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Biodiversity is the foundation of resilient and sustainable economies.
Companies and investors are now facing increasingly urgent demand to innovate while reducing their footprints on nature.
GIST Impact measures nature-related impacts and dependencies in both monetary terms and using universally-accepted, science-backed metrics.
With over 16 years of expertise in biodiversity and in partnership with leading organisations, GIST Impact offers an unmatched solution for measuring nature-related risks and opportunities anywhere in the world.
As the operator of Canada’s largest stock exchange (TSX), TMX sought reliable and high-quality data for its ESG Data Hub – providing a wide range of sustainability datasets to support portfolio construction, enhanced investment strategies, and investment risk management processes.
GIST Impact provides market-leading biodiversity datasets as part of a wider impact data package, enabling TMX to differentiate its product offering and empowering investors to make well-rounded and informed investment decisions beyond financial factors.
Our Data Portal is a user-friendly gateway to our suite of climate, nature, social and other sustainability data – empowering rigorous analysis and intuitive workflows. Learn more here.
Our API toolkit allows you to integrate our impact intelligence flexibly into your existing systems, while providing it to your customers in a way that puts their needs first. Learn more here.
We offer access to our data directly and via our distribution partners – with files, formats and delivery mechanisms (e.g. SFTP, .csv, etc.) to suit any requirements. Contact us today to learn more.
We provide tailored support for complex projects and assessments, leveraging our 16+ years of leadership in impact intelligence. Contact us today to learn more.
The economy and society are inextricably linked.
More than ever, companies are under growing pressure from legislators and shareholders to demonstrate their impact on wider society.
GIST Impact quantifies social return on investment of environmental and social programmes in monetary terms – for a clear, comparable and actionable picture.
Leveraging 16 years of expertise in impact intelligence GIST Impact combines state-of-the-art software, powerful databases, and robust methodologies to offer a market-leading measurement of social value.
Microsoft wanted to understand the outcomes and impacts of their social programmes at a local level using a robust, institution-aligned methodology.
In collaboration with Microsoft, GIST Impact created an impact measurement platform that leverages our advanced impact methodology and datasets –providing a location-specific assessment of social value creation, quantified in monetary terms.
Power SROI is a dedicated and intuitive SaaS solution for analysing the social return of your environmental and social investments. Learn more here.
Our API toolkit allows you to integrate our impact intelligence flexibly into your existing systems, while providing it to your customers in a way that puts their needs first. Learn more here.
We offer access to our data directly and via our distribution partners – with files, formats and delivery mechanisms (e.g. SFTP, .csv, etc.) to suit any requirements. Contact us today to learn more.
We provide tailored support for complex projects and assessments, leveraging our 16+ years of leadership in impact intelligence. Contact us today to learn more.
From 2024, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) puts a substantial reporting burden on up to 50,000 companies operating in the European Union.
Companies must report their environmental and societal impacts, and conduct a rigorous assessment of Impacts, Risks, and Opportunities (IROs) across their operations.
GIST Impact offers a state-of-the-art, data-driven approach to conducting a quantitative double materiality assessment in line with the latest CSRD requirements and European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
With 1,102 datapoints for each company to consider each year, the GIST Impact Double Materiality Scores provide a significant advantage to those undertaking the CSRD reporting and analysis journey.
KPMG sought robust, easily-accessible, and science-backed CSRD data to enhance the efficiency of their project delivery teams in conducting double materiality assessments for a wide range of clients at scale.
GIST Impact provides access to its Double Materiality Assessment Tool alongside a range of advisory services. This enables a quantitative and transparent assessment of 14,500+ listed companies (including global benchmarking), and supports on-demand private asset and business unit analysis.
Our Data Portal is a user-friendly gateway to our suite of climate, nature, social and other sustainability data – empowering rigorous analysis and intuitive workflows. Learn more here.
Our API toolkit allows you to integrate our impact intelligence flexibly into your existing systems, while providing it to your customers in a way that puts their needs first. Learn more here.
The Data Book is a simple, yet powerful Excel workbook that enables our clients to submit asset-specific data and produce CSRD double materiality scores on the fly. Contact us today to learn more.
We provide tailored support for complex projects and assessments, leveraging our 16+ years of leadership in impact intelligence. Contact us today to learn more.
Impact the change in well-being across nature as well as society.
GIST Impact measures changes in well-being in monetary terms across four ‘Capitals’: Natural, Human, Social, and Produced.
Monetised impact valuation speaks the language of finance.
This leads to a standardised assessment of sustainability performance and hassle-free integration of sustainability into financial workflows.
UBS wanted to assess the impact of their lending book as well as investments that form a part of their balance sheet. This also included impact assessment of companies that were not in our standard universe.
GIST Impact provided comprehensive impact data, enabling the bank to assess the natural capital impact or externalities and human/produced capital value creation of their entire portfolio.
