ClimateBert

ClimateBert – AI powered climate-related corporate disclosure analytics

Background

For assessing companies’ climate change risk, stakeholders cannot rely solely on quantitative data ( e.g. GHG emissions). The narrative, mainly available in text form, that corresponds to the quantitative data is at least as important, if not even more. However, for stakeholders who need to track several hundred companies, manual analysis is out of the question. They depend on a scalable, consistent, and efficient approach.

Objective

The project started in 2019 with the overall aim to make climate-related unstructured textual information from various sources available for research, policy-making, financial supervisory authorities, and financial analysts. At its core, this involves quantifying qualitative data, such as TCFD reporting by companies, for further analysis. While the accounting and finance literature often relies on rule-based or simple machine learning approaches for this task, we use state-of-the-art deep learning approaches such as Transformer for this purpose.

People

ClimateBert is a joint research project of:

• Julia Anna Bingler from CEP (former PhD student at ETH Zürich),
• Mathias Kraus from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg,
• Markus Leippold from University of Zürich,
• Nicolas Webersinke from FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Project Website

climatebert.ai

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