GIST Impact

How do you put together an assurance-ready natural capital report - fully aligned with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)? Listen to GIST Impact Global Partner Rayne van den Berg describe her pioneering work with Forico Pty Limited, resulting in world-leading Natural Capital reports and a world-first integrated TCFD+TNFD report. Putting nature on the balance sheet requires a shift in perspective - but the data and know-how is already available to take this next step. Watch the full webinar to learn more about the different ways of measuring biodiversity footprints and the data-driven solutions available to help investors, lenders and corporates take nature into account. Link to webinar and presentation: https://lnkd.in/dJ-DS8_E #biodiversity #naturalcapital #tnfd #cop16 #impact #sustainability Read Forico's latest Natural Capital report here: https://lnkd.in/eAFjJ5SE Read Forico's integrated TNFD+TCFD report here: https://lnkd.in/erQRjenh

We’re excited to announce our partnership with Springpod, a leading education technology platform 🚀 By combining our intelligent Power SROI (Social Return on Investment) platform with Springpod’s innovative work-based learning experiences, this cutting-edge solution offers organisations unprecedented transparency and precision in tracking, evidencing and communicating their social impact, giving them a competitive advantage and driving meaningful social change. 👏 To date, Springpod has supported over 600,000 young people by helping them take their next steps with newfound confidence built on the development of hard and soft skills. 💪 Long-gone are the days where social impact is a ‘nice-to-have’—the demand for organisations to clearly demonstrate their social value has never been higher. 🤝 We’re proud to provide a collaborative solution that simplifies and elevates how social impact is captured, understood, and reported by organisations - elevating its critical factor in decision-making. Find out about Power SROI: https://lnkd.in/ev3SAUTD More on our partnership here: https://lnkd.in/eVzFG__x #SocialImpact #PowerSROI #ImpactIntelligence #Partnership

🗺 🤯 Did you know we’ve mapped the locations of over 2.5+ million individual business assets around the world? This has numerous benefits - but specifically helps with the first step of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), which requires businesses to locate where their operations interface with nature. Through our partnership with Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) - an alliance of four world-renowned organisations (BirdLife International, Conservation International, IUCN and UNEP-WCMC), we can also locate how these 2.5+ million individual business assets interface with nature across: 📍 300,000+ Protected Areas 📍 160,000+ Red List Species 📍 16,000+ Key Biodiversity Areas And if that wasn’t enough, we can break down these interfaces by region and asset type - making TNFD alignment a (data-packed) breeze. What’s more, if your company isn’t on our database, just send us your data and we’ll run the analysis for you. What are you waiting for?! (Every day we wait, another 82 species will go extinct*). Follow along to explore how GIST Impact supports businesses in their next step of TNFD alignment: evaluating their biodiversity impacts and dependencies. #COP16 #Biodiversity #TNFD #Sustainability *Source: https://lnkd.in/dJNUr8h Yara International

"Energy utilities technically are not... destroying any forests or damming any wetlands... but they have huge footprints because of their GHG emissions and water consumption." As we build up to COP 16, listen to GIST Impact Founder and CEO Pavan Sukhdev explain the difference between direct and indirect impact drivers. Watch the full webinar to learn more about the different ways of measuring biodiversity footprints and the data-driven solutions available to help investors, lenders and corporates take nature into account. Link to webinar and presentation: https://lnkd.in/dJ-DS8_E #biodiversity #cop16 #impact #sustainability #footprint

Our latest webinar is now available to watch on demand. Learn about the CSRD as an innovation and value opportunity! Our three speakers - Sam King (SVP Corporate, GIST Impact), Ben Wood PhD (Principal, S7) and Jette Ås Harbo (Regulatory Product Development Manager, Celsia) - showcase how their offerings fit into an end-to-end solution, and deliver important insights across the following topics: ✅ The double materiality assessment - including the importance of impact valuation. ✅ CSRD and value creation - including the identification of both value-at-risk and value-to-gain. ✅ Shifts in reporting requirements - including the need for enhanced data management practices. Please visit our website to watch the webinar and download the presentation: https://lnkd.in/eANmh_bD #csrd #impact #impactmateriality #doublemateriality #sustainability

