How about levelling the playing field for impact investing vs mainstream investing?
Over the last two years, 2019 to 2021, impact investing has seen remarkable asset growth: from USD 0.58 trillion to 1.64 trillion, around 70% per annum. While we can be encouraged by the important mindset shifts underpinning this growth, it still begs the question: can we realistically expect current impact investing models to drive enough […]
GIST Impact CEO featured on Accelerating Climate Solutions podcast
With the industrial food system now accounting for a third of all global greenhouse gas emissions, transforming food systems has never been more critical to advance climate resilience and ecological conservation. On the latest episode of the Accelerating Climate Solutions podcast, our Founder and CEO Pavan Sukhdev and Sara Farley, Vice President of The Rockefeller […]
SFDR – The Hardest Data Challenges to Solve
Our recent workshop on SFDR featured an open discussion on the main challenges facing asset and wealth managers in sourcing and reporting data to meet PAI requirements. GIST Impact’s CEO, Pavan Sukhdev, highlighted the importance of interpretation, measurement and benchmarking of PAIs. It is mandatory to provide these indicators for qualification as a sustainable investment […]
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 […]
