FAQs
Company
RS Metrics is a geospatial analytics company that provides asset-level data and insights on environmental, climate, and physical risks. The products like AssetTracker, ESGSignals®, and proprietary geospatial AI tools that deliver” with “Custom Event-Driven Monitoring (CEDM) and they can provide real-time insights for businesses, investors, and regulators.
RS Metrics serves various industries, including finance, real estate, utilities, energy, industrials, materials, consumer discretionary, information technology, and health care.
RS Metrics combines satellite imagery, machine learning, and geospatial analytics to deliver precise asset-level sustainability data. This bottom-up approach provides more granularity, accuracy, and real-time insights than conventional top-down ECP assessments.
By continuously validating data using satellite analytics, ground-based sensors, and AI models, RS Metrics ensures that the data is accurate, updated regularly, and ready for decision-making and regulatory compliance.
TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures) is a global initiative that provides a framework for companies to report and act on evolving nature-related risks.
RS Metrics provides asset-level biodiversity and environmental data aligned with TNFD’s disclosure requirements, helping companies assess and report on their nature-related risks.
ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks, and Exposure) is a tool for assessing how environmental change affects economic activities. RS Metrics’ ESGSignals® ENCORE builds on this by integrating high-resolution asset-level data into its framework for advanced risk assessment.
Through ESGSignals®, RS Metrics provides a variety of biodiversity metrics such as proximity to Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), Protected Areas (PAs), and IUCN Red List species. This helps organizations identify biodiversity risks and comply with disclosure frameworks like TNFD and SFDR.
Products
ESGSignals® provides insights into asset-level environmental, climate, and physical risk (ECP). It enables businesses and investors to assess their operations’ sustainability performance and environmental footprint
It delivers detailed insights into environmental risks and opportunities, supporting compliance, sustainability strategy development, and risk management across sectors.
It combines geospatial data, satellite imagery, physical risk datasets, and structured/unstructured environmental data to produce actionable insights.
The data is updated regularly based on the metric and data source, ensuring users have timely and relevant information for decisions.
The product is helpful for:
- Corporates Asset Managers (hedge funds, portfolio managers, private equity)
- Rating Providers
- Index Providers
- Data Providers
- Regulatory Reporting Bodies (e.g., SFDR, NFRD)
- Green Bond & Loan Assessors
- Financial Institutions
- Academics
Yes, ESGSignals can be tailored to specific industries such as finance, energy, agriculture, IT,, and more, providing sector-specific insights and indicators.
It enhances financial reporting by integrating asset-level ESG data into ENCORE’s structure, supporting risk identification, investment analysis, and regulatory reporting with greater precision and transparency
The new ISIC Industry Classification enhances the granularity and precision of materiality ratings within ESGSignals®. This helps clients better understand and manage their environmental dependencies, contributing to more informed decision-making
ESG, ECP & Sustainability
Environmental, Climate, and Physical risk (or ECP) data provides information about the influence of climate and environmental processes on businesses. RS Metrics’ products, such as ESGSignals®, supply ECP insights that can help businesses understand whether any of their locations are likely to experience issues such as floods, droughts, etc. The company’s extensive list of ECP metrics consists of the key types of factors that can affect company workflows.
ESG investing is a strategy that considers environmental, social, and governance factors alongside financial metrics to assess risk and growth potential in investment portfolios. It supports sustainable and ethical investing decisions.
By leveraging tools like ESGSignals® to identify environmental risks, optimize resource use, comply with regulations, and improve brand reputation, companies can reduce costs, avoid regulatory penalties, and attract ESG-focused investors, ultimately boosting ROI.
