Sustainability Data EMEA 2026

Track 1

AI and next gen technologies

Track 2

Sustainability data for private markets

Track 3

Nature and Biodiversity data

Panel: Responsible AI, data governance strategies, and the growing use of estimated data in sustainable investments

• Estimates vs. disclosures – to what extent is AI enabling investors to get more sophisticated and granular data through estimations? How can estimated data be used effectively and responsibly? For corporates, to what extent can this ease the disclosure burden?
• How to integrate AI into quantitative and qualitative data processes
• Examining AI-based tools and platforms that asset managers are developing in-house, from using AI prompts in analysis, to building monitoring and alert systems across all holdings. What lessons can be learned?
• What does a good AI governance strategy look like? How to use it smartly whilst not over-relying on it? Managing the associated risks and challenges

Morgan Williams, SI Data Engineering and Strategy, Robeco
Representative, Clarity AI

Panel: How are investors in private capital markets using ESG data? Which data is most material?

• Determining the demand for ESG overlay in private investments and what data can be used to support this
• Understanding the sustainability data challenges and uses specific to different private equity, private credit and the different asset classes
• Current practices in capturing ESG data in private markets and managing data requests from GPs to portfolio companies, and from LPs to GPs: to what extent is more standardisation needed?
• Integrating ESG data with financial datasets
• Ensuring data quality and transparency in the due diligence process and across the investment life cycle
• How can ESG Data be used to improve returns at exit?

Jochen Krippner, Director, Sustainable Investment, IFM Investors

Panel:  Transition planning and target-setting for nature and biodiversity: tools, metrics and data challenges

• Building blocks for building a biodiversity transition framework: what data and methodologies are being used, and what challenges are being faced?
• How to evidence the transition and track it over time? Best practices and lessons learned from investors and corporates
• Target-setting: what data do investors need from corporates? Where are the gaps?
• How can a future Nature Measurement Protocol help standardise methodologies for measuring nature related impacts and dependencies?

Ashley Gorst, Senior Investment Stewardship Manager/Nature Lead, Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM)
Cat Hemmingsen, Senior Biodiversity Advisor, Ørsted
Gavin Edwards, Executive Director, Nature Positive Initiative (NPI)

Presentation/fireside chat

Practical applications for geospatial data: supply chain monitoring, climate adaptation, nature and land use

Katharina Schwaiger, Deputy CIO & Head of BSI Intel, BlackRock

Private investments in infrastructure and real assets – what data is being used to boost climate resilience?

Lisa Wong, Senior Director, Private Credit, MetLife Investment Management

AI-based nature modelling: case study

Roundtable Discussions

These interactive roundtable sessions give delegates the opportunity to explore a chosen topic in greater depth. Each table will have a facilitator to guide the conversation.

Potential discussion topics include:

• Physical risk: stress testing and scenario analysis
• Standards and disclosures for natural capital investments
• Data governance and management
• Geospatial data and satellite monitoring
• Sustainability data for private markets
• Using AI data to measure nature and biodiversity risks
• Tools and metrics for measuring nature-positive outcomes
• TNFD reporting: investor and corporate perspectives
• Deforestation – data developments and challenges
• The Nature Measurement Protocol and natural capital

Data Innovation Case Studies

This dynamic session allows innovators to share emerging tools and technologies, with each presenter given 10 minutes to showcase practical case studies

Case study 1: Integrating cybersecurity data as a governance risk for real-world engagement and impact

Jason Mortimer, Head of Sustainable Investment - Fixed Income & Senior Portfolio Manager, Nomura Asset Management

CSO panel: challenges and innovations in reshaping CSRD reporting and using disclosure data as a strategic tool

• Aligning non-financial metrics (climate, nature) with financial metrics: best practices for effective collaboration between CSOs/sustainability teams and CFOs/finance teams
• Working with CTOs and technical teams to leverage data technologies such as XBRL digital tagging, AI and other emerging tools
• Reshaping CSRD reporting and ESRS compliance strategies to adapt to the Omnibus framework – how are companies finding this, what have been the challenges, and what lessons can be learned so far?
• Beyond compliance, how are corporates leveraging the strategic value of reporting data?

