ESG Research and Resource Center

Understanding recent developments involving countries and companies linked to prohibited and controversial weapons.

Assessing climate transition plans and understanding changes and approaches to the French Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) label.

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

Examining the opportunity set within the Morningstar Sustainalytics coverage universe, focusing on companies involved in military contracting.

Discover the elements of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, and what they mean for the sustainable finance market.

This report examines and compares key elements of the VSME to the ESRS and evaluates the VSME’s suitability for investors' sustainability reporting needs.

Focusing on periods of economic shock, this report examines the link between US firms' ESG Risk Ratings and their financial performance.

This article looks at forced labor within the supply chain and the impact it might have on investors.

Proposing a holistic, decision-useful approach to company-level assessments of nature-related risks.

A Q&A about investor engagements, company commitments and climate data.

Insights on how regulatory shift in the US could impact how banks consider ESG within their business activities.

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 latest report in our “10 for” series draws on our latest research and highlights ten ESG themes that we think will affect corporate value chains in 2025.

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.

Accelerating biodiversity loss and deforestation in Brazil is a growing concern. Learn the key insight gathered from our recent investor engagement trip to the country.

This guide outlines the key elements of a credible climate transition plan and provides step-by-step guidance on how to assess and compare companies' transition readiness.

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.

Sustainalytics' Tom Eveson reflects on the outcome from COP29 and the opportunity for the financial sector to lead as architects for a sustainable future.

In this episode, we look back at some key insights from our guests during this past year - from ESG metrics, to climate, to regulatory issues.