Focused acceleration: A strategic approach to climate action in cities to 2030

C40 | McKinsey

Book / Report | Free | Nov 01, 2017

This report identifies 12 opportunities that have the greatest potential in most global cities to curb emissions and put cities on a 1.5°C pathway through 2030.

Social innovation: what it is, why it matters & how it can be accelerated

Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Book / Report | Free

This report is about how we can improve societies' capacities to solve their problems. It is about old and new methods for mobilizing the ubiquitous intelligence that... Read More

Unlocking Capital for Sustainability-Oriented Ventures: 7 Key Lessons for Entrepreneurs

Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan

Template / Workbook / Spreadsheet | Free | Nov 05, 2016

Entrepreneurship is challenging in all cases, and raising capital can be especially difficult. For sustainability-oriented entrepreneurs who aspire to realize a positive... Read More

Sinzer - Software & consulting for impact management

Sinzer

Suite of Tools | Paid

An software and consulting organization that helps implementing the social return on investment (SROI) for NGO and for profit projects and organizations. Social Impact... Read More

Business Case Examples: Environmental Issues

Solution Matrix LLC

Article | Free

Case studies of environmental business cases.

ELD Initiative: Practitioner's Guide: Principles of economic valuation for sustainable land management based on the Massive Open Online Course "The Economics of Land Degradation"

The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD)

Framework / Guidelines | Free | Jan 01, 2014

This Practitioner’s Guide reaches out to provide practitioners and decision-makers with the skills necessary to make an economic case for preventing or reversing land... Read More

Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas

World Resources Institute (WRI)

App | Free

Aqueduct's global water risk mapping tool helps companies, investors, governments, and other users understand where and how water risks and opportunities are emerging... Read More

Business Guide to Water Valuation

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Framework / Guidelines | Free | Aug 30, 2015

This Business Guide to Water Valuation provides business-specific guidance on the main concepts and techniques associated with water valuation. The intention is to arm... Read More

Natural Capital Assessments at the National and Sub-national Level

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) | World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)

Framework / Guidelines | Free | Mar 01, 2016

Natural Capital Assessments at the National and Sub-national Level presents a stepwise guidance document to conducting a natural capital assessment. The steps presented in... Read More

Corporate Natural Capital Accounts

Natural Capital Committee | PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) | Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)

Framework / Guidelines | Free | Jan 01, 2015

This study develops a methodology for corporate natural capital accounting. The study is structured around three main phases of work: Constructing a methodological... Read More

The Business Case for Sustainability

BrightWorks

Article | Free

Sustainability _ as a conceptual framework for the organization of priorities and allocation of resources _ provides a unique platform for reducing costs, identifying and... Read More

The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review (HBR)

Article | Free | Oct 21, 2016

This article provides a sustainability business case for the 21st century corporate executive and includes examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line.

Some principles for Science-Based Target setting

Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan

Other | Free

A short document with five inspiring and very clear thoughts about how to set (emissions) targets (and how not to set them).