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Raising the Bar: How CSRD Emissions Reporting Rules Will Reshape Packaged Food Companies

Exploring the impact of CSRD emissions reporting rules on packaged food companies.

Climate Pulse

Understanding Portfolio Alignment Approaches with NZIF 2.0

Examining NZIF 2.0 and understanding how it might impact investors.

Artificial Intelligence Versus Reality: The ESG Risks Behind the AI Boom

Exploring the environmental, social and governance risks associated with rising AI demands.

Climate Risk Management Among Major Global Banks: Readiness and Gaps

Looking at the climate risk management of global systemically important banks.

Oil and the ESG Questions Shaping Norway’s Arctic Future

Examining Norway's Arctic oil expansion through an ESG lens.

Regulation in Action

ESG Risks Amid Deregulation Uncertainties: The Case of US Utilities

Examining the potential challenges and risks environmental deregulation may pose to utilities companies.

Climate Transition Funds: Regional Trends, Flows, and Growth Drivers

Examining the trends, flows and growth drivers in Climate Transition funds for the first half of 2025.

Eyes on Asia: How the Region Is Advancing on Human Rights Due Diligence

Understanding the move towards human rights due diligence in Asia.

Sustainability in Practice

Can Big Tech Keep Its Climate Commitments as Data Centers Scale?

The 2025 proxy season saw big tech faced tough questions from shareholders about the credibility of meeting climate commitments while also expanding the adoption of energy-intensive AI.

Regulation in Action

SFDR 2.0 in Figures: Impact Analysis

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.

Integrating Nature into Finance: Key Challenges Facing the Financial Sector

Understanding the challenges facing financial institutions and considering the potential next steps investors can take to address nature-related risks and opportunities.

Sustainability in Practice

Controversial Weapons: Reassessing the Red Lines

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

The French SRI Label: A Practical Approach to Climate Transition Plan Assessments

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

Exploring Climate-Related Systemic Risks: Possible Ways Forward for Asset Owners

Exploring actions asset owners may take to address climate-related systemic risks.

Sustainability in Practice

Palm Oil in Focus: The EUDR and Corporate Efforts on Transparent Sourcing

Understanding the role that companies and the EUDR play in increasing supply chain traceability and eliminating deforestation from the sourcing of palm oil.

Sustainability in Practice

Defense: Assessing New Investment Opportunities Through an ESG Lens

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

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Assessing Climate Transition Plans: Leveraging Data to Serve Investors’ Strategies

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.

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Corporate Climate Transition Plans: Why EU Companies Are Leaders Among Global Peers

Using the Low Carbon Transition Ratings, this article analyzes companies against three relevant metrics for assessing a transition plan's credibility and finds that EU companies continue to outperform their peers.

Regulation in Action

Implications of CSRD: What the Final Standards Mean for Investors and Issuers

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

EU ESG Funds’ Exposure to Defense Continues to Increase

This article examines the evolution of Article 8 and 9 funds' exposure to the defense sector since 2022.