Harness Inrate’s comprehensive nature and biodiversity solutions to analyze your portfolio’s biodiversity exposure. Our solutions include insights from corporate disclosures, biodiversity-specific controversy screening, and ESG impact ratings that assess the biodiversity impact of a company’s business activities.
Inrate’s Biodiversity Solutions
Biodiversity Metrics
Inrate provides metrics that encompasses biodiversity policies and targets, company activities in sensitive areas, data on the extent of land/freshwater/ocean change, and much more. The metrics are based on leading and globally acknowledged frameworks such as the TNFD and GRI.
Biodiversity Controversies Screening
Inrate screens for company involvement in ESG controversies over various biodiversity-related topics. This covers topics such as exploitation of natural resources, land and sea use change, environmental pollution, GHG impact, and more.
ESG Impact Ratings
Inrate’s ESG Impact Ratings include key biodiversity metrics and assessments. Our final ratings incorporate a multidimensional assessment of biodiversity impact that includes the following:
- Impact assessment of business activities on key biodiversity loss drivers (land/sea-use change, pollution, resource exploitation, and invasive species)
- Evaluation of corporate disclosures on important biodiversity indicators
- Impact assessment of biodiversity-related controversies
Biodiversity Loss: An Investor Concern
The intricate link between biodiversity and climate change, with wetlands, oceans, and forests playing a critical role in absorbing atmospheric CO2 emissions, has gained recognition within the regulatory market. This is evident with the emergence of biodiversity-specific regulations, investor coalitions, and frameworks that are calling for increased transparency on biodiversity-related portfolio performance.
Important Frameworks
Investor Coalitions
Regulatory Momentum
EU’s plan to incorporate biodiversity-related disclosure requirements for companies and investors
Why Inrate
Impact Lens
Inrate has balanced financial materiality with impact well before 'double materiality' gained prominance in European Capital Markets. The impact of a company's business activities has stood at the core of Inrate's assessments, overcoming the biases created by disclosures.
Flexible Data Models
Inrate’s research can be customized to develop comprehensive datasets based on the client’s investment objectives and evolving regulatory requirements. This unmatched customization utilizes meticulous research on the impact of business activities, corporate sustainability disclosures, and ESG controversies.
Dedicated Client Support
Inrate operates as a ‘glass box’ with an unparalleled commitment to transparency and communication. We deliver unequivocal support from our long-standing team of research analysts, providing insights from our extensive research and subject matter expertise.
Regulatory Alignments
Inrate’s datalake evolves in tandem with new regulatory frameworks, consistently empowering clients to uncover their portfolio’s regulatory conformity. Our datasets promise relevance and materiality with the evolving sustainability market.