Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), a global provider of technology and data, announced a collaboration with NatureAlpha, a firm specializing in 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 for fixed income and equity assets globally.
NatureAlpha’s Geoverse 2.0 platform, now accessible via the ICE Climate Analytics platform, provides 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 financial instruments, encompassing 1.7 million corporate bonds and 11,500 global equities.
Larry Lawrence, Head of ICE Climate, stated that biodiversity loss is a key consideration in analyzing climate and financial stability. He noted that the addition of NatureAlpha data equips clients with tools to manage climate and nature-related financial risks, supporting activities from trading strategies to regulatory compliance and reporting. Lawrence emphasized that the collaboration enables the delivery of the depth, granularity, and biodiversity insights necessary to meet increasing expectations and facilitate more informed investment decisions.
ICE’s Climate Analytics Platform supports institutional investors with features such as portfolio management, advanced multi-asset class dashboards, and real-time hazard monitoring. The platform receives monthly updates and includes experimental tools based on client feedback, aiming to provide a comprehensive solution for climate-related financial analysis. The integration with NatureAlpha allows ICE Climate to unify spatial intelligence and nature exposure analytics within a single platform. This development also supports alignment with emerging global frameworks, including the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), assisting clients in meeting growing transparency requirements.
Nick Hough-Robbins, CEO of NatureAlpha, commented that working with ICE enhances NatureAlpha’s role as a provider of pioneering nature data and analytics, while expanding the global reach and impact of their data across all asset classes. He highlighted that the integration of nature and biodiversity data within ICE’s Climate Analytics platform will enable clients to understand and mitigate natural world risk, contributing to the shared objective of providing organizations with the data needed to consider the planet in investment, capital allocation, and business decisions.
This new offering of nature metrics is part of ICE’s broader climate data suite, which includes physical climate risk, transition risk, and social impact metrics. These combined datasets are designed to provide clients with a holistic view of climate risk across various asset classes and geographies.
