ESG Research and Resource Center

A Q&A with Sustainalytics' Chief Product Officer.

This report evaluates global systemically important banks' preparedness for managing climate transition risks in alignment with evolving standards and regulations.

This report examines utility companies' capacity to manage risks amid the recent trend of environmental deregulation across regions.

In this episode we sat down with the ESG Proxy Voting Overlay team to discuss their insights from the most recent proxy season.

This report examines the links between climate change and human rights in the cocoa industry, using Morningstar Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Ratings data to assess how major producers are managing risks.

Following the European Commission’s release of plans to overhaul the SFDR, we examine what the new landscape of EU sustainability-related funds (Article 7, 8, and 9) could look like under the new rules.

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

As a signatory to the Net Zero Financial Service Provider Alliance, we recognize that our products and services can shape the sustainability of markets, investment and the world. Learn more about our climate and net zero aligned solutions.

Demonstrating how investors can leverage climate transition risk and management data to serve different use cases and support proprietary tools that are aligned with existing climate frameworks.

The second article in our series examines other metrics that can be used to assess whether companies are aligned to a decarbonization pathway and how companies compare across regions.

This report analyzes financial institutions’ compliance with EU taxonomy reporting requirements.

Learn about the evolution in sustainable fixed income investing, our enhanced SPO assessment framework, and the importance of bringing the investor voice to the conversation about funding a sustainable future.

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

Tune in to hear experts share their perspectives on sustainable investing trends and the changing regulatory landscape, as well as changes in proxy voting activities, the influence of dual class share structures and their impact on say on pay votes.

In this article, we evaluate European issuers’ preparedness to manage the shift toward a low-carbon economy using data from Morningstar Sustainalytics’ Low Carbon Transition Rating.

Discover the approaches investors can take to protect assets and capitalize on opportunities in the face of increasing risks from extreme snowfall events.

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.

The perils and promise of impact reporting, from a panel of Morningstar experts.

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.