Panel: Supply chain resilience – emerging measurement tools and strategies

• Where are the ongoing data gaps in supply chain measurement and reporting, and where are we seeing improvements?
• Supply chain data disclosure under CSDDD - challenges and best practices
• How successfully are companies engaging with suppliers across their supply chains to collect, manage and disclose data, and how is this data being used to improve supply chain resilience?
• How are data providers working with investors and companies to get the data they need?
• How accurate and useful are geospatial and satellite technologies for measuring and strengthening supply chains?

Panel: Data for integrating climate and nature risk

• What does an integrated climate-biodiversity investment strategy look like, and what role does risk play?
• To what extent are investors currently achieving integration between climate and nature risk? What are the pitfalls and challenges?
• Combining TCFD and TNFD frameworks to identify cross-cutting risks
• What datasets and tools do investors need to support climate and nature risk integration, and how are data providers meeting these needs?
• Looking ahead: what could be the potential tipping points for accelerating climate and nature risk integration, such as regulation, technological advances, or other factors?

Ryan Allison, Climate and Nature Investment Research Lead, Standard Life

Panel: How could SFDR 2.0 transform ESG and transition data?

• What approaches are investors and asset managers exploring to prepare for SFDR 2.0?
• How is SFDR being integrated into current ESG frameworks, whilst maintaining flexibility in case requirements change?
• Navigating article categorisation and the associated data challenges
• how could the 'transition' category create a transformative shift in how investors interact with sustainability data?
• To what extent could the proposed changes increase the reliance on estimated data?
• In the drive for greater transparency, could ESG data providers potentially be held more accountable under SFDR?

Florent Deixonne, Head of ESG Regulatory Strategy, AMUNDI Asset Management
Virginie Wauquiez, CEO, Carbon4Finance

Panel: Use cases of human capital metrics in corporate disclosures and investment decisions

• Investor insights on human capital metrics from an alpha generation standpoint and integrating social data into investment decisions
• Corporate insights on current practices for measuring and reporting human capital data, and the relevance of this data to business operations and financial impact
• How can AI help to gather publicly available human capital data and build a framework for supporting investment decisions?
• Managing the challenges of gathering human rights and social data across complex supply chains
• Update from the ISSB and TISFD on emerging standards for human capital: how these could drive greater transparency and data quality?

Charlotte Lush, Human Capital Lead, ISSB
Simon Rawson, Executive Director, Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD)

Panel: Data developments in water-based investments, and practices in water-related corporate disclosures

• What is the level of demand for water exposure in portfolios, such as water tech, and how is this influencing emerging data developments? Which datasets are being used for investment decisions?
• What KPIs, metrics and data-driven initiatives are currently under development for water-related investments?
• Measuring the water risks of data centres and how these can be abated
• How are corporates disclosing their efforts in water usage efficiency, waste management systems, water reduction targets etc?
• Future potential developments in water-related investments and metrics for measuring corporate water usage habits

Roundtable Discussions

These interactive roundtable sessions give delegates the opportunity to explore a chosen topic in greater depth. Each table will have a facilitator to guide the conversation.

Potential discussion topics include:

• Scope 3 data and supply chain challenges
• Social data and human rights
• SFDR 2.0 data challenges
• Omnibus, the sustainability reporting landscape and trends in voluntary disclosure
• Evolving data challenges facing CSOs
• Data issues in blue finance and ocean-related investments
• Nature and climate risk integration
• Deforestation regulation and data implications
• Data challenges in measuring impact and stewardship engagement
• Defence data

Data Innovation Case Studies

This dynamic session allows innovators to share emerging tools and technologies, with each presenter given 10 minutes to showcase practical case studies

Case study 1: Mirova's NAT-MAM (Nature Transition Maturity Assessment Model)

Hadrien Gaudin-Hamama, Impact and ESG Specialist, Mirova