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“Incorporating impact measurement and valuation in the CSRD double materiality assessment is crucial, but the process can be complex and time-consuming when done manually.” “Automation through software can streamline this effort and expedite compliance with CSRD/ESRS reporting requirements.” “Companies can use quantitative materiality scores as a solid starting point for assessments, speeding up the identification, validation, and analysis of key material topics, impacts, risks, and opportunities.” Those are not our words - this is market-leading insight from Verdantix, a specialist sustainability research and advisory firm. And we completely agree - our automated, quantitative and science-backed double materiality scores accelerate your journey towards CSRD compliance in five easy steps: ✅ Refine your stakeholder engagement with off-the-shelf, science-backed materiality data across 14,500+ companies and 50+ sectors at asset-level granularity. ✅ Assess and fill data gaps at scale with market-leading ML-driven estimations. ✅ Conduct efficient IRO analysis by drilling down to source data and documentation while generating compelling insights via sector and peer benchmarking. ✅ Approach an audit with confidence thanks to our fully traceable data and transparent methodology. ✅ Get ready to report by leveraging our granular, integration-ready analytics and insights. Find out more on our website - where you can download the methodology powering our investor-grade scores. https://lnkd.in/dEPb4-cC #csrd #doublemateriality #impactmeasurement

We are thrilled to announce that our CEO and Founder, Pavan Sukhdev, has been honoured with the 2024 EAERE European Practitioner Achievement Award in Applying Environmental Economics! This prestigious award recognises practitioners who have made significant contributions in applying economic ideas to policy or business, with a focus on Europe. Pavan’s pioneering work in illuminating and quantifying the economic value of our natural environment has been unanimously and enthusiastically endorsed by the Association’s Council. Pavan thanked his 500+ TEEB collaborators in his acceptance speech and was proud to join the ranks of previous recipients such as Christiana Figueres, Laurence Tubiana, Klaus Töpfer and Jos Delbeke. Congratulations, Pavan! Your dedication and impact inspire us all at GIST Impact and beyond. #EnvironmentalEconomics #Sustainability #EAERE2024

To close the first week in July, we are incredibly proud to launch our inaugural Nature Positive Economy Pulse Check, created using data from GIST Impact. 🌳   We needn't say much more as Alexandre, our Impact Investment Specialist introduces it perfectly. 📣 You can find the report via the link below:  https://lnkd.in/ebS5vnMz   If, after you've read it, you'd like to know more, then get in touch - we'd love to hear from you. 📱 #impactinvesting #naturepositive

🌍💼We are thrilled to share our experience at Reset Connect London (25-26 June), the largest flagship event of London Climate Action Week! Our team had the pleasure of engaging with leaders and innovators across the financial services, consulting, and corporate landscapes. ✨ Booth Highlights: Our booth was buzzing with activity over both days! It was great to see interest in our latest solutions - including Impact Valuation, Biodiversity Assessment, our CSRD Double Materiality Assessment Tool, PowerSROI, and NACE and Location-Specific Revenue Data. More broadly, it was wonderful to discuss our latest projects and exchange ideas on the evolution of sustainability - particularly around new regulations and state-of-the-art measurement systems. Great job from our booth team: Snehal Bhosale Ximena Betancourt García Aromi Salot! 🎤 Panel Insights: A big highlight was our SVP of Commercial Development, Mahima Sukhdev, participating in the panel "From ESG and Sustainability to Impact: The Future of Finance." Mahima shared her expertise on the evolving financial landscape - emphasizing the shift towards monetized impact valuation and the importance of integrating data that captures risks, dependencies and opportunities across the Natural, Human, Social and Produced Capitals. 💡 Investor Pitch: We were also delighted to be selected to participate in the Pitch & Invest Programme - where Nik Nicheperovich, our Senior Associate, delivered a compelling pitch to a wide-ranging audience. He stressed the importance of monetized impact valuation for delivering comparable, consistent, and science-based sustainability insights - and championed GIST Impact as the go-to solution for those who seek to turn sustainability from an obstacle into an opportunity. Thank you to everyone who visited our booth, attended the panel, and who continues to support our mission. Together, we are paving the way for a sustainable future! #ResetConnect #Sustainability #ESG #ImpactValuation #ClimateAction #rcl24 #netzero #SustainableBusiness #lcaw2024

