Nature & Biodiversity
Biodiversity and nature-related risks are interconnected yet complex, often leading to confusion when assessing the sustainability risks of corporate issuers. The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and other emerging frameworks aim to simplify these complexities and facilitate effective reporting.
Environmental Markets
Our environmental markets are among the most liquid in the world and provide the venues for where the price of emissions is set every day.
ICE has a strategic alliance with NatureAlpha, a leading provider of nature and biodiversity metrics, to offer a comprehensive suite of data products for both equities and corporate fixed income securities that help investors to quantify their nature-related risks and prepare to report to regulatory requirements such as the TNFD or Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
Our solution
The Nature & Biodiversity solution takes a modular approach to building comprehensive analytics to reflect the complexity of nature. Each module is built on a series of sub-models utilizing curated datasets from the world’s most authoritative scientific, regulatory, corporate, and government sources. These models assess a company’s exposure to multiple aspects of risk, including impacts and dependencies, regulation, reputation, and risks generated from geographical proximity to biodiversity-sensitive areas.
Identification
To help understand a company's interface with nature, the global locations of a company with operations located in nature- and biodiversity-sensitive areas are identified.
Measurement
- Biodiversity Impact: How much am I impacting biodiversity through my portfolio?
- Nature risk: What is my portfolio's reliance on nature and where are the risks greatest?
Action
Providing the tools to help investors report to frameworks such as the TNFD or CSRD and actively engage with portfolio companies on taking appropriate action.
- Unmanaged Risk: Looks at a company's ability to manage their nature- and biodiversity-related risks through policies and management.
Universe
Available now with 9,000 companies and 1.2m securities.
Core Risk Metrics
Impacts, dependencies, proximity to areas of sensitive biodiversity, PDF footprint.
TNFD Core Metrics
TNFD core reporting datapoints.
NVAR
Nature Value at Risk, using TNFD future scenarios.
Nature RevEX
Nature RevEX uses NatureAlpha’s materiality assessment to link revenue exposures to high impacts and dependencies.