GIST Impact data now accessible via Snowflake
Nov 20th Update: You can now access our latest biodiversity data via Snowflake Marketplace. This data aligns with major frameworks such as TNFD and PBAF, and is a great measure of assessing corporate and investor risks and opportunities arising from nature-based impacts of companies and portfolios. In this era of greater corporate disclosure of sustainability […]
Manage What You Measure: US Sustainability Trends and Benchmarks
Fund managers returning to their desks following the Independence Day barbecues, were most likely unaware that each million dollars they commit to a well-known US index of the 500 top US companies generates $3,700 of negative environmental impact from companies’ operations alone. These same investors may have been less surprised to discover that nearly 70% […]
GIST Impact launches one-click download options for its GHG and water data products
GIST Impact has just launched bitesize versions of our greenhouse gas (GHG) and water data products, covering reported data by major listed companies in two key markets – USA and Europe. The data can be used by investors, educators, researchers, and analysts to track and compare company performance, validate an investment thesis, report on impact, […]
GIST Impact in conversation with UBS’s Sustainability and Impact Institute
“The question is, can we change this neoclassical economy of ours into what we call an impact economy?” GIST Impact Founder and CEO Pavan Sukhdev recently sat down with Julie Hudson, Senior ESG Advisor, UBS Global Research, and founding member of UBS’s Sustainability and Impact Institute, and Leeds University professor Piers Forster to discuss why […]
PRESS RELEASE: FNZ makes investment in GIST to accelerate sustainable investing globally
[17 May 2022]: FNZ, the leading global wealth management platform, today announced that it has made a strategic investment in GIST, the pioneering impact data and analytics company that provides investors and companies with quantitative, comparable, and verifiable measures of corporate impact and performance across all four capitals: natural, human, social, and produced. As well […]
GIST Impact Welcomes The SEC’s Proposed Mandatory Climate-Related Risk Disclosures
GIST Impact Welcomes The SEC’s Proposed Mandatory Climate-Related Risk Disclosures The SEC has proposed new rules for mandatory climate-related risk disclosures in registration statements and annual reports. If adopted, these rules will require regulated firms to provide material information about climate-risks, including a registrant’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and new financial metrics in audited accounts. […]
GIST and Value Balancing Alliance: Joint Statement
Forging new expectations towards measuring corporate performance LONDON / FRANKFURT, March 16th 2022. GIST and the Value Balancing Alliance (VBA) are pleased to announce that they have agreed to work together with the shared aim to help companies and investment professionals measure corporate performance across four key dimensions of impact: natural, human, social and financial […]
PRESS RELEASE: MSCI Partners with Impact Data Provider GIST Impact
LONDON – January 12, 2022 – MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI), a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, today announced a partnership with GIST Impact, a pioneering data and analytics company. GIST’s Impact Data, which measures the value a company is adding to or subtracting from society’s natural, […]
Pavan Sukhdev in conversation with Andy Serwer at Yahoo!Finance
Earlier this month, GIST CEO & Founder, Pavan Sukhdev, joined Andy Serwer from Yahoo Finance to discuss environmental conservation, ESG investing, and whether investors and corporations are walking the talk on climate. Pavan shared with Andy how today’s externalities are tomorrow’s risks and the day after’s losses, and how investors are waking up to the […]
From Profit Accounting to Impact Accounting
Published by By Pavan Sukhdev Chief Executive Officer, GIST Impact; Goodwill Ambassador, UNEP; President, WWF International and Dr. Katell Le Goulven Executive Director, Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society, INSEAD This has been an interesting week for mainstreaming sustainability into the world of business and finance. A G7 meeting of finance ministers formally endorsed […]
