Integration Alpha

How to make ESG Data accessible using a consortia approach

March 31, 2022

Tom Debus

ESG data is a quality and implementation bottleneck and failing to solve it will prevent us to alter our current climate change path as a society. Individual companies, regulators, NGOs and financial service provider will not be able to tackle this challenge if they don’t join forces. Let’s explore a setup using a consortia based approach and decentralized technology to solve this tough-nut problem. The Problem Whoever talks about ESG, the challenges of climate change in particular and its regulation in general, agrees that data is one of the greatest pain points in creating traction.

ESG Portfolio Analysis & Optimization

March 23, 2022

Tom Debus

The pressure on companies across all industries and sizes is mounting to get sustainability right. And while focus industries that have a larger impact on climate change due to their energy or carbon footprint intensity, the European and US regulators this time round have picked yet another conduit: They will use the Financial Services and Capital Markets as a leverage for faster and more holistic change agenda. The reasoning is as simple as it is elegant: If investors have to decide on where they put their money, let us make sure that they also have to think about the ecological choice they are making when taking these investment decisions.