Toolkit of Useful Sources 50+ of the most useful and trusted sources.

Climate Change

• NASA (North American Space Agency)
• IPCC (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
• EEA (European Environmental Agency)
• IEA (International Energy Agency)
• Carbonbrief

Resource and Waste

• WRI (World Resource Institute): WRI's activities are focused on seven areas: food, forests, water, energy, cities, climate and ocean
• OECD - Waste
• EPA - Waste (US Environmental Protection Agency)
• World Bank - Waste

Plastic Pollution

• UN Environment - Beat Plastic Pollution: a very visual and fact-rich website to explain this systemic issue.
• Breakfreefromplastics: an organization actively bringing polluting companies accountable, with dozens of reports and infographics.

Water

• UN Water

Air Pollution

• Transport & Environment: a useful source for pollution metrics related to the transports industries (cars, planes, trains, etc.).
• OurWorldinData - Air Pollution: all key stats and figures on air pollution.

Health and Well-being

• WHO (World Health Organization): the go-to place for data about all health topics (e.g. mental disorders, infectious diseases, road accidents, etc.).
• World Bank - Good health and well-being: a section dedicated to SDG 3, with graphs and figures to master this topic.
• Our World in Data - Global Health: a robust and well-organized overview of health outcomes, with detailed sub-sections on all relevant topics.
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry: a federal public health agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services that focuses on minimizing human health risks associated with exposure to hazardous substances (contains data on toxic and hazardous substances e.g., heavy metals etc., their toxicological profiles, and their health impacts on human beings).

Food

• UN FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)

Workers Rights & Decent Work

• ILO (International Labor Organization): a trusted source of data if you focus on safety in the workplace, child labor, forced labor, green jobs or youth employment.
• Glassdoor
• Comparably

• Equileap: "The leading provider of gender equality data & insights", a must-check source for analyses on SDG 5.

• Catalyst: a global nonprofit leading research and concrete solutions to help "build workspaces that work for women".

Humans Rights

• Human Rights Watch: includes very detailed reports and investigations on human rights abuses across the world.
• Corporate Benchmark: one of the best benchmarks for companies’ status regarding human rights.
• Amnesty International: a global movement and a valuable source of reports about human rights and injustice worldwide.

Wildlife and Biodiversity

• WWF (World Wildlife): "the leading organization in wildlife conservation and endangered species", which offers various reports and insights on Climate Change, Life on Land and Life below Water.
• National Geographic: "world leader in geographic, cartography and exploration". Features many short and in-depth articles about environmental and climate issues.
• Nature Conservancy: a "global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive" which offers great insights on biodiversity efforts.
• ClientEarth: an environmental organisation focused on "bringing about systemic change that protects the earth for – and with – its inhabitants".
• RAN (Rainforest Action Network): a global nonprofit focused on preserving forests, which involves producing insightful reports on climate change and human rights.
  
• Greenpeace: environmental NGO which gives access to various reports on climate change, environmental protection, both in terms of issues and solutions.
• Chain Reaction Research: a think tank that conducts sustainability risk analysis on the topics of deforestation and commodities.
• Urgewald: a non-profit environmental and human rights NGO fighting against environmental destruction and for the rights of people harmed by corporate profit interests.
  

Inequality and Social Justice

• Amnesty International: a global movement fighting inequality and poverty. Its website contains a lot of key reports and short pieces on these issues.
• OECD - Inequality: charts and tables focused on different dimensions of inequality (income, gender, housing, etc.)
  

Finance

• BankTrack: an international organisation focused on tracking banks and their investments.
• Facing Finance: a small NGO producing quality reports on financial institutions that profit from human rights and environmental violations, controversial weapons financing and corruption.
• Reclaim Finance: an organisation that researches and exposes financial institutions that support the fossil fuel industry.
• Coalexit.org
• Forests&Finance: a platform that "assesses the finance received by over 300 companies directly involved in the beef, soy, palm oil, pulp and paper, rubber and timber supply chains, whose operations may impact natural tropical forests and the communities that rely on them in Southeast Asia, Central and West Africa, and parts of South America."

Governance

• GoodJobsFirst: Violation Tracker is the first wide-ranging database on corporate misconduct. It covers banking, consumer protection, false claims, environmental, wage & hour, safety, discrimination, price-fixing, and other cases resolved by federal regulatory agencies.