About Gaia Metrics
Gaia Metrics was founded on the belief that sustainability should be natural to every business, and that understanding and valuing it is key to financial performance and shareholder value.
We help companies engage stakeholders, perform due diligence and extract and synthesize meaning from large quantities of documents in order to fuel reporting. And we help them use this information to gain insight into the financial risks and opportunities associated with environmental and social issues.
Sustainability issues are strategic
Environmental and social issues are increasingly relevant to companies’ bottom lines, affecting brand equity, sales, costs and profits. This is shifting the discussion from the community affairs office to also include the C-suite and the Boardroom.
A rising tide
More and more companies are hearing from – and reacting to pressure from – social impact investors, consumers, employee and labor groups, community organizations and other stakeholders. They’re responding to the threats to brand and reputation, and opportunities for new value propositions in stakeholder engagement.
And there are dollar implications.
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Pricing changes behavior
Many companies struggle to understand – and manage – environmental and social issues because they don’t have a way to recognize, let alone measure, the financial risk attached to them. Nor do they have a way to weigh downside risk against upside opportunities. Conventional frameworks simply aren’t designed to assess the full portfolio of assets and liabilities.
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Being diligent
Gaia Metrics helps you prove due diligence – should the need arise.
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CSR as starting point
For many companies a formal CSR document has been the end goal of their sustainability initiative. Gaia Metrics turns this convention upside down by making CSR the starting point – with a report as one likely outcome of stakeholder engagement. Gaia Metrics expands the impact of CSR by making sustainability integral to financial and operational decision making, using CSR data to fuel analysis of environmental and social factors risk.
Taking the pulse of stakeholders
Gaia Metrics helps CSR professionals monitor and enrich the public online conversations taking place on any number of community and other stakeholder sites, and to gain additional insight into the issues that matter to key constituencies. And it helps CSR professionals confidently engage with stakeholders, knowing they’ve gone above and beyond with their diligence.
CSR as process, not event
The documents, relationships, and events that fuel a CSR program occur throughout the year. The reporting about such activities should too. Gaia Metrics helps CSR managers surface the information they need to bring stories to life – as they occur -- and make CSR timely, vibrant and meaningful.
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Apples to apples
Knowing your company’s CO2 output per employee is interesting. On the other hand knowing how you compare -- on CO2 and some 100 other indicators -- to other companies in your industry is actionable business knowledge.
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How Gaia Metrics can help
Gaia Metrics helps companies and investors in three key ways
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Gaia Metrics for CSR. We help CSR professionals with the stakeholder engagement, due diligence and information extraction and synthesis that powers reporting.
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Gaia Metrics Benchmarking. Our benchmarking service provides data from hundreds of indicators across some 100 industries. Customers use this data to spot vulnerabilities and understand how they rank within their industry.
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Gaia Metrics for Finance. We help finance executives understand which environmental and social factors are material to their business, why, and in what time frame. And we provide a pricing mechanism so they can gauge materiality to forward looking financial assessments.