The Upright Project (UP) offers the world’s first open-access platform for impact data which enables smarter decision-making for investors and companies by measuring the sum of a company’s positive and negative impacts on the environment, health, society, and knowledge.

Upright’s AI-based impact data engine is the first to contextualize the disclosures and sustainability targets of companies with estimates of the EU taxonomy alignment, UN Sustainable Development Goals, and Upright’s proprietary net impact quantifications. The data used is gathered from the world’s largest open-access scientific database (200m+ scientific articles), company disclosures, market research reports, Eurostat, OECD, and other databases.

The business model is based on selling licenses for more in-depth results to decision-makers through measuring progress, setting objectives, and communicating results, thereby offering a holistic end-to-end approach. Customers and partners already include investors such as the financial services corporation Nasdaq.

UP’s mission is to incentivize companies to optimize their net impacts. Since companies are the major source of emissions (>70% of the world’s GHG emissions since 1988 are from only 100 companies) such a move has far-reaching implications. Enabling powerful stakeholders, from boards of directors, and investors to talent and consumers, to understand the net impact of companies and make informed decisions on which companies to support will lead to a step-change in companies’ actions and a wider systemic change in how we perceive companies` net value to society.

See White Paper here