ClimateAligned

ClimateAligned is heading back to Europe next week, this time to Paris 🇫🇷 & Amsterdam 🇳🇱. Aleksi & Natasha are representing ClimateAligned for an action packed week in Paris for customer meetings & in Amsterdam for the Sustainable Investing Summit hosted by Morningstar Sustainalytics. If you are around, let's chat how to use AI to buy and sell more #greenbonds! 📗

🔍 In our series highlighting our engineering team, Steffan, our Senior Software Engineer, answers a key question: How do we ensure high-quality, well-organised data at scale? There's a fundamental challenge in making sense of unstructured, inconsistent data while maintaining quality. Some of the most complex design decisions come from balancing technical solutions with deep domain understanding. When building robust data systems, my approach focuses on three key principles: 1. We design flexible data models that align closely with our product direction, avoiding premature specialization. This keeps us agile as our company evolves—crucial in the startup space where our focus can shift month-to-month. 2. Human oversight remains critical. Just like you wouldn't eat M&Ms if 1 in 20 was filled with dirt, we ensure all significant external data points (AI-generated or not) get human verification. Quality can't be compromised. 3. We strategically leverage LLMs to accelerate our processes. With today's affordable AI solutions, we can rapidly extract metadata, parallelise manual tasks, and review data—all while maintaining quality standards. My job is to build systems that turn these principles into reality, transforming complex data challenges into sustainable solutions. The result? Less technical debt, more value generation—what I call collecting Tech Rent! 💷

It’s great they’ve reached their targets, but do you actually need to read all 283 pages to figure that out? 😭 Jokes aside — with ClimateAligned you can access sustainable bond issuers’ data instantly. What used to take hours of an analyst's time, takes seconds. From issuer-level sustainability data to project impact details, we’ve got it all. Skip the tedious parts and get straight to the good stuff! #ClimateAligned #sustainablefinance #greenbonds

🌍 COP16, Biodiversity, and Green Bonds: Unlocking $10 Billion for Nature 🌍 To date in 2024, $10b in #greenbonds have been allocated towards projects focused on biodiversity & #NBS. As COP16 unfolds in Cali, biodiversity takes centre stage in global discussions & the role of thematic finance - especially green bonds -is more crucial than ever. ClimateAligned's latest data shows green bonds have allocated over $10 billion towards biodiversity conservation and nature-based solutions this year alone. 🔍How are we identifying these projects? ClimateAligned has comprehensive coverage of the entire green bond market, including all related documentation e.g. frameworks, SPO & post issuance reporting. Krista and Natasha used our AI platform to identify bonds allocating proceeds to biodiversity and nature-related projects, including - REDD projects, - sustainable forestry - afforestation - land remediation, -marine reserves & other NBS All in line with the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) Taxonomy. 💡 What kinds of projects are receiving funding? Here are a few standout examples making an impact: Eastman's sustainable water management emphasises protecting coastal and marine ecosystems. Tornator Oyj is ensuring responsible land management with investments in FSC and PEFC certified forestry. Anglian Water Services is investing directly into restoration, remediation and the conservation of habitats and ecosystems to enhance biodiversity in their region. With nature at the heart of the global conversation, it’s inspiring to see how green bonds are helping drive these critical efforts.

🚨 5 DAYS TO GO! 🚨 Big news: ClimateAligned is taking Hong Kong by storm! 🌏✨ Our CCO Krista is packing her bags to showcase how we are revolutionising green finance. Want to see how banks, asset managers and service providers are using our platform to transform their sustainability game? 📍 Where: AsiaWorld-Expo, Hong Kong 📅 When: October 29, 2024 (Just 5 days away!) Are you going to be there? Don't miss your chance to connect with us and discover why major financial players are choosing ClimateAligned to power their sustainable finance initiatives! Drop a 👋 in the comments if you'll be attending - we'd love to meet you! 

The Impact Disclosure Guidance is finally here! 🌍 Sustainable finance is growing ($41T in ESG assets!), but we're still facing a $4 trillion annual financing gap in emerging markets and developing economies to achieve the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. The solution? As part of the Impact Disclosure Taskforce, we are pleased to announce the publication of the final Impact Disclosure Guidance. This voluntary guidance is designed to assist corporate entities and sovereigns in measuring and disclosing their efforts to bridge significant gaps in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This voluntary framework focuses on: • Intentionality in impact goals • Measurable outcomes • Ambitious targets • Priority-driven solutions Why it matters: By adopting standardised impact disclosure, organisations can unlock sustainable capital and drive real change where it's needed most. Together, we can transform how capital flows to sustainable development. Ready to make an impact? 👉 Find the full publication on the website of ICMA - International Capital Market Association here: https://lnkd.in/gCgKYc28

Great vibes at team dinner last night! 💙 It’s been busy time at ClimateAligned, as we’ve been focused on developing our product and connecting with our customers. Taking a break over some delicious Italian food gave us the chance to reflect on recent achievements and look ahead to the exciting months to come. Looking forward to all that’s ahead! Aleksi Tukiainen Krista Tukiainen Friederike Tietz Prashant Lonikar Lewis Deane Leo Browning Steffan Safey Natasha S.

What can the ClimateAligned platform do on impact reporting? Soon the question will be ‘What can’t it do?’ CCO Krista with the latest in making analyst’s lives easier. https://lnkd.in/gzfRNBhy #climatealigned #AI #sustainablebonds

🔎 In our series highlighting our engineering and data team, Leo, our Senior ML Engineer, answers a key question: How do we balance automation with human oversight to ensure quality control? There's a core tension between the expertise and trust of an analyst and the speed and scale that automation provides. With AI in the mix, maintaining the quality of results—both qualitatively and quantitatively—is crucial as models evolve. When assessing sustainable bonds and issuers, my job is to build systems to integrate analyst expertise into AI-powered assessments, ensuring high quality data at market scale. To do this: 1. We manually check the AI's first pass of new bond and issuer assessment methodologies, reducing checking time from weeks to just hours compared to traditional document reading. 2. Using our fully manually checked data, the system automatically highlights discrepancies and reduces iteration time from hours to minutes. Once we are happy with performance, we run this system at scale across market data. 3. Once these assessments are generated, they become directly available to product users, reducing their time to analyse bonds and issuers from hours to seconds. My job is to build this software, accelerating our analysts' ability to incorporate their insights into our AI system and enabling scalable assessments of all issuers and sustainable bonds in the market. #ClimateAligned #sustainablebonds #AI

This just in — Instant, customisable green bond market overview reports 🔥 Making a report about green bond practices has never been easier. With ClimateAligned’s platform, what once took weeks now takes seconds. You can filter bonds by: 🌎 Region 💰 Issuance amount 📋 Financed project types … and much more. Export data that’s tailored to your needs, such as: ✅ Post-issuance practices 🤝 SPO provider … and more. Curious? Watch our demo below, where our analyst pulls data on Scandinavian green bonds between $100M and $500M. Ready to supercharge your market research? Let’s chat.