GIST Impact at COP 16
GIST Impact has landed in Cali, Colombia, for the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Aside from attending meeting with new and…
Sustainability with Impact: Go beyond traditional ESG risk management frameworks by using our location-specific impact and biophysical risk data to identify and mitigate unseen risks in investment portfolios and investee supply chains.
Biodiversity Risk and Opportunities: Employ detailed biodiversity data, such as analysis of proximity to key biodiversity areas and protected regions, to manage and mitigate nature-related financial risks – ensuring investments do not adversely impact critical ecosystems.
Integrated Profit and Loss: Utilise monetary impact valuation across Natural, Human, Social, and Produced capitals to incorporate a comprehensive view of sustainability risks into financial statements and modelling, supporting informed risk management decisions.
Uncover Alpha: Leverage our granular sustainability datasets to capitalize on systemic trends and changing values worldwide – by spotting impact and biodiversity leaders and planning for the long-term.
Regional Insights: Use our location-specific impact and biodiversity data to identify attractive investment opportunities in regions demonstrating robust sustainability practices.
Precise Estimations: Utilise market-leading machine learning estimations to fill all disclosure gaps and discover value in both public and private markets.
Funds, Portfolios, Indexes: Utilise our granular, quantitative impact and biodiversity data dating back to 2016 to construct, backtest, and optimise innovative thematic products along a forward-looking efficient frontier.
Bonds and Issuances: Meet growing demand in capital markets by developing, launching, and underwriting sustainable instruments backed by data built upon thousands of peer-reviewed articles and robust economic modelling.
Client Advisory: Guide mergers, acquisitions and strategy worldwide with location-specific data and market-leading machine learning estimations that provide an unprecedented view into the sustainability characteristics of public and private assets.
Comply and Explain: Utilise science-backed, institutional-grade data that is mapped to the latest legislation and frameworks to align seamlessly with the UN SDGs, SFDR, CSRD, and TNFD.
Performance Benchmarking: Create robust and tailored benchmarks to unearth trends, track performance and optimise for leaders and laggards thanks to a global coverage of 14,500+ listed companies.
Transparency and Traceability: Enhance client reporting by leveraging our dedicated platform solutions and as-standard traceability of each datapoint to source documentation.
Sustainability with Impact: Go beyond traditional ESG risk management frameworks by using our location-specific impact and biodiversity data to assess company operations and supply chains – ensuring corporate operations do not adversely impact critical ecosystems and society, retaining appeal for investors, and maintaining licence to operate.
Double Materiality: Adopt a holistic perspective on risks by performing a quantitative double materiality assessment – thanks to intuitive scores aligned with CSRD requirements; market-leading machine learning estimations that make disclosure gaps a thing of the past; and monetised impact valuation for deep-dive analysis of Impacts, Risks, and Opportunities across the business and its subsidiaries.
Integrated Profit and Loss: Utilise monetary impact valuation across Natural, Human, Social, and Produced capitals to incorporate a comprehensive view of sustainability risks into corporate financial statements and modelling – supporting informed decision-making, strategic planning, and holistic reporting.
Sustainability-Driven Innovation: Leverage our granular sustainability datasets to capitalize on growth opportunities in fast-growing sectors, driven by systemic trends and changing values worldwide.
Regional Insights: Enhance regional strategies and market entry plans by using our location-specific impact and biodiversity data to seize business opportunities in regions demonstrating robust sustainability and biodiversity practices.
Programme Optimisation: Assess impacts and social return on investment of environmental and social programmes – to optimise impacts across nature and society, and undertake scalable and efficient improvements.
Market Expansion: Quantify impacts and dependencies on the environment and society of existing and planned operations – mitigating avoidable risk and facilitating long-term regional strategy.
Strategic Partnerships: Examine regional and sector-wide performance across a multitude of impact and biodiversity metrics to find synergies among peers for commercial and social development purposes.
Customer Engagement: Adapt the intuitive and clear meaning behind impact and biodiversity data for storytelling purposes, showcasing robust sustainability practices to keep clients aware of improvements.
Performance Benchmarking: Identify industry leaders and laggards by creating custom, granular benchmarks – unearthing trends, tracking performance and refining corporate strategy thanks to a global coverage of 14,500+ listed companies.
Comply and Explain: Utilise science-backed, institutional-grade data that is mapped to the latest legislation and frameworks to align seamlessly with the CSRD, TNFD, SFDR and the UN SDGs – as well as setting objective materiality thresholds for robust compliance.
Transparency and Traceability: Enhance client reporting by leveraging our dedicated platform solutions and as-standard traceability of each datapoint to source documentation.
The company has the goal of doubling social capital impact over five years but no means of measuring progress.
Solution
GIST Impact prepares a series of annual Integrated Profit & Loss (IP&L™) Reports and benchmarks, KPIs, data frameworks and toolkits to measure and demonstrate successful delivery of the goal across multiple programmes.
Outcome
The company achieves its goal ahead of time and extends the programme through additional investments.
The company feared that its efforts to preserve nature were undervalued in a world focused on profit and loss.
Solution
GIST Impact measured the impact on environment and society of the company’s forestry operations and the offsetting benefits of preserving ecosystem services from owned forests.
Outcome
The company produces an Integrated Profit and Loss Report (IP&L™) that more than justifies its forest management policies by proving its contribution to GDP is more than twice its reported profits, and its ecosystem services are worth approximately USD 730 million and growing.
The company must demonstrate to stakeholders the expected return on additional investment in skills training.
Solution
GIST Impact values the human capital creation and positive human capital externality resulting from existing investments.
Outcome
The company justifies additional capital spending through a time series analysis, benchmarking to industry standards and a return-on-investment calculation.
The pension fund is committed to reporting its impact using the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but needs a quantitative rather than qualitative assessment.
Solution
GIST Impact’s valuations provided through a distribution partner enable the pension fund to evaluate companies from the perspective of alignment with UN SDGs.
Outcome
The pension fund has the necessary financial scale to evaluate investments and move towards accurate SDG alignment at portfolio level.
GIST Impact has landed in Cali, Colombia, for the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Aside from attending meeting with new and…
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