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 […]

World Environment Day 2021: Thoughts from the GIST Impact team

World Environment Day (WED) is just around the corner, falling on Saturday the 5th of June. WED was established in 1972 by the United Nations at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, as a result of discussions on the integration of human interactions and the environment. Almost 50 years later, it remains an annual […]

A Pragmatic Technologist

Liam Kennedy from IPE interviews GIST Impact CEO & Founder, Pavan Sukhdev.(Posted with permission from IPE) Pavan Sukhdev, CEO of GIST Impact, describes his firm as being at the “intersection” of technology and sustainability. His passion may be sustainability but it simply would not have been possible to solve the analytical problems GIST seeks to […]

FT: Big data helps put numbers on sustainability

Investor demand for information is driving new accounting models.An article in the Financial Times. Check out this week’s Financial Times featuring Pavan Sukhdev, GIST Impact’s CEO & Founder, on how investor demand for information is driving new accounting models and how GIST Impact is meeting that need. Accounting pioneers, like GIST Impact, are enabling stock […]