Our Projects
We partner with companies, investors and NGOs to bring order to the noise and turn sprawling datasets into sharp, defensible insights that can actually be used.
Whether it’s dashboards, interactive maps or formal reports, our projects make systemic climate risk visible, accessible and easier to act on.
Stewardship Accountability Index
A public evidence base for pension fund climate accountability
Pension funds control more than USD 50 trillion in assets and are central to the climate-risk problem in finance. Yet, there is still no simple, consistent way to assess and compare how exposed these funds are to climate risk, the quality of their stewardship, how credible their stated climate policies are, or whether their decisions align with their fiduciary duties to beneficiaries.
We are building the Stewardship Accountability Index: a public, searchable, evidence-based ledger focused on pension funds. It uses the latest advances in data science and AI to scale analysis of climate stewardship and map delegation chains (who manages what, through which pooled vehicles).
The Index is designed to make challenging trustees both more efficient and more effective by making oversight visible and contestable. It will raise the cost of trustee inaction and make corrective action easier within pension funds’ established processes, including asset manager escalation and replacement when delivery falls short.
Lobbying Governance Index
We built the Lobbying Governance Index: a public, searchable, evidence-linked ledger that scored 8,500 listed companies on climate-lobbying transparency and the governance practices used to oversee advocacy.
Using AI-enabled research and structured verification, the Index is designed to make stewardship and accountability work faster and more effective by making lobbying oversight visible and contestable. It helps investors, NGOs, and companies identify misalignment, prioritise engagement, and strengthen governance - so climate commitments carry more weight.
A database on climate lobbying transparency and governance
Trade Association Network
Mapping the relationships between companies and trade associations
Recognising that a substantial portion of global climate lobbying is conducted through trade associations, we used AI to systematically map trade association lobbying activities and assess their alignment with net-zero objectives. Creating the Trade Association Network prototype, we connected the memberships of approximately 8,500 companies across 200 trade associations, thereby bringing visibility to these typically opaque relationships.
This mapping allows investors and companies to identify lobbying activities that conflict with net-zero goals and to reveal inconsistencies between corporate climate commitments and the positions promoted by trade associations on their behalf. Our map illustrates how AI-enabled analysis can support alignment between trade association advocacy and net-zero policies, or at minimum, ensure consistency with the stated climate positions of corporate members.
Reports
Silent Influence
Are companies failing to govern their climate lobbying?
Corporate lobbying is a hidden force that shapes and regularly undermines climate policy. Despite mounting investor and public concern about climate change, there is a significant information data gap concerning which companies openly disclose their climate lobbying activities and whether they have effective internal governance structures in place to manage this issue. Danu Insight examined the public disclosures of over 8,500 listed companies globally to assess the quality of company disclosures of direct and indirect lobbying.
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