Iceberg Data Lab - CBF – Corporate Biodiversity Footprint
Data category
Environmental dataThe data offers solutions for:
- Environmental impact analysis and insight
- Investment decisions and portfolio insight
- Nature-based information
- Nature-based information: Biodiversity
- Nature-based information: Land use
- Nature-based information: Water
- Reporting: Impact
- Reporting: TNFD
- Art 29
Who are the data users?
- Corporates
- Financial institutions
- Investors
Brief description of the data offering
The Corporate Biodiversity Footprint is a set of data modelling the biodiversity impact of issuers. It allows financial institutions (banks, asset managers, asset owners, etc.) to calculate the biodiversity footprint of their portfolios and to integrate this data into their decision-making processes. IDL models the impact of corporates (or sovereigns and real assets) through a bottom-up approach, distinguishing issuers based on the impact of their product flows throughout the value chain (including Scope 3 upstream and downstream).
The CBF is expressed using Mean Species Abundance (MSA), a biodiversity metric measuring the impact of economic activities and related pressures on species abundance in an ecosystem compared to its pristine state (equivalent artificialisation).
The MSA is endorsed by the international scientific community and used in academic studies measuring the state of biodiversity. It allows a science-based model of the pressures’ impact.
The MSA models the impact of corporates’ activity, enabling an appraisal at a portfolio level, fit for the needs of large financial institutions, going beyond datapoints relevant only for project-level reviews. The MSA is easy to understand to represent in a concrete manner the impact of a portfolio on Biodiversity (equivalent surface artificialised by year).
Where and how do you source your data?
IDL uses only public information to source data. Company information is updated once a year.
What is the cost for your data offering?
Pricing depends on coverage requirements, and can be provided upon request at [email protected]