The Future of ESG Data EMEA

13 October 2025

Platinum sponsors

BlackRock Aladdin—inclusive of the Aladdin, eFront®, and Aladdin Wealth™ platforms—empowers institutional investors to make more informed decisions by providing a common data language across the whole portfolio. Used by asset managers and owners including banks, financial institutions, pensions, corporations, insurers, and wealth managers, our technology enables clients to manage the entire process from building portfolios and managing performance to operations and accounting. With Preqin, our integrated tech and data solutions support clients across the pre- and post-investment cycles. Complemented by our interconnected ecosystem of partners, BlackRock Aladdin helps firms stay agile as market dynamics and client demands evolve.

For more information, please visit www.blackrock.com/aladdin

Gold sponsors

ISS STOXX 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. It serves as a premier source of independent corporate governance, sustainability, cyber risk, and fund intelligence research and data. Its 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 3,800 professionals operating across global locations in 20 countries. Its approximately 5,000 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.
https://www.iss-stoxx.com/

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 18 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, visit https://www.carbon4finance.com/

CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world's only independent environmental disclosure system. As the founder of environmental reporting, we believe in transparency and the power of data to drive change. Partnering with leaders in enterprise, capital, policy and science, we surface the information needed to enable Earth-positive decisions. We helped more than 24,800 companies and almost 1,000 cities, states and regions disclose their environmental impacts in 2024. Financial institutions with more than a quarter of the world's institutional assets use CDP data to help inform investment and lending decisions. Aligned with the ISSB's climate standard, IFRS S2, as its foundational baseline, CDP integrates best practice reporting standards and frameworks in one place. Our team is truly global, united by our shared desire to build a world where people, planet and profit are truly balanced. Visit CDP.net  or follow us @CDP to find out more.

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

GIST Impact is a market-leading sustainability data and analytics provider. We help companies and investors measure, value and manage their environmental and social impacts, risks and opportunities. Powered by a global team of experts, GIST Impact delivers precise, location-specific data covering over 18,500 companies, and is the chosen partner for some of the world’s largest corporations and investors representing over $8 trillion in assets under management.

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider, playing a vital social and economic role in the world's financial system.

With our open approach, trusted expertise and global scale, we enable the sustainable growth and stability of our customers and their communities. We are dedicated partners with extensive experience, deep knowledge and a worldwide presence in data and analytics; indices; capital formation; and trade execution, clearing and risk management across multiple asset classes.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 65 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ over 26,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

For more information, please visit https://www.londonstockexchange.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/

Bronze sponsors

Headquartered in Paris, with more than 160 employees in Paris, Lyon, Madrid, Granada and Hanover, EthiFinance is a leading European player in sustainable finance, with more than twenty years’ experience. The company supports more than 400 clients through its credit and ESG rating, research and advisory services, helping them to meet the challenges of an ever-changing economic, financial and regulatory environment. True to its values of independence, excellence, and responsibility, EthiFinance takes a distinctive European approach, combining analytical rigor with a commitment to enhancing corporate performance and resilience.

For more information, please visit www.ethifinance.com

Fathom is a global leader in flood and climate risk intelligence, giving risk management professionals the most scientifically robust tools and intelligence for understanding the climate's impact on water risk. Its team of scientists develop catastrophe models and comprehensive mapping and geospatial data that make a real-world difference to customers and communities worldwide.

For more information please visit https://www.fathom.global/

Media partner

IIGCC is an investor-led membership organisation focused on bringing the investment community together to navigate the risks and opportunities of the transition and support progress towards a net zero and climate resilient future.