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What is the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance?
The Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) is a multi-member alliance formed to address the environmental crisis and sustainability issues from a data perspective and foster collaboration in financial markets.
Our Purpose
There is now global acknowledgement that the climate crisis is a real and immediate threat, climate concerns as well as broader environmental and social considerations need to start moving into mainstream risk assessment and opportunity analysis. Capital markets are not understanding and integrating material sustainability considerations into their investment decisions, often resulting in capital being allocated to inefficient and even environmentally or socially damaging projects and assets. FoSDA has been formed to address this urgent situation from a data perspective and foster collaboration in the ecosystem.
FoSDA partners have been using their collective expertise and experience to deliver ESG data recommendations for the financial community. By engaging with regulators and industry we can together address the key challenges in the ESG dataspace and facilitate sustainable investing."
Sherry Madera
Chair, Future of Sustainable Data Alliance
There is a wealth of alternative ESG data sources out there that can improve our understanding of sustainability performance of our investments. Financial institutions will have to adopt new and different skillsets, if they are to integrate these effectively."
Christophe Christiaen
Innovation and Impact Lead, University of Oxford, Oxford Sustainable Finance Group
Finding solutions to the data gaps and challenges identified in driving sustainable capital markets and regulatory practice is essential if we are to achieve net-zero. FoSDA’s mission to identify, support and address data challenges through developing talent could not be timelier.”
Emma McGarthy
Head, Sustainable Policy Institute, OMFIF
Sharing knowledge, skills, tools and data are essential to talent development and capacity building and will help accelerate delivery of our Net Zero Future. The FoSDA community is a great forum to support this."
Gavin Starks
Gavin Starks, CEO, IcebreakerOne.org