Speakers:
· Fabienne Fortanier, DNB Director of Statistics & NGFS senior representative
· Jaime de Bourbon de Parme, OECD Environment Director
Innovative data for sustainable finance: Informing climate performance assessments and financial risk management
- Date
- 22 April 2026
- Time
- 10:00 - 18:00 (followed by a cocktail)
- Location
- OECD Conference Centre, Paris
Sessions
This session will explore how geospatial data and techniques are transforming the assessment of corporate climate risks and performance. Geospatial tools can be used to assess both corporate climate transitions and resilience, as well as fill data gaps for more opaque asset classes, such as private equity. Panellists will discuss recent advances and limitations in geospatial techniques, highlight practical use cases for policymakers and investors, and propose ways to better leverage location-based information for climate-related financial analysis.
Moderator: Jolien Noels, OECD
Speakers:
· Fernando Linardi, Banco Central do Brasil (V) (presentation)
· Theresa Löber, UK Met Office/Bank of England
· Elizabeth Christie, J.P. Morgan
· Charlotta Groth, Zurich Insurance Group
· Graham Revely, Climate X (presentation)
Discussant:
· Doddy Bahrudin, OJK (Indonesian Financial Services Authority) (V)
Speakers will provide brief insights on the open-source tools they are developing to support sustainable finance analysis.
Speakers:
· Lukas Riedel, CLIMADA (presentation)
· Anna Mowat, Global Energy Monitor (V) (presentation)
This session will dive into natural language processing approaches to collect corporate climate data from a range of sources. Large language models are increasingly relied onto analyse corporate sustainability reporting, turn qualitative information into quantitative metrics, and assess blind spots such as climate actions by SMEs. Panellists will discuss how NLP and LLMs in particular are being used to process unstructured climate information, alongside concerns around transparency, reliability, and greenwashing. The session will consider how their use can be scaled up for credible and transparent use in climate-related analyses of finance.
Moderator: Elena Triebskorn, Bundesbank
Speakers:
· Federico Piazza, ESMA (presentation)
· Budha Bhattacharya, Lombard Odier
· Svetlana Borovkova, City University of London Bayes Business School (presentation)
· Shinji Ayuha, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management (V)
· Andreas Hoepner, University College Dublin
This keynote will examine whether the growing availability of climate-related data and disclosures are translating into impactful changes in financial decision-making and capital allocation. It will provide an overview of the climate-related disclosure policy landscape and the current state of climate transparency more generally. It will reflect on the limits of current disclosure practices, the conditions under which transparency can drive real impact, and what is needed for climate information to move beyond compliance and become a catalyst for change.
Speaker: Paul Smeets, University of Amsterdam (presentation)
The high-level closing panel will discuss how the sustainable finance data landscape must evolve to both regulatory expectations and drive financial decision-making contributing to climate progress in the real economy. Panellists will reflect on the role of official statistics, corporate disclosure, and innovative data sources and solutions discussed in earlier sessions. In doing so, they will consider potential challenges, such as transparency limitations and greenwashing risks, as well as identify potential next steps for non-disclosure-based data to contribute to robust climate-related assessments of finance.
Moderator: Steve MacFeely, OECD Chief Statistician and Director, OECD Statistics and Data Directorate
Speakers:
· Li Ming Ong, Director of Data Management and Statistics Department, Bank Negara Malaysia
· Bruno Tissot, Head of Statistics and Research Support, BIS
· Andreas Rajchl, Director of Green Finance, Austrian Ministry for Climate and Environment
· Sandra Schoonhoven, Group Head Sustainability Expertise, ING Bank
Background
Effective monitoring of climate performance, risks, and opportunities across financial asset classes, portfolios, and institutions requires credible metrics and robust data. Such information is critical to inform investment decisions and design effective policies, including to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement. However, current disclosure initiatives are often too qualitative and incomplete, and access to high-quality and publicly available climate data remains fragmented, thus limiting comparability and scalability of assessments.
To contribute to filling these gaps, innovative data solutions, leveraging new technologies and techniques, are emerging. While promising, they may bring new transparency challenges and greenwashing risks, which need to be better understood. Addressing these trade-offs is critical to building trust and ensuring a credible uptake of these solutions.
This workshop aims to facilitate knowledge sharing on emerging data solutions that support the assessment of progress towards aligning finance with climate goals, and of climate risks and opportunities to the financial system. It will feature discussions of the trade-offs and synergies between such innovative data and more traditional disclosure practices, as well as use cases of climate transparency for financial analysis. The event will bring together experts and practitioners across a range of communities, including climate policymakers, financial regulators and supervisors, investors and financial institutions, researchers, data and assessment methodology providers.
The workshop is hosted by the OECD Research Collaborative on Tracking Finance for Climate Action, based on funding provided by a range of OECD member countries. It is part of a series of workshops related to assessing the consistency of finance with climate policy goals. The workshop is organised in collaboration with the Network on Greening the Financial System (NGFS) in the context of the work of its Expert Network on Data.
Please email researchcollaborative@oecd.org to express interest for in-person participation. We will get back to you based on room capacity. Further details regarding potential virtual participation will be shared at a later stage.
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