🚨🌪️ A wake-up call for business and nature. Hurricane Milton is increasing in strength and will make landfall in Florida in the next 24 hours. This powerful storm, which morphed into a Category 5 hurricane alarmingly quickly, has gripped the world’s attention and is set to create devastating damage and destruction. This destruction comes in many forms and extends beyond the tragic implications it is likely to have on people’s lives and homes. By looking at the hurricane’s trajectory, our analysis shows some of the business assets that are at risk along its projected path. In addition, this hurricane will also impact Key Biodiversity Areas, Protected Areas, and Red List species. The science is clear: Hurricane Milton was severely intensified by climate change. When we disrupt the balance of nature, people suffer, nature is further degraded, and business resilience is compromised. Today is a stark reminder of the unforgiving force of nature and the risks it can pose to society - as well as the businesses that operate within it. 🔍 What our map shows: Magenta lines are the project path of tropical storm force winds; shading indicates probability from 50% (lightest) to >90% (darkest). Shaded green areas represent Key Biodiversity Areas (data provided via our partner - Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT)). 🔍 Our analysis shows: Businesses ▶ Number of public companies with affected operations: >1,500 ▶ Number of affected operations sites: >23,000 ▶ Max number of affected sites for individual company: 648 ▶ Key affected sectors: Electricity Services, Natural Gas, Retail Banks, Fruit Orchards, Manufacturing, Real Estate Development Nature (via IBAT) ▶ Number of affected Key Biodiversity Areas: 26 ▶ Number of affected areas protected for nature: 772 ▶ Number of affected IUCN Red List (vulnerable) species: 83 ▶ Number of affected IUCN Red List (endangered) species: 62 ▶ Number of affected IUCN Red List (critically endangered) species: 33 #milton #sustainability #climatechange #climate #climaterisk

Exciting Internship Opportunity at GIST Impact! 🎉 We are looking for energetic and enthusiastic interns to join our team of sustainability experts for a 3-month internship, extendable based on performance. This is your chance to gain hands-on experience working with annual reports, financial KPIs, revenue segments, and ESG metrics of companies worldwide. 🏛 Locations: Powai, Mumbai & Sector 127, Noida - Onsite 😎 Role: ESG Intern (Financial KPI) How to apply ?  ➡ Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eKyJ_ipH Who can apply? ✅ Graduates in Commerce, Business Management, Business Economics, or BBA ✅ CFA/CA candidates are welcome ✅ Freshers with a strong academic background and analytical skills ✅ Passion for ESG data and sustainability metrics Responsibilities: 🔍 Analyze company financial statements, business & geographical segments 🔍 Capture and interpret key financial data such as employee count, total revenue 🔍 Exposure to ESG KPIs and industry classifications Required Skills: 📄 Strong knowledge of financial statements & reporting 🖥 Proficiency in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint 📣 Excellent communication skills 👀 Quick learner with an eye for detail Delhi/Noida/Gurgaon and Mumbai Candidates preferred. #internship #financialanalysis #analyst #dataanalysis #sustainability

Our CEO, Pavan Sukhdev, addressed the Global Nature Positive Summit 2024 audience in the plenary session in Sydney today. The inaugural Summit will run from 8 - 10 October and aims to: ⬆ Drive investment in nature ⚙ Implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework 💪 Strengthen collaboration across sectors 🌳 Build nature-based economic systems 🇦🇺 Showcase Australia's leadership in biodiversity efforts 🗣 Create a platform for policy discussions to protect ecosystems and address biodiversity loss “The most urgent Nature Positive actions needed today are voluntary biodiversity footprint-reducing and mitigating actions by companies, and agreeing a consensus framework and methods to measure these footprints and reductions. I’m pleased that Australia’s Nature Positive Plan supports both." - Pavan Sukhdev, CEO GIST Impact We’ll be covering the key outcomes of this event - watch this space for updates! 👀 #GlobalNaturePositiveSummit #Biodiversity #Nature

