GIST Impact

Impact Database, Datamate, Nature Value at Risk

GIST Impact measures and values corporate impacts and dependencies on nature and society for investors, banks and companies. Its asset-level database covers biodiversity footprinting, natural capital accounting in monetary terms, ecosystem-service dependency, water stress, deforestation exposure and a set of physical climate hazards. Biodiversity measurement draws on the Biodiversity Intactness Index developed with the Natural History Museum, applied to mapped corporate assets. Reporting outputs are structured around TNFD recommendations. Distinctive for expressing nature impacts as monetary natural capital values.

Vendor methodology

Transparency Score

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Public transparency, not model quality iThe Transparency Score (0–3) estimates public methodological transparency: the degree to which the vendor's analytical approach to modeling climate and nature risk can be assessed from publicly available sources. It is explicitly not a measure of vendor quality or accuracy.

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Product-level: public materials indicate risk scope and outputs, but little detail on modeling approach.

Product-level: solution pages name each metric and the published indices behind them, but no document explains how the metrics are computed.

For further information, see the section 'Transparency Score methodology' in the Readme.

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