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Nature and Biodiversity Suite

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 dependencies, risks and opportunities 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, the GIST Impact Nature and Biodiversity Suite (NBS) is an unmatched solution for measuring nature-related business impacts, dependencies risks and opportunities anywhere in the world.

Learn more about the GIST Impact NBS here

Technical Specifications

  • Location-specific assessment of nature and biodiversity impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities.
  • Coverage across 15,000+ listed companies worldwide.
  • Historical data from 2016.
  • Science-backed assessment of pressures on ecosystems via Potentially Disappeared Fraction of species (PDF).
  • Intuitive calculation of biodiversity pressures in terms of Land Conversion Equivalence (LCE), expressed in km2.
  • Universally-accepted measurement of state of ecosystems via Mean Species Abundance (MSA). 
  • Robust assessment of impact on Natural Capital, expressed in monetary terms.
  • Proximity analysis of >1.5 million operating assets to distinct risk areas – including 273,000 protected areas (WDPAs), 15,000 key biodiversity areas (KBAs), and 125,000 IUCN red list species locations.
  • Granular biophysical risk assessment across 20+ map layers (incl. carbon sequestration, water stress, etc), down to 300m2 resolution.
  • Market-leading machine learning estimations fill all disclosure gaps with unprecedented accuracy.
  • Market-leading machine learning estimations facilitate on-demand private asset / SME analysis.

Regulatory Alignment

  • Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD): end-to-end solution across all steps of the Locate, Evaluate, Assess, Prepare framework (LEAP). 
  • Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF): full-suite solution covering the footprinting and dependencies guidance, including impact driver drill-down and location-specific assessment of ecosystem dependencies.
TMX

The Challenge

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.

The Solution

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.

Data Portal

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

API

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.

Data Transfer

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.

Bespoke

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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Request a Methodology

Media ↓

  • News: GIST Impact featured in Environmental Finance article on nature data.
  • Webinar: Nature’s Value: integrating biodiversity data for effective investment strategies.
  • Case Study: Cape Capital uses GIST Impact data for inaugural report into nature positive investing.

Social Return on Investment

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. 

Technical Specifications

  • Calculation of social return on investment in monetary terms.
  • Location-specific assessment of social value generated.
  • Impact analysis by gender, region, programme and type of Capital (Natural, Human, Social).
  • Robust, science-backed methodology to measure future benefits not captured by traditional TOMs model.
  • Database of 2200+ social programmes for global benchmarking.
  • Institutional-grade macroeconomic databases to fill missing data.
  • Tailored impact pathways for skilling, apprenticeships, volunteering, fundraising and sports initiatives – with more to come and bespoke requests accepted.
  • Powerful SaaS solution combines streamlined data input and state-of-the-art visuals for a comprehensive analytical workflow.

Regulatory Alignment

  • UK Social Value Act: differentiate your bid from the rest – with quantitative and science-backed insights fully mapped across the Model Award Criteria (MAC) stipulated by the Social Value Model.
  • Complete mapping of insights to the Social Value Standards and the UN SDGs.

The Challenge

Microsoft wanted to understand the outcomes and impacts of their social programmes at a local level using a robust, institution-aligned methodology.

The Solution

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

Power SROI is a dedicated and intuitive SaaS solution for analysing the social return of your environmental and social investments. Learn more here.

API

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.

Data Transfer

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.

Bespoke

We provide tailored support for complex projects and assessments, leveraging our 16+ years of leadership in impact intelligence. Contact us today to learn more.

Request a Demo

Request a Data Sample

Request a Methodology

Media

  • News: GIST Impact featured in Microsoft whitepaper on solving for inclusive economic growth in the era of AI
  • News: GIST Impact joins Social Value UK network
  • Video: Apprenticeships and the UK Social Value Model

CSRD Double Materiality Scores

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.

Technical Specifications

  • Double Materiality Scores (including Impact Materiality and Financial Materiality Scores) across 50+ sectors.
  • Scores for 15,000+ listed companies as standard – with manual data input and score calculation available.
  • Transparent score methodology. 
  • Full traceability to underlying data and source documentation.
  • Market-leading machine learning estimations fill all disclosure gaps.
  • Market-leading machine learning estimations facilitate private asset / SME analysis.
  • Trend performance and industry benchmarking for data-driven strategy development.
  • Impacts in monetary terms for deep-dive analysis of Impacts, Risks and Opportunities (IROs) across a business and its subsidiaries.

Regulatory Alignment

  • Coverage across all ESRS topics, sub-topics, and sub-sub-topics as outlined in Application Requirement 16 (AR 16) of CSRD.
  • Intuitive scores built bottom-up using quantitative company data and objective scientific research – fully aligned with EFRAG Materiality Assessment Implementation Guidance (MAIG). 
  • EU ESG Ratings Regulation: individual scores across each ESRS sub-sub-topic, with full data drill-down and complete transparency over score methodology.

The Challenge

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.

The Solution

GIST Impact provides access to its Double Materiality Assessment Tool alongside a range of advisory services. This enables a quantitative and transparent assessment of 15,000+ listed companies (including global benchmarking), and supports on-demand private asset and business unit analysis.

Data Portal

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

API

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.

Data Book

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.