📣Product Announcement! 🚀We are delighted to announce the CSRD Double Materiality Assessment Tool! With all EU Member States set to transcribe the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (#CSRD) into national law by the 6th July, GIST Impact empowers you to accelerate your CSRD journey - with intuitive and science-backed double materiality scores at company and sector levels for 14,500+ listed companies worldwide. Our CSRD Double Materiality Assessment Tool is: ✅ Objective: An EFRAG-aligned, science-backed and location-specific approach to impact assessment - built upon thousands of peer-reviewed papers and robust economic modelling. ✅ Comprehensive: Efficient, automated and scalable quantitative double materiality assessment across 14,500+ listed companies - with market-leading machine learning estimations filling all missing disclosures and enabling assessment of private assets and individual business units. ✅ Transparent: Intuitive scores supported by accessible methodology and drill-down functionality for access to all underlying data - including monetized impact data, disclosed sustainability data, and estimated sustainability data. ✅ Investor-grade: Time-relevant, auditable, and accurate from the bottom up - our double materiality scores are as rigorous as they are intuitive, facilitating actionable insights, streamlined risk analysis and robust stakeholder engagement. More information, including a detailed methodology, is available on our website: https://lnkd.in/dEPb4-cC #CSRD #doublemateriality #dmat #sustainability #impactmateriality #materialityassessment #impact

The 2024 #EAERE European Practitioner Achievement Award in Applying Environmental Economics goes to Beatriz Yordi, Director of Climate Markets and Clean Mobility at European Commission, and Pavan Sukhdev, Founder & CEO of GIST Impact. Congratulations! 👏 More info at https://lnkd.in/dUfucBc5 #EAERE2024 #EAEREawards

If left unmitigated, nature risk could cost companies up to 26% of their net present value by 2030! I loved the “Navigating Nature Risks Across the C-Suite.” session at #GreenFin. The panel included Terryn Lawrence, Chief Sustainability Officer at Rabobank, Margaret O'Gorman, President & CEO at Wildlife Habitat Council, and Rayne van den Berg, Global Lead Partner at GIST Impact and Raviv Turner, Managing Partner at NatureX Studio, Nature Tech Collective The discussion focused on various nature-related risks, their significant impact on businesses, and how the C-Suite can prepare for regulatory developments, shifting consumer preferences, and manage nature and biodiversity risks. When I asked how banks design and implement tangible financial implications for sectors that harm nature more than others, Terryn provided an interesting answer. She explained that embedding nature risks into risk profiles is the easiest way to quantify them. However, data transparency remains a challenge for incentivizing better performers. So instead of standalone sustainable finance with separate structures and marketing plans, she advocates for finance and good business practices that must incorporate nature and biodiversity risks. Rayne shared an innovative method to incorporate nature into a balance sheet. And Raviv presented insightful case studies of systemic nature risks. For example, Pacific Gas and Electric Company's failure to properly maintain power lines led to devastating fires, resulting in 2019 bankruptcy filing due to wildfire liabilities. #GreenFin24