Our Data Portal is a user-friendly gateway to our suite of climate, nature, social and other sustainability data – empowering rigorous analysis and intuitive workflows. Learn more here.
SME360X is a streamlined impact measurement platform for SMEs. Learn more here.
Our API toolkit allows you to integrate our impact intelligence flexibly into your existing systems, while providing it to your customers in a way that puts their needs first. Learn more here.
We offer access to our data directly and via our distribution partners – with files, formats and delivery mechanisms (e.g. SFTP, .csv, etc.) to suit any requirements. Contact us today to learn more.
We provide tailored support for complex projects and assessments, leveraging our 16+ years of leadership in impact intelligence. Contact us today to learn more.
Sustainability is more than a buzzword – it is a necessary perspective on life.
This perspective requires breadth and depth for meaningful action.
GIST Impact offers a comprehensive set of quantitative environmental and social data – with market-leading coverage, full traceability to source, and all disclosure gaps filled.
As a pioneer of science-driven, institutionally-backed research for 16+ years, GIST Impact has emerged as a trusted source for clear and actionable sustainability data that matters.
FNZ, a leading global financial technology provider, sought accurate and far-reaching sustainability data to power its cutting-edge platforms – at an affordable price that they would not have to pass down to their clients.
GIST Impact provides FNZ with its comprehensive and traceable sustainability data, enabling FNZ to offer rigorous fund and portfolio sustainability analysis as part of their technology offering across the financial services industry.
Our Data Portal is a user-friendly gateway to our suite of climate, nature, social and other sustainability data – empowering rigorous analysis and intuitive workflows. Learn more here.
Our API toolkit allows you to integrate our impact intelligence flexibly into your existing systems, while providing it to your customers in a way that puts their needs first. Learn more here.
We offer access to our data directly and via our distribution partners – with files, formats and delivery mechanisms (e.g. SFTP, .csv, etc.) to suit any requirements. Contact us today to learn more.
We provide tailored support for complex projects and assessments, leveraging our 16+ years of leadership in impact intelligence. Contact us today to learn more.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) were set in 2016 and will last until 2030.
They have since become the global polestar for guiding action on the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing humankind.
GIST Impact quantifies and allocates company impacts across the SDGs in monetary terms.
As a global leader in measuring and quantifying company impacts, GIST Impact offers an unmatched, science-backed dataset that offers granular insight into the UN SDGs.
GPIF, the world’s largest pension fund, wanted to measure the impact of companies’ activities on the individual SDGs (so-called “SDGs impact”) using a financial scale.
GIST Impact empowered GPIF to analyse the SDGs impact of select companies in its portfolio across three categories: natural capital, human capital and produced capital. In so doing, GPIF presented itself as a thought leader – showcasing its findings in its annual ESG Report.
Our Data Portal is a user-friendly gateway to our suite of climate, nature, social and other sustainability data – empowering rigorous analysis and intuitive workflows. Learn more here.
Our API toolkit allows you to integrate our impact intelligence flexibly into your existing systems, while providing it to your customers in a way that puts their needs first. Learn more here.
We offer access to our data directly and via our distribution partners – with files, formats and delivery mechanisms (e.g. SFTP, .csv, etc.) to suit any requirements. Contact us today to learn more.
We provide tailored support for complex projects and assessments, leveraging our 16+ years of leadership in impact intelligence. Contact us today to learn more.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is the cornerstone of good governance and drives organisation performance.
Human Capital is one of the most valuable corporate assets, comprising employees’ knowledge and skills that drive growth within the organisation and wider society.
GIST Impact offers a wide-ranging dataset that reveals DEI performance and Human Capital generation at multiple levels of granularity.
Quantitative data ensures actionable insights and enables guided strategic and operational planning.
Infosys, a multinational IT services company, sought to quantify the impact of its training programs for graduate hires – and to leverage data to support its ongoing effort to manage, disclose and optimise the creation of Human Capital.
GIST Impact provided Infosys with a robust analysis of Human Capital creation across several years – both within the company (by employees who remain), and in the wider economy (by employees who leave). In turn, Infosys presented this analysis in its annual report – demonstrating the total value of its rigorous and competitive training schemes.
Our Data Portal is a user-friendly gateway to our suite of climate, nature, social and other sustainability data – empowering rigorous analysis and intuitive workflows. Learn more here.
Our API toolkit allows you to integrate our impact intelligence flexibly into your existing systems, while providing it to your customers in a way that puts their needs first. Learn more here.
We offer access to our data directly and via our distribution partners – with files, formats and delivery mechanisms (e.g. SFTP, .csv, etc.) to suit any requirements. Contact us today to learn more.
We provide tailored support for complex projects and assessments, leveraging our 16+ years of leadership in impact intelligence. Contact us today to learn more.
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