The demand for climate and environmental data from financial institutions is growing rapidly. While the last decade has seen exponential growth and improvement in CEA data, analytics and methods, often produced by the UK’s world-leading science sector, the vast majority of this has not found its way into financial institutions’ decision-making.

Academic research outputs are not often directly digestible by financial institutions and commercialising new science has also proven challenging. This limits the accessibility and scaling of innovation, even within a large, growing and profitable market for financial data.

Breaking down these barriers presents a major opportunity both to generate a vibrant and world-leading ecosystem of UK enterprises providing CEA, and to enhance the competitive positioning and sustainability of the UK financial sector. 

Our work to support this ecosystem of innovation includes:

• Connecting industries and networks across environmental science and finance;
• Knowledge exchange and raising the bar on application;
• Stimulating new ideas and early stage business support.