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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,…
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….
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…
The false trade-off between competitiveness and sustainability
Framing the Omnibus I package as driving ‘competitiveness’ misses a key point about competitive advantage in the 21st century. By Laura Zizzo This article was…
How teams get value from Manifest Climate in the first 30 days
Introduction: Solving business problems When teams come to Manifest Climate, they’re looking to automate how they assess entities at scale, without the time investment that…
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…