Nature Meets Climate: Their Combined Financial Risk
Nature risk and climate risk are usually assessed as separate problems. In practice, they rarely behave that way – the real exposure for investors and asset managers often sits where the two overlap. That was the starting point for our recent webinar, hosted by Environmental Finance, bringing together experts from GIST Impact, Allianz and Northern […]
Key Takeaways: ‘The Accounting Paradox’ Book Launch
On 26 August 2026, social impact champions, regulators, corporate leaders and public health experts gathered together in New Delhi, and sat around one table to ask a deceptively simple question. What if the way we measure profit has been hiding the real cost of doing business all along? The event marked the launch of a […]
A Pocket Guide to: Nature Data Metrics
Heavy jargon makes nature data tough to navigate. This pocket guide is a reference companion with easy to digest breakdowns of the most common nature data metrics that financial institutions (FIs) use. We unpack what each metric measures alongside practical examples of usage showing how to evaluate nature dependencies and impacts, as well as risks […]
We don’t compete with open source data, we complete it
For most organisations that are starting their sustainability journeys, open-source sustainability data presents itself as a natural first step. This is rightfully so; over the past few years, open-source data has moved mountains to democratise both nature and climate intelligence by providing scientifically backed datasets equipped with the correct information that companies require. However, there […]
Introducing our Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities dataset
Yanomami. Batwa and Bambuti. Saami. Jenu Kuruba. Chances are, none of these names are familiar. Yet each is an indigenous community currently in the news for the same reason: loss of habitat to development activity. This is not incidental. Indigenous communities are rarely captured in standard ESG datasets. That’s not because they lack materiality, but […]
Jonquil Hackenberg joins our Advisory Board
GIST Impact is delighted to announce the appointment of Jonquil Hackenberg to our Advisory Board. Jonquil brings 25 years of executive leadership in large-scale transformation, climate, resource recovery, water systems and decarbonisation. Her most recent position has been as Chief Executive of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the world’s leading circular economy NGO, refocusing a global […]
GIST Impact’s 2025 TNFD Report
Over half of global GDP is estimated to be moderately or highly dependent on nature. As ecosystems degrade, that dependency turns into real business risk. These show up as disrupted supply chains, water and energy insecurity, stranded assets, tightening regulation. The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) exists to help organisations get ahead of that […]
Can you trust nature data?
If you work in the sustainability space in any capacity, you’ve probably heard some version of “nature data is too complicated. Let’s revisit it down the line.” This is large in part because nature data is a lot more nascent and complex compared to climate data. For starters, there’s no single metric you can default […]
Introducing Ocean Sensitive Areas, built with Hub Ocean
“Reefs damaged by oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.” “87% of Malaysia’s sensitive marine environments sit directly in offshore oil production zones.” Headlines like these are indeed surfacing more often, and they share a common thread in that the risk was there long before it made the news, but nobody had the means to […]
Taking the LEAP: How Reconomy navigates TNFD reporting
Financial institutions are under growing pressure to assess and report on nature-related risks, impacts, and dependencies, while consultancies face rising demand to help clients navigate that work. Compared to the relatively mature landscape of climate data, nature data remains a nascent space, one that is still evolving to establish its baseline metrics. It’s complex, multi-layered, […]
