NEC Initiative - NEC metric “Net Environmental Contribution”
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: Oceans
- Nature-based information: Water
- Reporting: Impact
- Reporting: Other Regulations
- Reporting: SFDR
- Reporting: TCFD
- Reporting: TNFD
- Transition plan assessments
- Index solutions
Who are the data users?
- Corporates
- Financial institutions
- Investors
Brief description of the data offering
The NEC provides a simple answer to a complex question: to what extent does a company's activity contribute to the ecological transition? It is a holistic metric (Climate – Biodiversity – Resources), spread over a 200-scoring scale:
- From -100% for activities that are the most destructive of natural capital
- To +100% for activities that are the least impactful
- With 0%, corresponding to the current global average for each activity analysed
It is based on a lifecycle analysis approach, and provides data for all economic sectors, enabling cross-sectorial analysis.
It is applicable cross-assets (listed, non-listed, bonds, real assets, …), on a worldwide basis.
Finally, the NEC is transparent: our methodology is fully available in free access on our website.
Where and how do you source your data?
To build our methodology, we gathered over 250 scientific and public data sources (all of which are detailed in our methodological documentation on www.nec-initiative.com).
To apply our methodology and compute NEC scores, analysts source their input data in the analysed issuers’ public reportings.
As for non-listed companies, analysts have the possibility to use already computed NEC values (proxies) provided in our methodological content, or to source few needed input data with the analysed issuers.
What is the cost for your data offering?
It is proportional to the scale of the requested universe.