ESG Data Guide 2025

Iceberg Data Lab - Dependency scores

Data category

Environmental data

The 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: TNFD

Who are the data users?

  • Corporates
  • Financial institutions
  • Investors

Brief description of the data offering

The Dependency score is the mean dependency across all 26 ecosystem services weighted by sector revenues. It refers to direct dependencies (Scope 1 only). IDL provides separate data points for the total mean dependency, provisioning dependency, regulating dependency, and cultural dependency.

Cultural Services:

Non-physical benefits that people obtain from ecosystems.

Provisioning Services:

Tangible resources or goods that people obtain from ecosystems.

Regulating Services:

Natural phenomena moderating natural cycles.

IDL also offers another data point embedded into the dependency score called The Dependency at Risk; which is the percentage of the total revenues that are exposed to a High or Very High dependency.

Where and how do you source your data?

Company-reported data and sustainability reports, when available and reliable. If company data is not available or incomplete, IDL models the data using sector, commodity, and geography-specific parameters.⁠⁠​
 
Open-source databases provided by governments, central banks, and scientific organizations.⁠⁠​
 
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) databases and financial/environmental datasets for product-level impacts.⁠⁠​
 
Physical flows and input-output models (such as their proprietary Wunderpus model) to estimate emissions through the entire value chain, covering scopes 1, 2, and 3 for high granularity and sector comparability.⁠⁠⁠⁠​
 
Independent scientific studies and internationally recognized frameworks (e.g., IPCC, IEA, SBTi, TNFD, PBAF) for methodologies and benchmark data.⁠

What is the cost for your data offering?

Pricing depends on coverage requirements, and can be provided upon request at [email protected]

Contacts

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