What sustainability topic do both investors and accountants get excited about? Impact assessment. Driven by thought leaders and a genuine need to finally measure the impact of corporate sustainability ...

This is the first of a multi-article series focused on privacy impact assessments. This first article provides an overview of privacy impact assessments, the existing and pending privacy laws which ...

One of data privacy’s greatest challenges is that it can all feel just so abstract. What does it really mean for an individual’s data to be at “risk”? What activities are riskier than others? Where is ...

To test the value of AI, we ran an experiment alongside our annual impact performance assessment run between May and June of this year. As part of this assessment, we use a rating scale (1-4, with ...

To meet the changing preferences of investors, firms must be able to tell a compelling ESG story and demonstrate the real-world outcomes of their funds and portfolios. Morningstar’s Guide to Impact ...

UNESCO and the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee have issued new guidance for assessing impacts from projects that could potentially affect the planet’s most precious heritage places.

Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol. 8 (2017), pp. 52-72 (21 pages) With the boom in mining in Fennoscandia, reconciliation of competing land use interests in governance procedures such as impact ...

The IAEA has launched an innovative, interactive e‑learning course on approaches and methods to help countries perform prospective radiological environmental impact assessment (REIA). Nuclear ...

We are familiar with the practice of conducting a systematic prior appraisal (which includes a cost-benefit analysis and assessment of environmental concerns) when implementing a new development ...