Supplier ESG assessment: a practical guide to evaluating suppliers
How to run a supplier ESG assessment: consistent criteria, source-linked evidence, risk-based segmentation, and questionnaires sized to the real gap.
ESG in manager selection: how asset owners choose and monitor external managers
For most asset owners, sustainability commitments are executed by someone else. The pension fund sets the climate policy, but external managers pick the stocks, cast…
Global State of Investor Climate Action: what 220 investors’ disclosures reveal
Ask an institutional investor whether climate matters to their portfolio and nearly all of them will say yes. Ask their disclosures, and the answer gets…
ESG benchmarking for nonprofits: turning corporate disclosure into accountability
Nothing moves a company quite like seeing its name below a competitor’s on a published list. The World Benchmarking Alliance built its entire theory of…
ESG scoring: how to build a defensible methodology (and apply it at scale)
Every serious sustainability decision eventually becomes a scoring problem. Whether you are comparing portfolio companies, screening a target, or assessing members of a coalition, at…
AI ESG due diligence: how investment teams screen deals without slowing them down
ESG due diligence has a timing problem. Deal windows are measured in weeks, but a proper review of a target’s sustainability disclosures (reports, policies, ratings,…