Sustainability Data EMEA 2024

17 October 2024, 8:45 AM BST

Platinum sponsors

ISS STOXX GmbH, through its group companies, is a leading provider of comprehensive and data-centric research and technology solutions that help capital market participants identify investment opportunities, detect qualitative and quantitative portfolio company risks, and meet evolving regulatory requirements. With roots dating back to 1985, we today deliver world-class benchmark and custom indices across asset classes and geographies and serve as a premier source of independent corporate governance, sustainability, cyber risk, and fund intelligence research, data, and related offerings. Our products and services give clients the scale and leverage they need to grow their business more effectively and efficiently. ISS STOXX, which is majority owned by Deutsche Börse Group, is comprised of more than 3,400 professionals operating across 33 global locations in 19 countries. Its approximately 6,400 clients include many of the world's leading institutional investors who turn to ISS STOXX for its objective and varied offerings, as well as companies focused on ESG, cyber, and governance risk mitigation as a shareholder value enhancing measure. Clients rely on ISS STOXX's expertise to help them make informed decisions to benefit their stakeholders.

For more information, visit www.iss-stoxx.com

Gold sponsors

GRESB is an industry-led organization committed to driving the financial market towards sustainability by offering standardized and validated ESG data. It's recognized as a global benchmark for real estate and infrastructure investments, supporting 150 institutional and financial investors in their decision-making processes. GRESB's annual assessments and benchmarks encompass over 2,000 real estate portfolios, more than 170 infrastructure funds, and around 700 infrastructure assets. Through its recent integration with Asset Impact, GRESB reinforces its commitment to a net-zero global economy. Asset Impact expands GRESB's product suite with specialized climate data and analytics, over 330,000 physical assets across the most emissions-intensive sectors are linked to corporate ownership trees, aiding financial institutions to take decisive climate action in the way they steer their investments.

For more information, visit www.gresb.com/nl-en

Preqin, the Home of Alternatives™, empowers financial professionals who invest in or allocate to alternatives with essential data and insight. We support over 200,000 clients with private markets and hedge fund intelligence, including ESG data through our ESG Solutions – the alternatives industry's most comprehensive ESG data and analytics. Leveraging our strong industry relationships and trust built over 20 years, we bring you actionable insights so you can make data-driven sustainable investing decisions with confidence.

For more information visit www.preqin.com.

S&P Global Sustainable1 matches customers with the sustainability products, insights and solutions from across S&P Global's divisions to help meet their unique needs. Our comprehensive coverage across global markets combined with in-depth sustainability intelligence provides financial institutions, corporations and governments with expansive insight on business risk, opportunity, and impact as we work towards a sustainable future.

For more information, please visit www.spglobal.com/sustainable1

Sustainable Fitch provides insights, tools and data that have been designed and built entirely and exclusively to help bring clarity to the ESG financial community. Our focus is, and will always be, on providing transparent, objective and substantive data that enables confidence in decision-making. To best serve our clients and partners, Fitch realized that it would be necessary to build an entirely new product suite of objective ESG data and analysis, focusing on consistency, comparability, coverage and granularity. Leaning on our expertise in best-in-class analytics and research, and reputation for transparency and integrity, our team of leading ESG experts came together to bring the financial community a robust and comprehensive ESG data and analysis solution. Powered by the human insight that has differentiated Fitch for over 100 years, Sustainable Fitch brings experience and heritage to help the financial community make smarter decisions, using the best ESG information available.

For more information, visit www.sustainablefitch.com

Silver sponsors

Carbon4 Finance is an innovative leader in methodologies and data on climate and biodiversity, part of the Carbone 4 Group. The Carbone 4 group was founded 17 years ago by Alain Grandjean, an expert economist in sustainable finance and Jean-Marc Jancovici, an expert in climate and energy, being at the origin of the first carbon footprint methodology in 2000 which inspired the GHG Protocol. Carbon4 Finance provides comprehensive environmental data solutions for financial actors, covering climate transition risks, physical risks, as well as impacts and dependencies related to biodiversity. With scientific methodologies, Carbon4 Finance enables the measurement of climate and biodiversity footprints of portfolios, assesses their alignment with a 2°C scenario, and helps bypass greenwashing practices. Carbon4 Finance supports asset managers (HSBC AM, Amundi, Man Group), asset owners (MAIF, BNPP Cardif), banks (BPCE), as well as index providers (Euronext, SGX). Carbon4 Finance is also the official supplier of climate data to the Eurosystem central banks.

For more information, please visit https://www.carbon4finance.com/

Clarity AI is the leading sustainability tech company, leveraging advanced technology and AI to provide data-driven environmental and social insights to investors, corporates, governments, and consumers. Through powerful, scalable AI at the core, Clarity AI addresses end-to-end use cases related to investing, corporate research, benchmarking, regulatory reporting, retail banking, and e-commerce. Clarity AI's impact extends across a direct network of investors managing over $50 trillion in assets, including firms like Invesco, Nordea, Lazard Asset Management, and Santander, and thousands of end users through integrations into the existing workflows in selected investment platforms, such as Aladdin by BlackRock, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), BNP Paribas, Caceis, or SimCorp. Our offices are located in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

For more information, visit clarity.ai

EthiFinance is an independent European rating, research and advisory group, fully committed to Sustainable Finance. Our group provides investors, banks, insurances, corporates and organisations of all sizes with impactful analysis and solutions to the challenges of financing as well as environmental and societal transformation.

EthiFinance provides its services to a wide range of leading international clients under the brands EthiFinance (ESG assessments and credit ratings), Spread Research (independent credit research) and imug rating (ESG assessments).  

Our governance and shareholding structure matches our ambition to become the leading European financial and non-financial rating agency.

EthiFinance is registered with the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and recognized by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and the European Banking Authority (EBA).

EthiFinance is present in 3 European countries, with 5 offices in France, Germany and Spain and 160 employees, serving over 350 clients throughout Europe.

www.ethifinance.com

Founded in 2015, Iceberg Data Lab ("IDL") is an independent and innovative green fintech company providing quality, science-based environmental data solutions for financial institutions, enabling clients to measure the impact of their investments and accelerate their sustainable transition journeys. Leveraging AI and Big Data, IDL's extensive suite of products measure and monitor crucial metrics such as the carbon and biodiversity footprints of portfolio companies, across all sectors and all geographies, to provide a holistic life cycle analysis (including Scope 1, 2 and 3) of their environmental impact. IDL's diverse dataset covers over 2,300 different products across and services, supporting clients in their decision-making processes, including driving investment and risk management strategies, building indexes and funds, and developing Environmental Impact Reporting.

For more information, please visit www.icebergdatalab.com.

Founded in 2018, WeeFin is an impact fintech company that provides ESG solutions to financial institutions. Based on the core belief that sustainability should be at the heart of every investment decision, we developed the first SaaS technology 100% dedicated to sustainable finance. This enables financial institutions to industrialize and centralize their ESG processes: from ESG data collection to regulatory reporting, including bespoke ESG calculations based on a company's unique requirements. Their innovative technology and ESG expertise have made them a leader in sustainable finance. By the end of 2023, WeeFin raised an additional €7M from investors and was awarded the Fintech of the Year in France.

For more information, please visit https://www.weefin.co/