, and ESG? Hear from our experts in our Quick Take video series.

Have questions about responsible investing, sustainable finance, and ESG? Hear from our experts in our Quick Take video series.

In this blog, we provide insights into the best practices for strategic ESG communications with five lessons from three top performing companies in Sustainalytics’ universe.

In this blog members of our Corporate Solutions teams share their insights on the uptake of ESG and impact considerations among companies and investors in Latin America.

Discover what CSR and sustainability professionals say are the top motivations and influences driving their firms’ corporate ESG programs in our infographic, featuring data from the Morningstar Sustainalytics Corporate ESG Survey Report 2022: CSR and Sustainability in Transition.

In this blog we share 5 takeaways from our recent webinar on the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, what it means for companies, issuers and investors, and how it can support their decarbonization goals.