Laying Foundations for Scalable Markets in Trusted & Granular Green Data Reporting

The need for trusted, verifiable, and granular green data reporting has never been greater, with data becoming essential for business intelligence, optimisation, and new business models that enable firms to differentiate themselves and their offering.

A 2024 Point Zero Forum Roundtable brought together stakeholders from the investment community, industry, government, and specialised actors in digital infrastructure to share progress, provide insights, and focus on the challenges to forging a more open and interoperable market for green data, while creating mechanisms that:

• enable us to establish and track provenance of;

• trust the integrity of; and

• control access to data across different organisations, geographies, and value chains.

Stakeholders specified the root causes of poor data quality hindering reporting efforts and shaped a preliminary proposal for trusted, scalable market arrangements to mobilise granular, machine-issued data for ESG indicators and financial market innovations.

For further insights, read the FutureMatters publication Laying Foundations for Scalable Markets in Trusted & Granular Green Data Reporting.

This document is co-published by Global Finance & Technology Network Limited (GFTN) together with Dataswyft, Linked Things and Naera. It is part of FutureMatters, GFTN’s platform for thought leaders, practitioners, and industry players to share their insights on emerging opportunities and challenges in today's world.

The 2024 Point Zero Forum Roundtable was part of a series of public-private forums and initiatives – hosted by the GFTN (formerly known as Elevandi) – that seek to boost collaboration and innovation, ultimately to transition towards a carbon neutral economy and pursue related Sustainable Development Goals.