Trase Finance – a collaboration between fintech company Neural Alpha, international non-profit research and policy organisation the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and NGO Global Canopy – seeks to identify second-order environmental impacts in supply chains, enabling transparency and shedding light on the hidden risks and opportunities that can materially influence financial and non-financial performance.

Recently we decided to take a brief look at Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) sustainability disclosures using our AI platform Responsible Capital. Tesla are renowned under the leadership of Elon Musk for being unafraid to be different and not follow the crowd and so we wanted to see how well our AI could perform extracting key metrics from PDF format sustainability reports for quantitative comparisons over a period of a few years.

James Phare, CEO of Neural Alpha, describes how AI can be used to understand the system-level risks arising from the UN’s Global Biodiversity Framework.