We are thrilled to announce that we have expanded our partnership with the Value Balancing Alliance to become their CSRD impact accounting partner. Since 2019, the Value Balancing Alliance (VBA) has been working towards a standardised methodology for impact accounting. Alongside the 'Big 4' (KPMG, Deloitte, EY and PwC), VBA member companies have been developing draft methodologies and testing their application each year. As one of VBA's key partners, GIST Impact will provide impact statements and CSRD double materiality assessments to VBA member companies. Together, we will offer VBA members access to: 🔍 Impact Statements based on company sustainability reports 📊 CSRD Double Materiality Assessments, benchmarking against industry peers 🌿 Deep Dive into Impact across company value chains, assets, and units 💼 Access to ready-to-use impact accounts, industry peer data, sector benchmarks, and more! As a special benefit, new and existing VBA members can request free sample data via GIST Impact's data portal, including: ✅ An impact statement for the company and a peer for comparison ✅ A snippet of a double materiality assessment based on the company’s latest sustainability report VBA member companies are entitled to exclusive discounts for this suite of data and solutions, alongside ongoing support from the VBA. Join us on this journey to embed sustainability at the heart of your business, meet evolving regulatory standards, and foster more impactful, responsible practices across industries. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eDJXHsFV #ValueBalancingAlliance #GISTImpact #ImpactAccounting #Sustainability #CSRD #DoubleMateriality #ESG #ValueChain #SustainableBusiness #Partnerships Anglo American BASF Bayer BMW Group BNP Paribas Bosch CaixaBank CSS Deutsche Bank DHL Dräger Effectual Capital GSK Holcim Kering KIRCHHOFF Automotive L'Oréal Michelin Mitsubishi Corporation Novartis Pure Storage Roche SABIC Sana Kliniken SAP Schaeffler SK Group UBS Volkswagen Group ZF Group

"How deep is our understanding of - and the focus of our systems on - recognising environmental externalities?" Yesterday, our Founder and CEO Pavan Sukhdev had the honour and privilege of chairing a panel discussion at the The Royal Society on the topic of Financial Risk. Held as part a broader two day event titled "How does ecological risk relate to commercial risk?" and chaired by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, the panel produced some startling insights on the importance of taking nature into account as part of wider financial decision-making processes. Here are the key takeaways: 🏛 Nature-related risk is systemic and fundamental: "the most important thing... is that this makes it into our traditional way of thinking about risk. Not only having a sustainability office, but really having it ingrained into the core operations of a financial institution." Marc Reinke (Head of the Sustainable Finance Office, DNB) 📉 Financial institutions are exposed to large amounts of unseen risks: "we did a piece of work with HSBC, understanding the impact of a very realistic scenario of water stress on their portfolio of 50 South East Asian heavy industry corporates. We saw that the majority of that portfolio went from investment grade to non-investment grade as a result of that scenario." Dr Nina Seega (Director, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)) 🌪 Improved data sharing and education is critical to keep insurance viable: "For me, the biggest thing is education of government and policy holders. As insurers, we hold a lot of data... and we want to share that data to make an impact. Otherwise, this is just going to get worse... the devastation is real." Waseem Malik (Chief Claims Officer, Aviva) Watch the full streams of yesterday's and today's events here: https://lnkd.in/ekBREk6f Please visit our website to find out more how financial institutions and corporates can mitigate their risks and integrate nature-based decision-making into their processes: https://lnkd.in/evaZcafH #sustainability #biodiversity #nature #externalities #naturepositive #sustainablefinance #NGFS #GreeningFinance