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Our partners include consultants, technology and data providers, and world-renowned institutions. Together we are making impact economics a reality – united in belief that what you cannot measure, you cannot manage.

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We are partnered with the best to scale our impact

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Consultants

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GIST Impact is proud to partner with consultants to streamline their impact assessment and advisory workflows.

KPMG needed impact data and platforms that are robust, easily-accessible, and aligned with the Value Balancing Alliance methodology. The goal was to maximise the efficiency of their project teams and support their research and delivery workflows worldwide.

GIST Impact provides KPMG with ‘super-user’ access to its platforms and impact measurement toolkit. In so doing, it enables individual project teams across KPMG and its member firms to use efficient data and solutions for delivery workflows at scale.

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GIST Impact is proud to partner with consultants to streamline their impact assessment and advisory workflows.

Systems 7, a Norwegian advisory firm, sought to complement its expertise in stakeholder engagement by working with a reliable data partner. The goal was to accelerate the production of CSRD compliance action plans for its private equity clients.

Thanks to its proprietary Double Materiality Assessment Tool, GIST Impact assists Systems 7 by calculating intuitive double materiality scores and using machine learning to estimate data gaps with market-leading accuracy. These CSRD scores form an objective, science-based foundation to the qualitative stakeholder workshops led by Systems 7, and facilitate the completion of CSRD disclosures with maximum efficiency.

Technology and Data Partners

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GIST Impact works with world-leading companies to develop innovative products around emerging consumer values and regulations.

FNZ, a leading global wealth management platform, sought to differentiate its FNZ Impact solution for financial institutions. The goal was to provide clients with hyper-personalised information around the environmental and social impacts of investment portfolios – empowering portfolio optimisation around financial parameters as well as personal preferences and values.

GIST Impact provides a complete, consistent and universal perspective on materiality. It uses a science-based approach to measure and value corporate impacts in monetary terms based on the โ€˜Four Capitalsโ€™ framework and mapped to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). In so doing, it enables investors using the FNZ platform to drive capital towards the things they care about, on their own terms.

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GIST Impact works with world-leading companies to develop innovative products around emerging consumer values and regulations.

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 rooted in the Four Capitals approach endorsed by the Capitals Coalition. Employing GIST Impactโ€™s advanced methodology and datasets, this platform provides a place-based understanding of outcomes and impacts, quantifying social and environmental value creation in economic terms.

Clarity AI

GIST Impact enriches marketplaces and exchanges with innovative, one-of-a-kind data.

Clarity AI, a leading sustainability technology platform, sought a biodiversity data solution that helps clients to identify and size their exposure to companies with a negative impact on biodiversity. The goal was to facilitate informed investment decisions and company engagement practices.

Leveraging its extensive experience and knowledge on biodiversity impact assessments, GIST Impact provides Clarity AI with credible data that is company-specific, geographically accurate, and offers the most holistic coverage of biodiversity impact drivers anywhere in the market. Moreover, this data is fully aligned with the recommendations of the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and the Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF).

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GIST Impact enriches marketplaces and exchanges with innovative, one-of-a-kind data.

As the operator of Canada’s largest stock exchange (TSX), TMX sought reliable and high-quality data for its ESG Data Hub. The goal was to provide a wide range of sustainability datasets to support portfolio construction, enhanced investment strategies, and investment risk management processes.

GIST Impact provides market-leading environmental and social datasets for calculating corporate impacts. In so doing, it enables TMX to differentiate its product offering and empowering investors to make well-rounded and informed investment decisions beyond financial factors.

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GIST Impact works with world-leading companies to develop innovative products around emerging consumer values and regulations.

givvable is an award-winning platform for searching, screening and tracking verified sustainability actions, attributes and credentials of suppliers. It sought to facilitate SMEs and supply chain managers to accelerate their sustainability journey via impact assessment.

GIST Impact has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with givvable to support supply chain leaders. It will enable them to carry out impact profiling using the estimation, benchmarking and insights capabilities of our SME360X platform.

