Emerging and frontier markets have an urgent need for sustainable and impact investments to tackle economic, climate and societal challenges.
As investors and advisors in these markets, we have long relied on numerous on-ground resources as well as “other people’s data” relating to sustainability issues around the world. Below are a just a few of those resources with a plan to add to this list over time.
We would welcome your suggestions for other sources for research, tools and insights related to global sustainability by leaving a comment here or contacting us.
Sustainability Ratings, Scoring and Indices
- Sustainalytics
- Moody’s ESG Solutions
- MSCI ESG Ratings
- S&P Global – Sustainable1
- CSRHub
- Bloomberg ESG Data
- Fitch ESG Database
- Ethical Systems
- FTSE Russell Sustainability
- FTSE4GOOD
- Inrate
- ISS Corporate Ratings
- Refinitiv
- FactSet
- FactSet Insights
- Reprisk Solutions
- Just Capital
- B Lab / B Corporation
- Morningstar ESG
- Environmental Democracy Index
- World Energy Trilemma Index
- Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index
- Fragile States Index
- ILOSTAT Safety and Health at Work
Sustainability Reporting and Standards
- IFRS SASB Standards
- TCFD (Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure)
- PRI – Principles for Responsible Investing
- CDP (Climate Disclosure Project)
- GHG Protocol
- CDSB (Climate Disclosure Standards Board)
- United Nations SDG
- TNFD (Task Force for Natural-Related Financial Disclosures)
- The Climate Registry
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
- Carbon Tracker
- IHA Hydropower
- UN Global Compact
ESG and Impact Investing
- US SIF (Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment)
- Global Impact Investor Network (GIIN)
- CERES Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR)
- ESG Investor
- JP Morgan ESG
- NASDAQ ESG Tools
- Illuminem
- Barrons EM
- Blackrock EM
- Blackrock ESG Integration
- CFA Institute ESG Investing
- OECD ESG
- Rockefeller Philanthropy
- IFC Impact Investing
- World Resources Institute – Sustainable Investing
- Wharton ESG Initiative – Impact Lab
- Capital Group ESG Study
- SEAF
- FTSE Russell Sustainable Investment Data
- NYU ROSI Sustainability Database
- Impact Database EU
- UNEP Environmental Program
Macro and Economic Data
- Sovereign ESG Data Portal – World Bank
- Sustainable Finance ICE
- Asia Dev Blog
- CFR Global
- CIA Factbook
- Conference Board HuCap
- IZA Labor Econ
- IIE International Institutute of Education
- IMF Direct Blog
- UIS Statistics
- UNESCO Sustainable Development
- NBER
- OECD
- World Bank Education
- HCI
- Continuum Economics
- USD of Labor Blog
- IMF SDG