Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), a global provider of technology and data, has announced its collaboration with NatureAlpha, a provider of AI-driven nature and biodiversity risk analytics. This partnership integrates NatureAlpha’s nature-related metrics into the ICE Climate Analytics Platform, which offers physical and transition climate risk metrics and analytics for global fixed income and equity assets.
Larry Lawrence, Head of ICE Climate, stated that biodiversity loss is a significant factor in analyzing climate and financial stability. He added that the integration of NatureAlpha data provides clients with tools to manage climate and nature-related financial risks, supporting activities from trading strategies to reporting and regulatory compliance. He emphasized that the collaboration aims to deliver the depth, granularity, and biodiversity insights required to meet growing expectations and facilitate more informed investment decisions.
NatureAlpha’s platform, Geoverse 2.0, is now accessible through the ICE Climate Analytics platform. It delivers granular biodiversity and nature risk insights across 8.5 million global asset locations. Through this integration, ICE Climate has mapped these metrics to its extensive universe of fixed income and equity instruments, including 1.7 million corporate bonds and 11,500 global equities.
The ICE Climate Analytics Platform supports institutional investors with portfolio management, advanced multi-asset class dashboards, and real-time hazard monitoring. The platform is updated monthly and includes experimental tools based on client feedback, serving as a solution for climate-related financial analysis. The collaboration with NatureAlpha allows ICE Climate to unify spatial intelligence and nature exposure analytics within a single platform. This integration also aids in aligning with emerging global frameworks such as the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), assisting clients in fulfilling increasing transparency requirements.
Nick Hough-Robbins, CEO of NatureAlpha, commented that working with ICE enhances NatureAlpha’s role as a provider of nature data and analytics, while expanding the global reach and impact of their data across all asset classes. He noted that integrating their nature and biodiversity data into ICE’s Climate Analytics platform will enable clients to understand and mitigate their natural world risk, contributing to the shared objective of equipping organizations with the necessary data to consider environmental factors in investment, capital allocation, and business decisions.
This new nature-metrics offering complements ICE’s broader climate data portfolio, which encompasses physical climate risk, transition risk, and social impact metrics. These combined datasets aim to provide clients with a comprehensive view of climate risk across various asset classes and geographies.
