Trase Finance uses supply chain modelling to allocate annual commodity-specific deforestation risk in hectares to investors based on their total equity ownership in commodity traders exposed to deforestation via investing subsidiaries and fund shareholdings. For the first time this allows for a quantifiable and robust way to rank asset managers according to their exposure to deforestation risk.

Recently we decided to take a brief look at Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA) sustainability disclosures using our AI platform Responsible Capital. Tesla are renowned under the leadership of Elon Musk for being unafraid to be different and not follow the crowd and so we wanted to see how well our AI could perform extracting key metrics from PDF format sustainability reports for quantitative comparisons over a period of a few years.

Technological innovations will be key to ensuring 'early adopter' TNFD reporting companies provide useful nature-related information.