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GIST Impact works with world-leading companies to develop innovative products around emerging consumer values and regulations.

Offering a SaaS platform designed to help companies manage their CSRD journey, Sustain it Right sought a quantitative, data-driven solution to streamline the first hurdle facing its clients – the double materiality assessment.

Integrating its proprietary, quantitative double materiality assessment scores into Sustain It Right‘s iDMA solution, GIST Impact provides a transparent, science-backed and efficient assessment of corporate double materiality. The data, in the form of intuitive scores with full drill-down functionality, covers all ESRS sub-sub-topics and aligns with EFRAG Materiality Assessment Implementation Guidance.

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GIST Impact offers its datasets on the world’s leading data marketplaces – facilitating quick and easy testing and integration, with free trial access available and multiple data delivery methods.

Snowflake is a marketplace with over 580 providers offering 2,500 live, ready-to-use data, apps and products.

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GIST Impact offers its datasets on the world’s leading data marketplaces – facilitating quick and easy testing and integration, with free trial access available and multiple data delivery methods.

Datarade is a marketplace with over 500 providers offering 4,000 products for 100,000 monthly visitors.

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GIST Impact offers its datasets on the world’s leading data marketplaces – facilitating quick and easy testing and integration, with free trial access available and multiple data delivery methods.

Amalthea is a specialised aggregator of climate and environmental data, catering to banks and other lenders.

Institutional Partners

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GIST Impact collaborates with internationally-renowned organisations to deliver superior products that facilitate impact valuation and biodiversity risk assessment.

The IBAT Alliance is an alliance of world-leading organisations that have created a web-based mapping and reporting tool, offering access to global biodiversity datasets and facilitating better environmental decisions. This tool is used by companies, governments, researchers, and financial institutions.

As another world-leading provider of biodiversity intelligence, GIST Impact integrates IBAT data on Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), World Database on Protected Areas (WDPAs), and IUCN Red List species. Combining this data with its own extensive asset location database, GIST Impact thereby enables its clients to identify the proximity of corporate operations to biodiversity hotspots.

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GIST Impact is a leading voice and reliable partner across an international nexus of research institutions, trade organisations, and rule-setting bodies.

Established in 1881, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania is the world’s oldest collegiate business school – and boasting over 5,000 students.

GIST Impact is proud to collaborate with Wharton to advance new research exploring the relationship between monetised impacts and financial performance. Intended to result in peer-reviewed publications, this research is part of a project that uses impact valuation to measure the business case for corporate and investor engagement on ESG issues.

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GIST Impact is a leading voice and reliable partner across an international nexus of research institutions, trade organisations, and rule-setting bodies.

With campuses in France, Singapore, the United States, and the United Arab Emiratres, INSEAD is one of the world’s leading and largest graduate business schools – boasting over 1,500 students across degree and PhD programmes.

GIST Impact is proud to contribute to INSEAD education, research and outreach as it explores the intersection of business and society. In turn, the partnership equips business leaders and decision makers with tools and frameworks that deliver positive outcomes for business, communities, people and our planet in line with globally agreed sustainability goals.

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GIST Impact is a leading voice and reliable partner across an international nexus of research institutions, trade organisations, and rule-setting bodies.

The Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) a market-led, science-based and government-supported global initiative. Its recommendations and guidance provide organisations with a risk management and disclosure framework to act on evolving nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities.

As a TNFD Early Adopter – committing us to disclosures aligned with TNFD recommendation from 2024 onwards – GIST Impact believes in the strategic importance of nature for business. Is it therefore developing its data and solutions in alignment with TNFD to support investors and corporates to become nature positive.

International Chamber of Commerce

GIST Impact collaborates with internationally-renowned organisations to deliver superior products that facilitate impact valuation and biodiversity risk assessment.

