Impact valuation ESG data measuring and quantifying the impact of a company's activities on natural, human capital and financial capital, in $ terms. Based on rigorous scientific and economic modelling, and covering 14000+ companies globally. Our impact valuation data allows investors to measure, value and benchmark impacts of business activities across Natural, Human and Financial Capital KPIs. Presented in the form of economic values, GIST's approach gives investors a common yardstick by which to understand materiality fully and accurately, so that they can manage risks, identify hidden alpha, and make informed decisions to stay ahead of the curve. Investors can use our ESG data to screen potential investments, manage and track ESG performance across their portfolios, and clearly communicate materiality across all ESG dimensions. Why use GIST's impact valuation data? 1. Measure all impacts of a company on shareholders and society - not just carbon / environmental impacts GIST calculates a company's impact across all four capitals - Natural, Human, Social and Financial, covering 18 main KPIs and 350+ sub-KPIs. Analysts are looking for as much data as possible on hidden alpha - and GIST provides coverage across all material impacts of a company's activities that might present a future risk - or an opportunity. 2. Compare easily across different metrics GIST uses scientific and economic modelling to provide accurate calculations of the impacts of a company in economic terms - providing a $ value of the impact on stakeholders and society. Analysts find themselves trying to make sense of fundamentally different metrics - parts per million of air pollution, tonnes of GHG emissions, gallons of water consumed, m2 land use change. GIST allows apples-to-apples comparison by converting all these different impacts into $ values (which are geography-specific), so you can understand the relative size of a company's air pollution impacts against its water consumption impacts, for example. 3. Benchmark performance across a portfolio, and within and across sectors Most sustainability scores, ratings and rankings evaluate companies within their sectors. This creates artificial distinctions and makes it difficult for analysts to measure how a company is performing in absolute terms (compared to relative grading). GIST calculates absolute impact, measured in $ values, to provide a simple, straightforward analysis that can be applied within sectors, and across sectors, to compare all the companies in a portfolio against each other accurately and make informed decisions. 4. Identify and manage material risks More traditional views of ‘risk’ have typically focused on the direct risk to a company’s P&L, and its ‘produced’ or ‘financial’ capital. These are risks that come from environmental dependencies (e.g. logistics companies threatened by storms/cyclones, agricultural companies threatened by crop failure, etc.) GIST takes a broader view and also measure risks that come from impacts of a company - not just what affects a company’s P&L directly, but what affects assets of society (natural, social, human capital) and is therefore an externality at risk of eventually being internalized - through regulation or otherwise. Assets in the oil and gas industry that have been a stranded as a result of regulatory and legal action are a good example of this risk becoming reality. 5. Understand how impact changes based on location GIST uses a granular, location-specific approach which means that with location data for activities (e.g., air pollution, waste), we can calculate the impact on shareholders and society based on local context - environmental, ecological, health, socioeconomic and demographic, so we can make more accurate estimates for example for a city in Ghana vs. a city in Sweden. As disclosure is expected to increase dramatically in the next 2 years, GIST's methodology is equipped with a level of resolution that can provide insights that are constantly increasing in precision.