Neural Alpha’s CEO James Phare spoke alongside project partners at the launch of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures(TNFD) inaugural 2025 Status Report, hosted at Bloomberg during New York Climate Week.

“There’s a lot more activity than most realise — and TNFD is impressively ahead of TCFD at a similar point in its release cycle.”

The report points to unprecedented momentum as companies integrate nature into decision-making and disclosure. The pace is energising: there’s real progress across financial institutions and corporates, and rich data opportunities emerging.

Neural Alpha used its Responsible Capital AI platform to run a first-of-a-kind global assessment of the extent of TNFD disclosure —translating TNFD’s General Requirements, Disclosure Requirements and LEAP approach into a series of AI prompts — and analysed 1.4M corporate disclosures for 7k companies, comparing results with smaller survey datasets.

The technical leadership of the TNFD team really has to be commended. They were prepared to try a bold new approach, and it has paid dividends.

“With AI, it’s very achievable to integrate nature data at scale — especially for downstream companies and financial institutions.”

This work is a strong case study in Responsible AI. Across alternate project scenarios, calculating environmental impact (embedded waterand energy usage) showed the AI-led approach used a fraction of the resources of human-led and technology-assisted methods. Used wisely, this is a paradigm-shifting capability that sustainability professionals should be embracing.

Read the full report: TNFD Status Report
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