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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 presents the findings of the global stock take of the tools and techniques that financial institutions are developing to analyze environmental risks.

This report aims to help the investment industry empower savers to understand the impact of their investments on the critical challenges of our generation and to invest in line with their world views.

This paper considers how new tools, which are further described within the paper, can help businesses analyze how their operations will be affected by the multitude of climate-related risks.

This Standard is part of the set of GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards (GRI Standards). Standard 102 includes information about governance processes and responsibilities.

GFW Climate is the latest GFW application, joining a host of interactive online forest monitoring tools designed to empower people everywhere with the information they need to better manage and conserve forest landscapes. GFW Climate strives to deliver timely and accurate data on forest carbon in a way that unlocks insights for government, REDD+ donors, the private sector, NGOs, journalists, universities and the general public.

Global Forest Watch Water (GFW Water) joins the Global Forest Watch suite of interactive online forest monitoring tools designed to empower people everywhere with the information they need to better manage and conserve forest landscapes. GFW Water provides powerful information to help catalyze a global movement to enhance water security and bolster economic development through natural infrastructure.

The Partnership for Resilience and Preparedness (PREP) was formed in 2016 around a simple principle - that climate and socioeconomic data should be accessible and usable for everyone. PREP is a partnership of leading research institutions, government agencies, adaptation practitioners, and technology companies, working to empower communities and businesses around the world to build resilience to climate change by improving access to data, creating best-in-class tools, and helping people navigate the complicated resilience planning landscape.

This working paper outlines a recommended methodology for estimating and reporting the potential emissions from fossil fuel reserves held by coal, oil, and gas companies. The overall goal is the availability of transparent, credible, and consistent data on potential emissions that help illuminate companies’ effects on the carbon budget and inform investment strategies and decisions to use reserves.

This instrument requires companies to complete the Form 58-101F1 detailing the company's corporate governance policies and practices on an annual basis. National Instrument 58-201 provides the related guidelines.

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.