An Overview of Gaia Metrics Information Products
Sustainability can be complex. Where sustainability intersects with finance, even more so. Gaia Metrics removes the complexity by making it easy and inexpensive, with a range of information services and cost-effective packages that support companies every step of the way.
Gaia Metrics for CSR
Gaia Metrics makes it fast, easy and inexpensive to get the data you need to begin assessing the financial risk from environmental and social factors. And we make it a short step from compiling the data to putting your company in position to be a GRI Reporter.
So you can quickly identify the Corporate Social Responsibility-related information on your external and internal sites, regulatory and census filings. And so you can compare the quantity of your published data with industry peers, and identify the gaps in your reporting relative to your industry and peers.
Gaia Metrics assesses the thousands of pages on your company's internal and external sites, financial and regulator filings and other documents, picking out just the words and numbers that relate to GRI or other CSR reporting. For companies not yet publishing a Corporate Sustainability Report, this information fuels the creation of a CSR and typically supports at least a Grade C GRI report.
Even prior publishers benefit, because it streamlines future preparation, saving time and money. Subscribers get a highly visual, easily navigable and simple to query report showing what their company is already disclosing, where and in what detail.
Gaia Metrics also makes it quick and easy for companies not quite ready to commit to a CSR of even budget for one. So you can understand your profile, where your company stands and what needs to be done. For about what you spend each day on a single shot latte. Learn more...
Gaia Metrics Benchmarking
Benchmarking shows executives how their companies compare to peers in the industry. And by spotlighting gaps or omissions, it suggests where institutional investors and ratings services may focus their attention.
Yet not all data, or omissions of data, are equal. Gaia Metrics identifies what's material and what's worth benchmarking. We take into account qualitative and quantitative measures. And we weigh and factor how what's material in one of your industries may differ from the other businesses in the corporate portfolio.
Powered by data culled from Gaia Metrics for CSR our Benchmarking service produces an assessment of the materiality of data collected by peer companies, and an evaluation of the data yoru company should collect.
Gaia Metrics Benchmarking can also report on specific frameworks or custom groupings, in order to meet a peer level standard and to address the expectations of specific stakeholders. Coming soon, Gaia Metrics Benchmarking will also inform analysis of hte financial impacts of lagging, meeting or exceeding industry norms on a wide range of indicators.
The report is dynamic, easy to navigate and easy to query.
The Benchmark analysis features the areas where your company is doing great and that you should spotlight. It shows where your company's reporting and performance are average. And it zeroes in on the areas that need attention, so you can focus on them before they come to the attention of investors, community groups or other stakeholders. Learn more...
Gaia Metrics for Finance
Gaia Metrics Financial Risk Assessment can reach deep into a company’s operations, into satellite and line of business accounts, and across supply chains to provide a comprehensive picture of the links between social and environmental factors and financial risk – in the past, at the moment and projecting forward.
Our forward-looking, financial- valued sustainability indicators are powerful management tools, linking to both income statement-like or balance sheet-like financial projections. They help inform decisions by combining physical quantities of environmental and social factors with future pricing probabilities, such as those associated with remediation costs, product recovery costs, production technology change costs, insurance costs, litigation costs and energy costs.
For many companies, this provides their first true insight into a single, integrated view of financial risk. In effect, for these companies, the triple bottom line is replaced by a far more comprehensive, far more useful single bottom line.
Gaia Metrics Financial Risk Assessment to helps financial executives:
- Identify key financial risks and opportunities stemming from social and environmental factors
- Create a custom ranking for a company’s greatest sources of sustainability risk and cost effective remediation strategies
- Evaluate and set priorities through the use of scenario management tools for forward planning purposes, utilizing regionally based price and time settings
- Think through scenarios for projecting likely future prices for certain social and environmental variables that currently have a zero or non-identified value
- Use Benchmarking insights as a basis for corrective measures before regulatory and investor groups require those corrections
- Populate business satellite accounts that can inform core US GAAP or IFRS financial reports
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