Articles from Clarity AI

Clarity AI, the leading global technology platform for extra-financial intelligence, today announced a strategic partnership with RiskThinking.ai, the trusted provider of asset-level physical climate risk modelling. This collaboration integrates RiskThinking.ai’s granular asset-level data and advanced physical risk modeling into Clarity AI’s award-winning platform, insights, and native AI capabilities, providing financial institutions and corporations with unprecedented "bottom-up" transparency into climate vulnerability, hazards, and nature and biodiversity impact.

Clarity AI, one of the world’s largest and most awarded technology and AI firms in sustainability, today announced the acquisition of ecolytiq, a leading provider of in-app climate engagement solutions for financial institutions and their millions of retail and commercial banking customers globally. This strategic move further reinforces Clarity AI’s position at the forefront of the rapidly expanding sustainability tech sector, strengthening its dominance in delivering impactful, data-driven solutions that empower individuals and organizations to make more sustainable choices.

Clarity AI, the leading sustainability tech company, has launched an AI-driven solution designed to transform how asset managers and investors conduct sustainability research. By automating analysis and providing real-time company insights, Clarity AI enables investment teams to move beyond slow, static service providers and take full control of their sustainability assessments.

Clarity AI, the leading sustainability tech company, announced today that it has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: ESG Data and Analytics Providers, Q3 2024. The report designates Leaders, Strong Performers, Contenders, and Challengers, based on 25 criteria to assess their current offering and strategy.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Clarity AI, a leading technology company that delivers environmental and social insights to ensure that companies and consumers invest and purchase sustainably, is all in on AWS. Clarity AI’s platform analyzes millions of data points to help investors track, measure, and optimize the social and sustainability impact of their investment portfolios and comply with regulatory reporting. These insights empower 150 million shoppers to purchase from sustainable brands and help investors direct more than $30 trillion in funds toward companies that produce positive environmental impacts.

In a groundbreaking collaboration, Clarity AI and Radient AI have announced a strategic partnership where Clarity AI's sustainability data will seamlessly integrate into Radient AI’s leading fund intelligence platform.

Clarity AI, the leading sustainability technology platform, has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of “Brands That Matter” in 2023.

Clarity AI, the leading sustainability technology platform, has launched a groundbreaking Sustainable Investment index and ETF methodology, which aligns with the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

New research from Clarity AI, the leading sustainability technology platform, reveals discrepancies in one in five companies between their reported CDP data and the emissions data reported in their own sustainability reports.

Global sustainability technology company, Clarity AI, announces the integration of its data offering into SimCorp’s investment management platform.

Clarity AI, the leading sustainability tech platform announces it has partnered with Aspiration, a top global climate finance company, to launch sustainability assessment solutions for consumer use cases. This unique partnership will deliver effective and accessible solutions to consumer platforms (e.g. e-commerce, retail banks, supermarkets, etc.) to help end users measure and reduce their carbon footprint and understand the sustainability performance of merchants by combining Clarity AI’s high-quality, transparent data and tools with Aspiration’s best-in-class carbon removal projects.

Global sustainability tech platform, Clarity AI and impact data and analytics provider GIST Impact recently convened over 180 asset managers, wealth managers, and asset owners for a highly engaging virtual event, to discuss the crucial role of biodiversity in the investment landscape.

Clarity AI, the leading global sustainability tech platform, released new research today that highlights a significant gap between the intentions of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) funds and their impact in countries with the greatest need for sustainable development. On average, companies in SDG funds sell only 1% of their products and services in these countries.

ESG-related controversial incidents often receive significant attention from the media but the link between these controversies and actual stock performance isn’t always clear.

44% of professional investors are now using sustainability analytic capabilities or data from multiple service providers, suggesting market participants are looking for a greater number of higher quality solutions when it comes to analyzing the sustainability of their portfolios, according to a new survey by Clarity AI.

Clarity AI, the leading sustainability tech platform, released a new analysis on funds with sustainability or ESG-related terms in their name. The report found that regulatory regimes for sustainability disclosures and labels differ significantly across the US, UK and EU, leaving both issuers and investors confused.

Leading sustainability technology platform, Clarity AI, and leading impact data and intelligence provider, GIST Impact, have announced their latest partnership in the development of a biodiversity impact assessment product. This innovative solution comes at a time when biodiversity-themed funds have gained nearly $1 billion in assets this year, indicating the growing recognition of the financial industry's role in mitigating biodiversity risks.

