ESG Research and Resource Center

Climate Transition Leaders 2025 highlights 21 companies that are front runners in their sectors with respect to preparing for the climate transition and effectively mitigating their climate impact.

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

The second part of this report delves into the key qualitative and quantitative factors used to measure impact and risk in the Controversy Rating.

This report highlights how distinct risk and impact signals, now available in our Controversies Research, can support investors’ evaluation of company incidents.

This year's survey of over 500 asset owners globally reveals a community deeply committed to its fiduciary responsibilities, while navigating increasingly significant disruption and uncertainty in capital markets and a complex regulatory landscape.

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.

Now in its fourth year, the report features responses from 25 asset owners who were interviewed about the challenges they are facing and how they are working through them.

This report examines 15 recent shareholder resolutions at US companies that address oversight and transparency in the use of AI.

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

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.

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.

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.

This stewardship research report analyzes data from the 2024 proxy voting seasons and compares it with previous years. It shows that asset managers’ backing for E&S proposals hit a five-year low in 2024.

This report examines the dynamic between dual class shares and the idea of shareholder democracy, using data from the 2024 proxy season.

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.

This research report helps climate-focused investors navigate the expanding array of strategies available to them and it provides an update on the rapidly evolving global landscape of climate funds.

This report explores the climate transition readiness and climate action profile of about 10,000 companies and more than 60,000 mutual funds and ETFs using metrics from Sustainalytics’ Low Carbon Transition Rating (LCTR).

This report examines the global landscape of open-ended funds and ETFs focused on biodiversity. It examines the range of options on offer based on three categories: risk-oriented, mixed, and solutions-focused.

In our first EU Taxonomy Reporting Review, Morningstar Sustainalytics examined taxonomy alignment on KPIs for more than 1,300 non-financial companies to assess the progress companies are making in reporting their taxonomy alignment.