Canbury

NGO

Canbury provides specialised expertise and tools to enable NGOs to deliver their sustainability strategies and realise their goals. Our services include in-depth thematic research as well as policy and regulatory analysis.  By utilising Canbury’s services, NGOs can enhance their capacity to inform and guide their members or constituents on critical sustainability issues, shape effective sustainability policies and practices and advance the global sustainability agenda through impactful research and advocacy.

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Thematic research and analysis

We offer in-depth thematic research services, leveraging deep sustainability and policy expertise to deliver high-impact studies on a range of global topics. We have collaborated with organisations like the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, PRI, the Generation Foundation, and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative on projects focused on climate action, nature, social issues and impact investing.

Policy insights and tools

We provide insights and analysis of global sustainability regulation and sustainability-related real-economy policy. This service addresses the challenges posed by the rapid evolution and increasing complexity of worldwide sustainability policies. Our offering includes access to Canbury’s Policy Horizon Tool, a comprehensive and customisable online platform for global policy analysis in responsible investment. The tool covers over 2,000 policies across major global economies and features a user-friendly interface with custom indicator mapping and flexible output formats.

Thematic research and analysis

Canbury offers in-depth thematic research services, leveraging deep sustainability and policy expertise to deliver high-impact studies on a range of global topics. Canbury has collaborated with organisations like the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, PRI, the Generation Foundation, and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative on projects focused on climate action, nature, social issues and impact investing.

Policy Insights and Tools

Canbury provides insights and analysis of global ESG regulation and sustainability-related real-economy policy. This service addresses the challenges posed by the rapid evolution and increasing complexity of worldwide sustainability policies. Our offering includes access to Canbury’s Policy Horizon Tool, a comprehensive and customizable online platform for global policy analysis in responsible investment. The tool covers over 2,000 policies across major global economies and features a user-friendly interface with custom indicator mapping and flexible output formats

We provide our clients with a full service of sustainability support – from source data through to client reporting. We pride ourselves on offering bespoke and tailored advice to our clients. Here is a selection of insights that underpin our advice.

Transforming Global Finance for Climate Action

Despite global recognition of the climate crisis, rational investors continue to be incentivised to fund unsustainable activities.The Global Sustainable Investment Alliance’s report – prepared by Canbury – reveals a fundamental…

Investing for Sustainability Impact: A Practical Framework

The report “Investing for Sustainability Impact” makes the case for institutional investors to incorporate sustainability impact into investment strategies. This work by PRI, UNEP Finance Initiative and the Generation Foundation builds on their Legal Framework for Impact research.

Trip to the Boreal Forest

It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.” – Rachel Carson, Silent Spring.

AY Young

At Canbury, I typically work with asset managers, pension funds, companies and NGOs to help them meet their sustainability goals. However, I was pleased to get creative in pursuit of our mission of making sustainability meaningful – finding the intersection between sustainability and music!

nature policy

Following the King’s Speech last week, laying out Labour’s legislative priorities for its first few months in office, we take a look at the current and future picture for nature in the UK

Divulgaciones climáticas en LATAM

Los gobiernos latinoamericanos están mejorando las medidas de cambio climático, alineadas con los estándares internacionales de presentación de informes. Estos movimientos son impulsados por la región, que conoce el año más caluroso de su historia, marcado por sequías exacerbadas y condiciones climáticas extremas.

Carbon Offsets

Carbon offsets are a controversial part of decarbonising the economy. They have made headlines a number of times, most recently due to the Science Based Target Initiative’s (SBTi) Board of Trustee’s announcement that they intend to allow “Environmental Attribute Certificates” to be used in the attainment of companies’ Net Zero targets.

Water Sustainability in Industry

As pressures on water such as climate change, population growth, and industrialisation continue to grow and, consequently, so too water scarcity, understanding and mitigating water-related risks is becoming an evermore important component of investors’ sustainability objectives.

Responsible Investing in the Middle East

With COPs in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Dubai, and this year, Baku, attention to climate change is growing in the Middle East; quickly following, is attention to responsible investment. Here, we analyse the opportunities we see in the region.

Conflict

As a sustainability theme, conflict is not one that’s well-covered by investors. Our briefing explores the steps investors can take.

FCA’s SDRs

Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels.

The Inflation Reduction Act

Up to $1 trillion of public funding for clean energy and climate transition is made available by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 plus related packages (inc. The Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act (IIJA) and The CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS)).

corporate sustainability due diligence directive

CSDDD is a European Union directive that mandates companies to conduct and report on due diligence regarding human rights and environmental impacts within their operations and supply chains. 

European Sustainability Reporting Standards

Our short investor-focused briefing on the ESRS and CSRD.

Net Zero targets

Most investors have (or soon will) set a net zero target. Here we set out the characteristics of good-practice net zero target-setting.

Transition Plans

The UK government, in its commitment during COP26, established the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) “Disclosure Framework”

Scenarios

This briefing introduces some of the challenges associated with scenarios – and how we can help solve them.

Fiduciary Duties

Decisions made by fiduciaries cascade through the intermediation chain and in turn through the investment decision-making process.

Social issues

For a few reasons, investors tend to give social issues less attention than environmental issues. Here we set out how investors should address social issues.

Biodiversity and nature

This briefing introduces biodiversity, nature, natural ecosystems and natural capital.
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