Bespoke

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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Request a Data Sample

Request a Methodology

Media ↓

  • LinkedIn: An overview of our Double Materiality Assessment Tool
  • LinkedIn: Combining quantitative insights with stakeholder engagement
  • LinkedIn: The power of quantitative insights for identifying Impacts, Risks and Opportunities

Impact Valuation

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.

Technical Specifications

  • Coverage across 15,000+ listed companies worldwide.
  • Historical data from 2016.
  • Full traceability to source documentation.
  • Location-specific data for precise insights at 50km2 granularity.
  • Market-leading machine learning estimations fill all disclosure gaps with unprecedented accuracy.
  • Market-leading machine learning estimations facilitate private asset / SME analysis.
  • Software and API toolkit enables impact valuation at company, subsidiary, business unit, and even asset levels.
  • Impact valuation methodology based on thousands of peer-reviewed scientific papers and robust economic modelling.
  • Transparent picture of risks and opportunities in monetary terms across all four Capitals – for summary as an Integrated Profit and Loss Statement.

Regulatory Alignment

  • Full alignment with frameworks and guidance issued by the Capitals Coalition and the Value Balancing Alliance (VBA). 
  • Impact valuation is the backbone of the double materiality assessment mandated by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
ubs

The Challenge

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.

The Solution

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.

Data Portal

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

SME360X is a streamlined impact measurement platform for SMEs. Learn more here.

API

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.

Data Transfer

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.

Bespoke

We provide tailored support for complex projects and assessments, leveraging our 16+ years of leadership in impact intelligence. Contact us today to learn more.

Request a Demo

Request a Data Sample

Request a Methodology

Media

  • Podcast: ESG vs Impact Investing with Pavan Sukhdev (hosted by TMX)
  • News: GIST Impact featured in Wipro whitepaper on impact accounting
  • Research: Integrated Profit and Loss Reporting

Traceable Sustainability Data

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.

Technical Specifications

  • Coverage across 15,000+ listed companies worldwide.
  • Historical data from 2016.
  • Full traceability to source documentation.
  • Market-leading machine learning estimations fill all disclosure gaps with unprecedented accuracy.
  • Market-leading machine learning estimations facilitate private asset / SME analysis.
  • 50+ quantitative metrics across the Environmental and Social pillars, including hard-to-find metrics such as air pollution and hazardous waste.
  • 50+ domain expert analysts ensure data quality.
  • Affordable sustainability data – without restrictions on use.

Regulatory Alignment

  • Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR): data ensures comprehensive alignment and insights, with coverage across 14 mandatory PAIs and 9 voluntary PAIs.
fnz

The Challenge

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. 

The Solution

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.

Data Portal

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

API

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.

Data Transfer

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.

Bespoke

We provide tailored support for complex projects and assessments, leveraging our 16+ years of leadership in impact intelligence. Contact us today to learn more.

Request a Demo

Request a Data Sample

Request a Methodology

Media ↓

  • LinkedIn: An overview of our Double Materiality Assessment Tool
  • LinkedIn: Combining quantitative insights with stakeholder engagement
  • LinkedIn: The power of quantitative insights for identifying Impacts, Risks and Opportunities

UN SDGs

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.

Technical Specifications

  • A granular and science-backed dataset quantifying and allocating impacts in monetary terms across 17 UN SDGs and 150+ individual targets.
  • Coverage across 15,000+ listed companies worldwide.
  • Historical data from 2016.
  • Full traceability to source documentation.
  • Market-leading machine learning estimations fill all disclosure gaps with unprecedented accuracy.
  • Market-leading machine learning estimations facilitate private asset / SME analysis.
  • 50+ domain expert analysts ensure data quality.
  • Impact valuation methodology based on thousands of peer-reviewed scientific papers and robust economic modelling.

The Challenge

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.

The Solution

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.

Data Portal

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

API

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.

Data Transfer

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.

Bespoke

We provide tailored support for complex projects and assessments, leveraging our 16+ years of leadership in impact intelligence. Contact us today to learn more.

Request a Demo

Request a Data Sample

Request a Methodology

Media

  • News: GIST Impact data included in latest ESG report from GPIF, the world’s largest pension fund
  • Research: Groundbreaking comparative study reveals natural farming shows improved yields, livelihoods and health

Human Capital and DEI

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.

Technical Specifications

  • Coverage extends to 15,000+ companies.
  • A holistic DEI picture – with metrics including labour force composition, gender pay gap, women on boards (%), ethnic diversity of employees (%), and CEO pay-to-average pay ratio.
  • Impacts on Human capital in monetary terms ensures a comparable and standardised assessment worldwide.
  • Trend performance and industry benchmarking for data-driven strategy development.
  • Impact valuation methodology based on thousands of peer-reviewed scientific papers and robust economic modelling.

The Challenge

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.

The Solution

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.

Data Portal

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

API

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.

Data Transfer

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.

Bespoke

We provide tailored support for complex projects and assessments, leveraging our 16+ years of leadership in impact intelligence. Contact us today to learn more.

Request a Demo

Request a Data Sample

Request a Methodology

Media ↓

  • Research: DEI performance report across top 350 EU companies
  • Blog: The future of social impact: seven trends to watch in 2024

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Data Transfer

Use our flexible data delivery mechanisms according to your need.

API

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SaaS

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