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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the years, many social sector leaders have written about the difficulties of measuring social impact. Over the past few decades, they’ve called for more skilled analysts, the embedding of impact ...

Across the world many Governments invest significant amounts on public money into research (OECD, 2015). At least part of the justification for these investments is related to the diverse array of ...

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 ...

Too often, environmental impact studies in Croatia are treated as merely a ‘pro forma’ exercise in order to obtain the construction permit. In 2010, the inauguration of the first hydroelectric power ...

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 ...