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is the largest, most representative business organization in the world. Its 45+ million members in over 100 countries have interests spanning every sector of private enterprise – with a world network of national committees advocating business priorities and regional and national levels.

Driven by the ICC‘s commitment to accelerating sustainability and climate action, GIST Impact and the ICC have co-developed SME360X. This solution supports organisations to engage small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their sustainability processes – by offering a data disclosure and impact measurement platform that is fully aligned with regulations and frameworks such as CSRD and TNFD.

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GIST Impact is a leading voice and reliable partner across an international nexus of research institutions, trade organisations, and rule-setting bodies.

The Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS) promotes sustainable development. It conducts cutting-edge research, leads conversations with governments and civil society, shares knowledge and provides innovative tools.

GIST Impact offers its advanced impact data solutions and expertise in natural capital impact measurement and biodiversity assessments to CEBDS member companies. In so doing, it equips them with the tools and insights necessary to measure and manage their environmental impacts while aligning with global standards such as the TNFD.

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GIST Impact is a leading voice and reliable partner across an international nexus of research institutions, trade organisations, and rule-setting bodies.

The Value Balancing Alliance (VBA) is an alliance of multinational companies coming together with a common goal: to create a way of measuring and comparing the value of contributions made by businesses to society, the economy, and the environment โ€“ a metric not previously reflected in a company’s balance sheet.

Offering its I360X tool to VBA member companies, GIST Impact works alongside the VBA to standardise the methodology for assessing corporate sustainability performance using monetary impact valuation. Their collaboration also extends to encouraging companies to report more data, more consistently and transparently, for use in decision-making processes.

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GIST Impact is a leading voice and reliable partner across an international nexus of research institutions, trade organisations, and rule-setting bodies.

The Capitals Coalition develops, advocates for and advances the capitals approach. It collaborates with a diverse array of individuals and organisations to accelerate the transition to a holistic understanding of value, as well as to transform decision-making worldwide.

As a member of the Values Commission, a signatory of the Values Accounting Network, and a contributor to the EU-funded Transparent Project, GIST Impact actively upholds the the capitals approach of the Capitals Coalition. It wholeheartedly supports its mission to redefine value and transform decision-making at all levels of business and government.

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GIST Impact is a leading voice and reliable partner across an international nexus of research institutions, trade organisations, and rule-setting bodies.

Established in 2022, the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI) grew out of the Impact Weighted Accounts Project (IWA) – founded in 2019 at Harvard Business School with the mission to prove that impact accounting is both feasible and valuable.

As a member of the Value Balancing Alliance (VBA), GIST Impact is heartened to see that VBA and IFVI have struck a partnership to develop one common impact accounting methodology for the public good.

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GIST Impact is a leading voice and reliable partner across an international nexus of research institutions, trade organisations, and rule-setting bodies.

Established in 2009, the WifOR Institute is a macroeconomic research institute and think-tank that conducts research in the areas of labour markets, sustainability, and health. It seeks to initiate public discourse and developing valid, comparable data to make evidence-based decisions leading to a sustainable social, environmental, and economic development of global society.

In pursuit of an open and standardised approach to impact valuation, GIST Impact and the WifOR Institute have published value factors and coefficients across 25 countries. In addition, they have agreed upon a framework and methodology that enables investors and corporates to begin their journey towards assessing their impacts on Natural, Human, Social and Produced capital.

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GIST Impact is a leading voice and reliable partner across an international nexus of research institutions, trade organisations, and rule-setting bodies.

Social Value UK and Social Value India are part of Social Value International – the global network for social value and impact management. It brings together practitioners, organisations and change-makers from around the world with a shared mission to change the way the world accounts for value.

GIST Impact is thrilled to be a part of Social Value UK and Social Value India. This collaboration fortifies our commitment to measuring and evaluating social value – by aligning ourselves with globally recognised principles, engaging with a broader community of social value practitioners, and utilising the broad database of programs and tools that enable us to drive innovation in the realm of social impact measurement.

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