In a wide ranging interview with ESG Investor recently our CEO James Phare shared his thoughts about the challenges, opportunities and costs & opportunity costs of AI adoption. James covered many points including model choice, use cases, architectural choices and lessons from bespoke consultancy projects and our own Responsible Capital AI ESG product.

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.

As part of UKSIF's Good Money Week, Planet Tracker and Trase Finance come together to explore what actions investors and lenders can take to mitigate the risk of financing deforestation, with the case study of the Gran Chaco.