Technological innovations will be key to ensuring 'early adopter' TNFD reporting companies provide useful nature-related information.

2024 Conference Sponorship

Reflections on 2023 Future of ESG Data Conference

Listen to the thoughts of a leading European climate VC who are targeting a gigatonne impact in emissions reductions through investing in early stage climate startups and cutting edge innovations within the Energy, carbon removal, insurance, food systems and other sectors.

Materiality was again in the spotlight recently with launch of IFRS sustainability disclosure standards S1 & S2. Whilst the standards were generally welcomed as a significant step in creating a global baseline for corporate sustainability disclosures grounded in the best practices of accounting standards it was seen as controversial in some quarters. In a large part this was due to its approach to dealing with materiality and more specifically ‘double materiality’ — something largely avoided in the standards according to critics. Proponents highlight the mantra that “what can be measured can be managed” when suggesting that focusing on single materiality / materiality should be the priority for disclosing organisations and is thus the focus of these standards. Double materiality encompasses not just sustainability risks which impact a company’s financial performance but the degree to which that company’s products and activities impact the wider world — a philosophy more adopted in European standards such as in the work of EFRAG.

Trase data estimates where a trader (and, by proxy, downstream companies that are customers of that trader) has significant exposure to a biome that is on a financial institutions’ exclusion list, subject to specific bank policy requirements (such as certification), or more broadly deemed an environmentally ‘sensitive’ location requiring more detailed screening.

Neural Alpha is delighted to announce that it has joined companies such as Aviva, TSB and Schroders Personal Wealth, in signing up to the Good Business Charter, an accreditation that raises the bar on business practices for employees, tax, the environment, customers and suppliers.

ESG Investing Awards Winners & Finalists 2023

In October 2018, we launched the pilot Green FinTech Challenge to support innovation and growth in the green finance sector as part of the Government’s Green Great Britain Week.

Some of the world's biggest investors have been linked to deforestation of crucial habitats like the Amazon Rainforest. Can they use their financial might to stop deforestation in its tracks?

This nightmare can often seem a million miles away, but its implications for us all will be profound

Join us for an exciting webinar where we explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and human rights compliance.

In this webinar, Ben Levett discusses how to apply deforestation due diligence guidance and how Trase Finance data products can power commodity trader assessments.

In this webinar hosted by ISKO, Neural Alpha founder James Phare and ESG Researcher Dan Burke-Ward discuss the role of taxonomies in sustainable finance and how the Neural Alpha product suite centralises taxonomies for interoperability and reporting and the connection of various data types.

In this webinar, Ben Levett discusses why location-specific analysis is so important for proper deforestation due diligence and outlines how Trase Finance can help conduct TNFD LEAP-FI style assessments of commodity traders.

As part of UKSIF's Good Money Week, Planet Tracker and Trase Finance come together to explore what actions investors and lenders can take to mitigate the risk of financing deforestation, with the case study of the Gran Chaco.

In this webinar Neural Alpha CEO James Phare joined partners OpenCorporates to discuss the importance of open company data in due diligence and other requirements.

Employing our strong data engineering and data integration capabilities, Neural Alpha helped to deliver the Orbitas platform and landmark report on the climate transition risks of agriculture.

Working with a number of global partners, Neural Alpha led the development and data engineering on the novel supply chain mapping behind the inaugural Plastic Waste Makers Index.

Utilising our expertise in knowledge graphs, supply chains and sustainability, Neural Alpha was the obvious choice to help Refinitiv explore proof of concept applications of their Big Open Linked Data (BOLD) platform to ESG use-cases

Showcasing our ability to deliver sophisticated backend infrastructures, Neural Alpha delivered the database, ETLs and API powering Lucida’s advanced supply chain and deforestation analysis.

Discover how Neural Alpha, in partnership with Vivid Economics (McKinsey) and Natural History Museum (NHM) have developed a cutting-edge geospatial dataset. This transformative resource connects companies to physical assets, enabling rapid analysis of ESG risks like biodiversity intactness.

RC Physical Assets provides a global dataset that links physical assets to companies, enabling professionals to analyse environmental risks, biodiversity impacts, and evidence compliance with ESG regulations. The solution supports portfolio and asset-level ESG risk analysis using spatial data overlays and contextual information, benefiting various industries and regulatory requirements.