Best practice ESG data management to mitigate risk and capitalise on ESG and sustainability investing

This briefing will explore the impact of the regulatory environment on, and current trends and best practice approaches in, ESG data management.

As firms continue to navigate the complex regulatory landscape, with major new sustainability reporting directives coming into play, geopolitical forces and the Trump administration raise interesting questions for the future of ESG and sustainability investing.

Alongside this, a lack of standardised, accurate and reliable data continues to plague data quality with fragmented data and competing frameworks creating challenges for regulatory compliance and investment insight.

Unstructured and raw data have become crucial and as volumes have grown deployment of cloud-based technologies and infrastructures to enable scalability and a move away from manual processes have become must-have capabilities to maintain a competitive edge.

New and exciting opportunities are emerging from technologies such as AI, GenAI and LLMs, which are being deployed to add value to all parts of the ESG data management pipeline, particularly in harnessing the value of unstructured data.

Join us to gain practical insights into the latest ESG regulatory trends and best practices for ESG data management and technology deployment.

2025 Topics will include:

• Navigating the ESG and sustainability regulatory and litigation landscape with a focus on:
  – the future of the regulatory landscape and impact of geopolitics
  – impact of UK and EU regimes in flux on current regulations
  – transition finance
  – transition planning
  – greenwashing
• Best approaches for ESG data sourcing and management
• How to improve ESG data quality
• How to manage the complexity of unstructured data and its ongoing incorporation into financial institutions across the technology stack
• The role of cloud-based technologies and infrastructures to enable agility and scalability
• Opportunities and challenges for harnessing ESG data with AI and ML
• Unlocking ESG data from private markets
• Proxy voting and stewardship: A new era of transparency