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Emissions Data Disclosures Jump, MSCI Report Says
More companies are reporting their greenhouse gas data – including Scope 3 emissions – to investors and regulators, according to a report that suggests yawning gaps in corporate ESG records may be closing. Scope 3 data, which tracks the emissions of businesses within corporate supply and distribution chains, is now reported fully or in part…
Colmore Integrates Dasseti Sustainability Tech into PE Data Portal
Post-investment services firm Colmore is the latest company to engage sustainability software provider Dasseti in private markets data processes. The unit of British alternative assets business Preqin coordinates data gathering and other services for limited partners (LPs) and allocators – which largely comprise financial institutional investors. It has integrated Dasseti Collect into its suite of…
New Bloomberg Indices Provide Sovereign Bond Climate-Tilted Benchmarks
Investors seeking to integrate measures of climate transition risk into the portfolio management process **can now benchmark against countries’ climate preparedness via a new set of Bloomberg indices. The Bloomberg Government Climate Tilted Bond Index family integrates carbon-reduction performance and other factors into sovereign bond indices. They are built with Bloomberg’s proprietary Government Climate Scores, which…
$10m Cash Injection Adds Fuel to IDL Growth
Iceberg Data Lab’s (IDL) meteoric growth has been given another boost. The Paris-based ESG data start-up last week received a US$10 million cash injection in a series A funding round. The company, which uses artificial intelligence to power a data model that founder Matthieu Maurin boasts has “no data gaps”, received backing from investors including…
GRESB Launches Real Estate Tool to Benchmark Individual Buildings
A new suite of tools has been launched to help investors and fund managers assess the sustainability of real estate assets in their portfolios. REAL Benchmarks, one of several new services created by real estate ESG-data provider GRESB, enables the identification of individual buildings with poor performance compared with peers to encourage owners to begin…
Vendor Strategy: Impact Cubed Has a 3D Vision for ESG
The novelty of the ESG data space has inspired many innovations to help financial institutions build their sustainability investment and risk programmes. Most have sought to fill gaps in the nascent data market. Impact Cubed, however, found its impetus in a very different experience: disenchantment with what was already on offer. The investment solutions company was…
Surveys Highlight Two Sides of ESG Market Evolution
Regulatory demands are expected to help boost spending on ESG data to a record this year but a significant part of the institutional space remains concerned that those same rules will limit the choice of sustainable investments. Two recent surveys suggest that investors continue to champion sustainable markets. One, by management consultancy Opimas estimates that…
ESG Data &Tech Summit London 2024 to Shine Light on Changing Industry
What a difference a year makes. As A-Team Group prepares for its third annual ESG Data and Tech Summit London in May, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment in the evolution of sustainable market data. In March 2022, we were anticipating momentous change. After years of growth in sustainable markets, participants were braced for a slew…
SEC Approves Watered-Down Climate Reporting Rules
American listed companies will not have to report on their Scope 3 emissions in rules that will, however, require them for the first time to disclose other climate data. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday approved measures that would bind corporates into presenting data on the climate risks they face, their plans to…
One Year in, Wolters Kluwer Sees New ESG Solution Grow
Last February, Wolters Kluwer created a separate ESG-focused division within its global software solutions and services business. The Corporate Performance and ESG (CP and ESG) division brought together four existing software units to offer the company’s global banking clients integrated financial, operational, and ESG performance management and reporting solutions. Presided over by Karen Abramson, former…