FoSDA Publishes Annual Report 2025

Today, the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) published its interim annual report, highlighting insights and showcasing progress from the past year.

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“2024 was a pivotal year for FoSDA, one that placed strategic focus firmly on enhancing the foundations of our alliance to meet the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly evolving landscape.

Throughout 2024 and into 2025, FoSDA has continued to evolve and strengthen its alliance, with a particular emphasis on our organisational structure and strategic direction.”

Catalina Secreteanu
FoSDA Chair January 2025-June 2025

Nick Miller
FoSDA Chair June 2024- December 2024

FoSDA Publishes Annual Report

Today, the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) published its interim report, highlighting insights and showcasing progress from the past year.

Download the report

“2024 is a critical year for FoSDA. We look forward to working with all members, prospective members and important stakeholders in further enhancing the ecosystem for sustainability data, making sure industry participants have the insights and tools they need to integrate sustainability priorities into investment, financing and business decisions”

David Harris
FoSDA Chair (February – June 2024)

FoSDA to speak at City & Financial Global conference on Climate Transition Plans 2024

As the focus shifts from design to implementation of the TPT Framework and sector guidance, City & Financial Global’s 2nd Annual Summit on Transition Plans for Financial Institutions and Listed Companies on the 20 February will provide practical, detailed guidance about the steps that financial firms and companies need to be taking now in order to ensure that they are prepared to meet regulatory expectations and produce transition plans of the required standard.

This important event will gather some of the most senior leaders and experts in this field to share their knowledge, experience and expertise on the steps the companies should be taking now to develop a transition plan within the prescribed time limit.

Key topics to be discussed at the summit

  • Transition Plans as a key element of the Government’s Green Strategy
  • Transition plans as a supervisory tool 
  • Moving from design to implementation of the TPT Framework and Sector Guidance
  • The TPT Framework in the context of other relevant international initiatives, such as the ISSB Standards, the European Sustainability Reporting Standards, TCFD and GFANZ guidance 
  • Integrating transition finance into transition plans
  • How to minimise the potential litigation and activism risks associated with publishing transition plans
  • How investors and other stakeholders will use transition plans

To see the full list of speakers, click here. To register, click here.

FoSDA & CDP panel at COP27: Steering the role of ESG data providers

The Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) and CDP will co-host the ‘Steering the role of ESG data providers’ panel discussion as part of the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP27), taking place on 9 November from 10:30 – 11:30 (EET) at the We Mean Business Pavilion located in the Blue Zone area. 

ESG data and scoring providers play an essential role in financial decision-making and should ideally ensure that the data collected and provided through their services is aligned with science-based methodologies. Definitions are critical to effectively allow for capital allocations to contribute to a sustainable financial system.

However, a fragmented landscape, with the proliferation of different data gathering, rating, and scoring methodologies, is currently creating a lack of consensus and clear guidance for businesses to measure ESG risks, opportunities, and impacts and take action towards an alignment of the financial sector and the real economy towards the global net zero objective.

FoSDA & CDP panel will discuss the critical role ESG data and scoring providers play in decision-making to advance action towards the Paris Agreement goals. The event will focus on the need for solid and reliable data to provide guidance and enhance capital deployment to build a sustainable financial system. 

FoSDA will also be launching its flagship review of ESG Data Gaps and Holes.

 

 

9 November 2022, 10:30 –11:30 (EET)

COP27, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

Auditorium B in Business Pavilion for Climate Action – Blue Zone, Area C, Delegations Pavilion 5
(Pavilion no. 118 on the floorplan). 

Blue Zone Pass required.

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Moderator:

Pietro Bertazzi, Global Director, Policy Engagement and External Affairs, CDP

Speakers:

Sherry Madera, FoSDA Chair and Senior Vice President, Public Policy & Government Affairs, Mastercard

Sean Kidney, Co-founder and CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative

Richard Mattison, President of S&P Global Sustainable1 

David Harris, Head of Sustainable Finance Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

Swami Venkataraman, Associate Managing Director, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), Moody’s Investors Service

Climate Bonds Initiative: 6th annual Conference

On 7 September 2021, FoSDA attended the Climate Bonds Initiative’s annual conference and co-hosted one of the panels that was focused on current challenges that both data providers and data users face in the ESG disclosure sphere and other related ESG data issues.

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