GIST Impact wins ESG Data Provider of the Year – EMEA 2024
GIST Impact is proud to announce that it has been named ESG Data Provider of the Year – EMEA in the Environmental Finance Sustainable Investment Awards 2024. The Sustainable Investment Awards seek to recognise asset managers, analysts and data providers incorporating ESG across all asset classes. The Best ESG Data Provider – EMEA category acknowledges […]
GIST Impact receives investment from UBS Next
Zurich, 20 June 2024 – Today GIST Impact, the leading provider of impact data and analytics, announced an investment from UBS Next, the leading universal Swiss bank’s venture and innovation unit. GIST Impact delivers actionable impact intelligence to companies and investors, helping them easily measure their environmental and social impacts. The firm’s data and software […]
GIST Impact and Systems 7 partner to enhance double materiality assessments for EU CSRD reporting
Exciting News! GIST Impact, a leading provider of impact data and analytics, is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with S7, an Oslo-based advisory firm that helps leaders drive transformation in their teams and organisations – supporting the health of the environmental, social, political and geopolitical systems in which they operate. Together, we are advancing […]
GIST Impact announces Vineet Gupta as Senior Vice President, Product
London, 12 June 2024 – Leading impact data and analytics provider GIST Impact today announced the strengthening of its leadership team with the appointment of Vineet Gupta as Senior Vice President, Product. Vineet joins GIST Impact from Meta, where he spearheaded product and go-to-market strategy development across several AI and machine learning-led products. Before Meta, […]
Impact Valuation Sprint Report
GIST Impact was delighted to contribute to the “Impact Valuation Sprint Report,” coordinated by the Value Balancing Alliance and launched in May 2024.
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 […]
Highlights from Natural Capital Investment Americas 2024
We were pleased to sponsor Environmental Finance’s annual event in New York, attended by over 200 senior leaders in the investment community.
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 […]
