Research & Reports

This follow-up paper to “The Why, What, and How of Corporate Biodiversity Action” dives into what concrete biodiversity action can look like when it is bolstered by the clear business trend of technological disruption.

The following explores two future perspectives for the decarbonization of the Middle East by 2060, scientifically accounting for multiple uncertain variables which directly alter the region’s future energy demand.

Michele Cecchini is responsible for the OECD work on Public Health. He drives the work on promoting better public health policies for better lives, which includes identifying best practices across countries and making the economic case for scaling up prevention policies.

Bacardi Limited, the world’s largest privately held international spirits company, releases its fifth annual Bacardi Cocktail Trends Report, anticipating the key trends that will redefine cocktail culture and the spirits business in 2024.

To help companies make sense of the progress and avoid confusion, the Nasdaq IR Intelligence team recently leveraged our own, newly-launched Nasdaq Sustainable Lens™ to review, analyze, and summarize sustainability and ESG reports, financial filings, and other ESG documents.

ESG Talk hosts Mandi McReynolds, Steve Soter, Andie Wood, and Ernest Anunciacion come together for the first time in this special season finale. The group discusses key moments that shaped sustainability in 2023 and their predictions for 2024.

Socially responsible spending is experiencing massive growth, according to 11th annual Conscious Consumer Spending Index. Earth friendly practices and charitable contributions are also rebounding.

The Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index measures sustainability competitiveness since 2012. Except for Japan on 12, the top 20 spots are taken by European Nations; the US is ranked 32, for the first time overtaken by China on rank 30.

With escalating risks from the world’s climate and nature crises and enhanced European regulatory risks, Ceres released a new scorecard today that reveals few of the largest global companies are taking ambitious action to tackle commodity-driven deforestation.

Developed in partnership with the Global Fashion Agenda, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition has developed a Higg Index Tools Analysis and Compliance Initiatives Summary Report, which is now available to the public.