Neural Alpha provided an analysis on the scale and channels of UK financial sector exposure (both direct and indirect) to deforestation risk in Indonesian palm and Brazilian soy and beef, as WWF sought to strength commitments in the UK Environment Bill.

James Phare, CEO of Neural Alpha, describes how AI can be used to understand the system-level risks arising from the UN’s Global Biodiversity Framework.

Trase data estimates where a trader (and, by proxy, downstream companies that are customers of that trader) has significant exposure to a biome that is on a financial institutions’ exclusion list, subject to specific bank policy requirements (such as certification), or more broadly deemed an environmentally ‘sensitive’ location requiring more detailed screening.