Webinar – Nature’s Value: Integrating Biodiversity Data for Effective Investment Strategies

In our latest webinar, GIST Impact CEO Pavan Sukhdev and Global Partner Rayne van den Berg discussed the topic of “Nature’s Value: Integrating Biodiversity Data for Effective Investment Strategies”. With the global shift towards nature-focused reporting, it’s crucial for investors to understand the significance of biodiversity in their strategies. We explored key considerations and the role of data […]

Measuring ecosystem services and overall value for Sveaskog

Opportunity Sveaskog is Sweden’s largest forestry company and owns over 14% of the nation’s forests. Sveaskog wanted to understand the net benefits to society provided through ecosystem services from Sveaskog’s owned forests. Solution GIST Impact measured the impact on environment and society of the company’s forestry operations and the offsetting benefits of preserving ecosystem services […]

Yarra Valley Water’s biodiversity journey

Opportunity to conduct biodiversity footprinting As Melbourne’s largest water utility, Yarra Valley Water (YVW) recognised its responsibility towards sustainability and wanted to demonstrate its commitment and progress to restorative practices. The company sought GIST Impact’s help to progress in its biodiversity journey, to develop its first Integrated Profit & Loss Report and benchmark its environmental […]

Sectoral biodiversity analysis in two levels

Challenge An institutional investor (£700+ billion AUM) with a commitment to becoming a nature-positive firm needed to assess the biodiversity impact and environmental materiality of their portfolio. Their goal was to inform strategic investmentdecisions, including reallocation from high- to low-impact sectors and investees. Conducting Biodiversity Footprinting GIST Impact produced company-specific biodiversity footprints for portfolio investees […]

Podcast: TMX Presents – ESG VS. Impact Investing: Understanding the difference with Pavan Sukhdev

Our CEO Pavan Sukhdev joined the TMX Presents podcast to discuss what is at the heart of impact economics, growing investor interest in nature and biodiversity impacts, and why it’s important to include the value of all four capitals (human, natural, social, and produced) in investment and policy decision-making. Listen to the full podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/4UWuUVrHq0eReIBORRhVLX

Industry reveal: What is the natural capital impact of the top pharmaceutical companies?

We recently looked at the top pharmaceutical companies across developed markets to assess how successful they’ve been in reducing their natural capital impacts. Our analysis found that only 3 of the largest companies (by revenue) in developed markets outperformed the sector average in terms of reducing their overall natural capital impacts (measured by impact intensities […]

GIST Impact and SIR partner to support companies with CSRD

April 9, 2024 – GIST Impact today announced the launch of our new partnership with Sustain It Right (SIR), a SaaS platform designed to help companies manage their CSRD journey. Together we are enhancing double materiality assessments through the integration of GIST Impact’s quantitative double materiality scores into Sustain It Right’s “Intelligent DMA” (iDMA) solution. […]