Clarity AI, the leading sustainability tech platform, recently held its inaugural Customer Advisory Board Meeting for investment managers. The event brought together prominent companies in the industry, including Lazard, Metlife, Invesco, PGIM, La Francaise, Lansforsakringar, and Santander, to discuss pressing issues related to sustainability and ESG analytics.

Clarity AI, the leading sustainability technology platform, hosted a virtual event on March 28, 2023, that brought together over 900 registrants from the world's leading consumer brands and ecommerce platforms. The event featured executive speakers from Klarna, Clarity AI, Greenbiz, and Lyst, who discussed a range of topics related to sustainability in consumer products.

Clarity AI, a leading sustainability technology platform, and CDP, the non-profit which runs the global environmental disclosure system, have today announced a new partnership focused on jointly developing and bringing to market new products for financial institutions to measure and act on their environmental impact.

Clarity AI has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.

Clarity AI announced today the results of a follow-up analysis to its November 2022 analysis on Article 9 funds that are investing in companies with undeniable evidence of having violated the UNGC principles, as well as in companies deriving the majority of their revenues from fossil fuels. Today’s analysis endeavors to unpack why “green” funds would be investing in this way.

Clarity AI, the leading global sustainability tech platform, announced today that it has partnered with Refinitiv, a London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) business, to develop SFDR Reporting Professional.

Clarity AI – the leading global sustainability tech platform – announced today that Klarna, the global leader in the generational shift away from credit cards, is using Clarity AI’s data and capabilities to promote environmentally conscious brands to 150 million shoppers.

Clarity AI, the leading global sustainability tech platform, announced today that of approximately 6,500 public companies that report direct emissions, leading data providers have discrepancies in this reported data 42% of the time, where a discrepancy is any difference of more than 1%. When increasing the discrepancy threshold to more than 20%, leading data providers have discrepancies in one out of every eight data points.

Clarity AI, the leading global sustainability tech platform, announced today an assessment of 15,000 funds and their Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) classifications. This analysis focuses on the 750 Article 9 funds within this universe that have sufficient information on at least 80% of their holdings. Clarity AI’s research shows that many Article 9 funds might be noncompliant with the regulation’s do no significant harm criteria.

Clarity AI, the leading global sustainability tech platform, announced today that in a sample of 40,000 public companies, approximately only 30% report at least one quantitative sustainability metric. As further requirements under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) come into force in fewer than 70 days, lack of available reported data may necessitate the use of estimated data to fulfill the regulator’s expectation to provide disclosures on a “best effort” basis.

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is recognizing Clarity AI Founder and CEO, Rebeca Minguela, as one of the Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs of 2022 at its Builders and Innovators Summit in Healdsburg, California.

Clarity AI, the leading global sustainability tech platform, announced today that it believes the positive viral attention Patagonia received last week and the negative viral attention H&M and other fast-fashion brands received over the past few months is clouding the picture of what can actually save the planet.

Clarity AI announced today that they have been named a leader in “The Forrester New Wave™: ESG Ratings, Data, And Analytics, Q3 2022.” Clarity AI received a differentiated rating, the highest score possible across 7 of the 10 criteria evaluated: Analytics Capabilities, Standards Integrity, Presentation, Connections/Integrations, Execution Roadmap, Market Approach, and Product Vision.

Clarity AI, the global sustainability tech platform, announced today that their sustainability data, integrated into BlackRock’s Aladdin platform, is being utilized in preparation for BlackRock’s enterprise reporting for the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) framework. BlackRock will leverage Clarity AI capabilities, data and expertise to facilitate efficient and accurate reporting on Principal Adverse Impact (PAI) indicators. PAI indicators are a set of specific ESG metrics mandated by the European Union as part of SFDR, which imposes granular sustainability disclosure obligations for asset managers and other financial market participants.

The EU Taxonomy aims to align all market stakeholders on what is considered sustainable in the context of the EU, but investors need greater transparency on just how green the funds they are buying really are. Analysis by Clarity AI, the market-leading, global sustainability technology platform, reveals significant differences between fund revenues aligned with green – and EU Taxonomy related – objectives across different types of sustainable investment products in the market today.

Clarity AI, an award-winning sustainability tech firm, is now valued at $450 million after raising $50 million in its latest funding round, which closed in August 2021. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round and was joined by the Fifth Wall ClimateTech Fund as well as existing investors -- BlackRock among them. Private contributor Sir Jonathan Ive, Chancellor of the Royal College of Art and former Chief Design Officer at Apple also contributed to the round. Existing investors include Deutsche Boerse, Kibo Ventures, Mundi Ventures, Seaya Ventures and Founders Fund.