These are the 24 Swiss startups that received funding last week! ⬇️ It was a bustling week with over $185M invested. Two companies stole the spotlight, discover more here: https://lnkd.in/d66XHqDw Congrats to Beat, Jordi, and the Venturelab team for celebrating the 20yrs anniversary! There's also a new VC in town: Koyo Capital founded by Max Meister and Guy Giuffredi! Stay tuned! --- Financing rounds AI/ML Ex Nunc Intelligence: CHF 50k - Loan B2B SaaS GIST Impact: Undisclosed Biotech iOnctura: EUR 80M - Series B Santhera Pharmaceuticals: CHF 69M - Royalty payments + term loan ENANTIOS: CHF 1.8M Calico Biosystems: CHF 150k - Convertible loan Cleantech neustark: $69M - Growth Libattion: CHF 14M WattAnyWhere: CHF 2.2M - Seed Planeto: CHF 100k - Loan Grensol Group: CHF 40k - Convertible loan Engineering LightEye: CHF 50k - Grant Lightium: CHF 40k - Convertible loan SecondWave Photonics: CHF 40k - Convertible loan Medtech/Healthtech Circleg: CHF 1.5M - Seed Aspivix: CHF 500k - Loan Xemperia: CHF 100k - Loan HekeTiss: CHF 100k - Loan Neuria Digital Therapeutics: CHF 40k - Convertible loan Actival: CHF 40k - Convertible loan Platform Carewell: CHF 20k - Grant Optune : Undisclosed - Pre-seed Robotics Duatic AG: CHF 40k - Convertible loan Supply chain SkyCell AG: $116M - Series D — Swisspreneur Podcast Listen to Franz Bittmann, founder and CEO of ⁠namuk: We Deserve Better Kids’ Clothes - EP 412 — News - Relai 🇨🇭 wins the Swiss Crypto Award - Thomas Dübendorfer namend Business Angel of the Year in Switzerland #VentureCapital #SwissStartups

Reflections from the Reset Connect event yesterday: 🌍 'Saving the planet' is not about the planet, its about people - people need nature, nature will be just fine without people. 💯 Everyone is talking about data: data is essential - baseline data, monitoring data, how to standardise data to demonstrate impacts of investments in nature but also: its nature, its complex, the data will always be imperfect, we have to get comfortable to take action based on data we know is imperfect, learn by doing, fail fast and carry on. And (my own opinion) its nature - you can see and hear if it's happy. And also - who should 'own' the data? 🌺 ESG vs impact: ESG offers a framework to help companies measure their negative impacts on nature but that isn't the end point. Investing in activity that drives positive impact for people and nature is the critical next step - communicate about that. 🌳 Greenwashing vs greenhushing: companies are now dammed if they take action to help protect or restore nature, accused of just trying to cover up their bad behaviour, so they don't talk about their nature-focussed activity, or take fewer risks and critical funding gets lost or just dries up completely. 💰 Investing in nature is all about managing risk: existing financial mechanisms which the market already understands - like bonds - are the best way to scale quickly. But also (my opinion) partner with organisations that have integrity and already have a track record of doing the doing, to help manage the risk. 🌾 Regenerative agriculture is the revolution we need to drive systems change which can result in nature positive outcomes in food production, one of the most environmentally destructive industries on our planet. Its happening slowly, everyone needs to get on board. I was particularly inspired by Richard Manley Axelle Ducos Marguerite Delormel Mahima Sukhdev Ben Constable Maxwell - thank you for the work you are doing 🙏💚🌳🌳🌳 P.S if you're a company reading this and want to take some positive action for nature, get in touch - plenty of rainforest needs protecting right now, and at Sumatran Orangutan Society we've got tons of data showing where and why we support the communities and frontline work that we do....

📢Big News! GIST Impact Named ESG Data Provider of the Year - EMEA!🌍 We are thrilled to announce that GIST Impact has been awarded ESG Data Provider of the Year - EMEA at the Environmental Finance Sustainable Investment Awards 2024! It’s an honour to be recognised by an independent panel of over 40 investors and industry experts for our leadership in environmental and social impact measurement and metrics. This award is a true testament to the hard work, innovation, and dedication of GIST Impact’s entire team. Thank you to our amazing team, clients, and partners for all your support through the years. We’ll continue to build on this success, providing the highest quality impact data and insights to support more sustainable investment decisions! 💪📈 Read more about the award here: https://lnkd.in/e4z3qmhq Pavan Sukhdev | Sam King | Mahima Sukhdev | Anupam Ravi | Vineet Gupta  #SustainableInvestment #Impact #Data #EnvironmentalFinance #Award #Innovation #Leadership