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 more interesting. The Investor Agenda’s new report, the Global State of Investor Climate Action, benchmarks more than 220 institutional investors (101 asset owners and 120 asset managers) across seven regions, […]
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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 change on that fact, benchmarking 2,000 of the world’s most influential companies on the belief that ranking performance creates “accountability for those that fail to act.” For nonprofits, NGOs, and […]
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 some point the judgment has to compress into something comparable: a score. And that is where the trouble starts, because the third-party scores most teams inherit disagree with each other, […]
AI for nonprofits: how mission-driven teams scale sustainability assessment
Nonprofits have adopted AI faster than almost anyone expected: a Virtuous survey of 346 nonprofit organizations found that 92% now use AI in some capacity. The same survey found that only 7% report major improvements in their ability to achieve their mission. That gap says something important: most nonprofits are using AI to speed up […]
AI for asset managers: how investment teams turn ESG disclosure into decisions
Asset managers are drowning in sustainability data and starved of the time it takes to make sense of it. A single portfolio company can publish a 200-page sustainability report, a TCFD-aligned climate disclosure, a CDP response, and a stack of regulatory filings — and that is just one name among the hundreds a typical portfolio […]
12 best AI tools for sustainable investing in 2026
Sustainable investing has a workload problem that keeps growing faster than teams do. Nearly three quarters of asset owners now apply sustainability considerations, 85% are significantly concerned about climate risk, and the disclosures those convictions run on keep multiplying: sustainability reports, transition plans, voting records, controversy feeds, and regulatory filings across every holding. The Global […]
How ESG professionals should be using AI
In 2026, most knowledge workers are using AI in some capacity, but sustainability professionals were among some of the earliest adopters. With the sheer quantity of ESG data and the speed at which trends, expectations, and regulations change, it’s clear that trying to keep on top of everything manually simply won’t work. But the way […]
How is Manifest Climate different from ChatGPT?
We’re often asked what makes Manifest Climate better than other AI tools on the market, like ChatGPT, Claude, or Microsoft Copilot. Here’s our explanation. Firstly, what is Manifest Climate? Manifest Climate is an AI-based sustainability intelligence platform that helps financial institutions and consultants conduct rigorous ESG analyses at scale. Manifest Climate is an AI tool […]
The power of AI for ESG consulting: How to scale advisory work without adding headcount
ESG consulting is getting harder ESG advisory work now sits much closer to core business decisions than it did even a few years ago. Sustainability insights increasingly inform capital allocation, risk management decisions, and long-term business strategy. Clients are demanding far more from their ESG consultants (often on a smaller budget than before). At the […]
The difference between ChatGPT and specialist sustainability AI tools
By Ryan Meyers, Chief AI Officer at Manifest Climate Most ESG professionals, including ESG teams at financial institutions and ESG consultants, have discovered the potential of AI for their work. When we speak with ESG teams, many are actively using general-purpose tools like Claude and ChatGPT for everyday tasks and have found them genuinely helpful. […]