Resource Database

This report evaluates and benchmarks the quality and comprehensiveness of climate risk disclosures by insurance companies in response to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Climate Risk Disclosure Survey.

This report recommends that existing asset-level information be brought together in ways that can complement existing voluntary disclosure pathways.

This report outlines the global ecosystem of initiatives focused on overcoming obstacles to investment in sustainable infrastructure, and how to use them to address the sustainable investment funding gap.

This paper focuses on the imperative for sustainable infrastructure (SI) in Latin America and the Caribbean and around the world. The paper includes three calls to action: convene the conveners, internal alignment for success, and external collaboration for success.

This report explores what impedes corporate efforts and identifies how companies can blend creativity and pragmatism to look beyond predictable and controllable risks to complex uncertainties that have the potential to generate more than mere volatility in corporate earnings.

This paper is a collaborative initiative by Mercer and the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) which seeks to educate pension fund fiduciaries on the financial and legal challenges climate change presents, and equip them with the information and tools to respond.

This report explores how companies are incorporating sustainability assessments into their financial modeling and enterprise risk management strategies and processes.

This report offers 15 key actions for international development partners, governments and private sector actors to support adaptation mainstreaming.

This paper discusses the impact of internalizing environmental costs onto a firm’s balance sheet and the consequent risks this creates for commercial banks. Two industries, namely thermal power and cement production, are selected for stress testing against a range of high, medium and low stress scenarios and the impact on their financial performance and credit ratings is assessed as a result.

This paper reviews the value and limits of energy scenarios and, in particular, to assess how the new low-carbon goals are reflected in the latest projections. This relatively new dimension of the scenarios means that in addition to the traditional factors like technology development, demographic, economic, political and institutional considerations, there is another aspect of the modern energy forecasts related to the coverage, timing, and stringency of policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants.

IRENA’s REmap programme determines the potential for countries, regions and the world to scale up renewables. The roadmap focuses not just on renewable power technologies, but also technology options in heating, cooling and transport. Based on these country driven results, REmap provides insights to policy and decision makers for areas in which action is needed.

The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) is a global collaboration of energy research teams charting practical pathways to deeply reducing greenhouse gas emissions in their own countries. The initial results of this collaboration are reflected in reports on deep decarbonization pathways for Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, United Kingdom and United States.