The true costs of environmental damage: Uncovering the hidden impact
Accounting standards change slowly, while regulations often update after a disaster. The recent focus on sustainability and financial reporting has brought to light the importance of using data to prepare and protect assets and investments. However, with the debate on whether to use qualitative or quantitative data and whether to adopt single or double materiality, […]
China’s $148 billion water management: The importance of water risk data for investors
China’s water crisis is a pressing issue for both the country and its investors. The Chinese Ministry of Water Resources announced this week that the country spent over $148 billion on managing water resources last year.1 Despite this significant investment, water scarcity remains a major concern. Over the summer, factories in southwest China had to […]
How to avoid greenwashing in the mining sector?
Non-disclosure of ESG metrics is rife in the mining sector. Impact investing shines a light on what missing data could reveal. ESG investors use this to support the transition to a sustainable economy. How? Only 3 from 56 global miners accurately report the Tailing Dam Waste from their operations. All the remaining companies pretend […]
Biodiversity Impacts Framework for Enterprise and Portfolios
Over the last decade, “TEEB for Business” became a favoured reference for thousands of businesses to identify, explore, quantify, value and manage their impacts and dependence on nature. TEEB for Business had emphasised that “it is important to look beyond direct impacts and dependence, to consider the indirect”, however, there is as yet no standardised […]
Briefing: Germany’s energy options
GIST Impact research featured in Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE) magazine – January 2023
Against all odds – CBD COP-15 and its implications for business and nature
Against all odds, the Kunming-Montréal CBD COP¹ -15 delivered a Global Biodiversity Framework that sets the right priorities to give nature a fighting chance. The odds against this COP were indeed great: Covid-19 had delayed this Conference of Parties two years from its original October 2020 timeline; the Ukraine war had sucked away energy and […]
Guest post: Working together to support food systems transformations
Doreen Robinson, Head of Biodiversity & Land at UN Environment Programme, delivered a stirring opening speech at the COP15 TEEBAgrifood side event on December 14: “Recognizing and managing the value of nature’s contribution to people through food systems transformation.” We wanted to share her inspiring remarks – included below is an extract published with her permission. Food […]
COP15: Why true cost accounting must be part of the solution
The new Global Biodiversity Framework has been agreed for this decade, a critical moment for nature. But what is really at stake when it comes to our food systems and agriculture, the main drivers of biodiversity loss? What changes do we really need to see to halt and reverse this loss? Our CEO Pavan Sukhdev shared his views […]
GIST Impact at CBD COP15
Our businesses. Our economies. All of our livelihoods depend on nature. But nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history. This December, governments, civil society, businesses and financial institutions will come together to agree on a Global Biodiversity Framework at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP15. The framework agreed here will represent […]
Introducing GIST Impact!
We’re excited to announce the launch of our new brand identity and website! We have evolved considerably as a company since our founding 16 years ago – our expert team of scientists, engineers, economists, and data analysts has grown significantly, we’ve expanded our range of offerings and we are proud to call some of the […]
