Powering the future of impact: Platforms leveraging impact accounting for improved business decision-making
IFVI is dedicated to supporting companies and investors in developing compelling and easy-to-understand insights that drive a more holistic view of corporate value and risk.
Several pioneering data platforms and software as a service (SaaS) tools have integrated IFVI’s impact accounting methodologies and value factors, enabling businesses, investors, and policymakers to assess returns, risks, and impacts more comprehensively. These solutions bridge the gap between financial performance and sustainability metrics, fostering a holistic understanding of long-term value creation.
Explore the leading platforms leveraging IFVI methodologies to drive informed decision-making
Audience: Investors, companies, regulators and policymakers, academics and research institutions
Use Cases: Financial & sustainability analysis; corporate reporting & decision-making; regulatory & policy insights; and benchmarking & market transparency.
EcoMap is a research organization and open data platform, developed in collaboration with leading academic institutions and MSCI Sustainability Institute. The platform provides quantified and monetized financial climate risks and environmental costs through impact accounting—starting with greenhouse gas emissions—and integrates these values into financial analysis. Developed and operated without a profit motive, EcoMap provides accessible, transparent, and academically rigorous analysis of environmental impacts. By enabling stakeholders across industry, academia, government, and civil society to understand the total economic impact of corporate activities, EcoMap ensures that environmental considerations are actionable, comparable, and free from commercial influence.
Operating at a global scale, EcoMap presents monetized climate risks and environmental costs across ~20,000 companies, 381 industries, and 86 countries, providing a granular and standardized approach to integrating sustainability into financial decision-making. EcoMap integrates IFVI’s value factors to ensure that environmental costs are quantified using a rigorous impact accounting approach. By leveraging peer-reviewed methodologies, EcoMap translates environmental data into financial metrics, enabling decision-makers to assess corporate sustainability performance alongside financial performance.
Audience: Companies, investors, consultants, data and tech platforms
Use cases: Use cases include (but are not limited to):
Conducting due diligence of a company’s sustainability performance over 150+ environmental, social and governance metrics across direct operations and the upstream/downstream value chain;
Calculating location-specific impacts in monetary terms (aligned to UN SDGs) to assess business impacts, risks and opportunities;
Quantifying the social return on investment of companies’ specific environmental and social programs in monetary terms to identify, measure and report their social impact in line with specific standards and regulations (e.g. UK Social Value Model; UN SDGs);
Analyzing business impact on climate, nature and biodiversity using a toolkit that includes biodiversity footprinting, assessment of asset proximity to sensitive locations (KBAs, WDPA, IUCN Red List species), comprehensive dependencies and physical risk analysis, as well as drill-down into threat abatement and species restoration opportunities;
One-click alignment with CSRD and TNFD requirements/recommendations using purpose-built tools; and
Benchmarking and analysis at company, sector and portfolio levels using off-the-shelf data across 17,500+ companies, 3+ million business assets and 100,000+ funds/indices.
GIST Impact is a leading provider of impact data and intelligence, harnessing the power of impact economics and technology to uncover the full value contribution of a business to the world. GIST Impact works with pioneering companies and investors who prioritize outcomes over intent. Its solutions enable clients to quantify business externalities in monetary terms and other science-backed metrics, providing a 360° view of risk and impact to facilitate evidence-based decision-making. Its data and intelligence provides investor-grade insights across multiple domains – including granular climate, nature and biodiversity analytics, monetized impact accounting across natural, human, social and produced capitals, and purpose-built reporting (e.g. SFDR, CSRD and TNFD) solutions. GIST Impact is adding IFVI’s authoritative value factors to its dedicated impact intelligence platform, offering end-users additional research-driven choice and flexibility in evaluating corporate externalities at a global scale with local precision.
Use cases: Reduce employee attrition; improve job quality; strengthen supply chain accountability; and track ROI on workforce investments.
Lunum is a data and insights platform that measures and monetizes the hard-to-quantify aspects of workforce investments -_ the financial key that unlocks the business case for driving both social impact and enterprise value. We are at the forefront of impact accounting, incorporating IFVI’s IA Methodology into our software for linking workforce value to business outcomes, positioning human capital as a strategic asset.
Use cases: Analyze portfolios; monitor and benchmark target companies; report on impact; produce research insights; and integrate impact in accounting frameworks.
Richmond Global Sciences (RGS) is a leading technology company empowering investors and corporate leaders to integrate an impact lens into their decision-making processes. RGS RIFT revolutionizes impact measurement by linking sustainability metrics to financial outcomes via impact accounting. RGS’s patented engine leverages outcome-based data and the latest library of social costs and scientific research to deliver fully transparent, customizable impact assessments for public / private equity investors and corporate leaders. RGS moves beyond traditional sustainability metrics by offering the first scalable measurement of companies’ impacts through their products and services. RGS plans to continue to update its platform to align with best practices in impact accounting, embedding the latest methodological developments from IFVI-VBA whenever possible. RGS’ additional data and analytics solutions include AI-powered Thematic Investing Solutions, Products and Services Industry Classification System (PSICS) and Revenue Datafeed, Fixed Income Climate Analytics, and Tariff Resilience Tool, among others.
Use cases: Optimize procurement and supply chain management by identifying high-impact areas; conduct Scope 3 assessments aligned with the GHG Protocol; enhance sustainability reporting and meet disclosure requirements; strengthen investor confidence; and support evidence-based target setting and holistic corporate steering.
WISIT – the WifOR Institute Sustainability Impact Tool – is a web-based application designed to assess the social, environmental, and economic impacts along companies‘ supply chains. Unlike conventional tools, WISIT applies advanced macroeconomic modeling that enables organizations to evaluate supply chain impacts using existing purchasing data. Aligned with international sustainability standards, WISIT provides actionable insights for data-driven decision-making.
The tool was developed by the independent economic research institute WifOR, which was founded in 2009 as a spin-off from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. As experts in macroeconomic analysis, WifOR Institute’s research provides data-based solutions to global challenges, with a focus on sustainability, labor markets, and health.
