TNFD's success depends on connected and contextual data

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.

In late September 2025, the TNFD, a global initiative to standardise nature-related financial disclosures, published its first ever Status Report, marking two years since its recommendations were finalised.

Sustainable investors should focus on making their investment processes and strategies ‘AI-ready’, says James Phare, CEO of Neural Alpha.