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Blog cover graphic: supplier ESG assessment, showing three suppliers with the same rating supported by an assured report, a certificate, and a short questionnaire

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: choosing, then checking. How asset owners choose external managers and track progress against the mandate.

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: 220+ investors benchmarked on targets, transition plans, and real-world action

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: corporate disclosure, real accountability

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: build a defensible methodology with your criteria and apply it at scale

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: deal-speed screening with defensible, source-linked evidence

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…

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…

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…