Private Company Coverage
Australia's Largest ESG & Climate Dataset for Private Companies
The missing layer in Australian ESG reporting. NCED provides what global datasets don't: comprehensive coverage of Australian private companies.
The Missing Layer in Australian ESG Reporting
Most ESG and climate risk datasets were built for listed companies. That works well if your organisation only needs visibility over the ASX 200.
But mandatory climate disclosure requirements such as AASB S1 and AASB S2 are changing the landscape. Businesses are now expected to understand not only their own operational impacts, but also the risks embedded within their suppliers, customers, portfolios and value chains.
The challenge is that the overwhelming majority of Australian businesses are private companies.
Traditional ESG Providers Struggle With
- SMEs and private companies
- Regional businesses
- Non-listed entities
- Supply chain participants
- Lower and middle-market counterparties
This creates a critical visibility gap for banks, insurers, corporates and institutional investors attempting to assess climate exposure across their wider ecosystems.
Why Private Company ESG Data Matters
Australian private company coverage is extremely valuable for organisations managing climate and ESG risk across complex ecosystems.
Scope 3 Reporting
Most emissions sit outside direct operations within suppliers, logistics providers, contractors and outsourced services.
Supplier Mapping
Understand the resilience and climate exposure of thousands of private businesses across your supply chain.
SME Risk Assessment
Analyse climate and ESG risk across SME counterparties that lack formal sustainability reporting.
Lending Portfolios
Visibility over sector exposure, physical climate vulnerability and transition risk for lower and middle-market counterparties.
Built for the Real Australian Economy
NCED focuses on the part of the economy that many global ESG providers overlook: private Australian businesses.
Using a combination of commercial data, ESG indicators, climate risk signals and machine learning, NCED enables organisations to assess ESG and climate-related risk at scale across millions of Australian entities.
- Commercial data integration
- ESG indicators and signals
- Climate risk modelling
- Industry intelligence
- Emissions estimation
- Entity resolution technology
- Machine learning analysis
Beyond Self-Disclosure
Unlike traditional ESG models that rely heavily on company self-disclosure, NCED is designed to support analysis where formal sustainability reporting may not yet exist.
This creates a significantly broader and more operationally useful dataset for real-world climate risk assessment.
Structured
Repeatable analysis
Scalable
Millions of entities
Scope 3 Reporting at Scale
For many large organisations, the majority of emissions sit outside direct operations. They exist within suppliers, logistics providers, contractors, franchisees and outsourced services.
Many of these businesses are SMEs with little or no formal ESG reporting capability.
Without access to structured private-company climate and ESG data, Scope 3 analysis becomes fragmented, manual, survey-driven and difficult to scale.
Moving Beyond Questionnaires
NCED helps organisations move from static questionnaires toward structured, repeatable and scalable data-led analysis.
- Supplier analysis
- Portfolio assessment
- Onboarding workflows
- Risk management
- Mandatory reporting
Operational Use Cases
NCED supports decision-making across risk, sustainability, compliance, procurement, strategy and governance teams.
Supplier Analysis
Assess ESG and climate risk across supply chain ecosystems at scale.
Portfolio Assessment
Analyse climate exposure across lending portfolios and customer bases.
Onboarding Workflows
Integrate ESG-informed screening into new customer and supplier onboarding.
Risk Management
Build internal climate and ESG risk models without relying on self-disclosure.
Australian-Specific Coverage
- Bushfire exposure mapping
- Flood risk assessment
- Extreme weather variability
- Drought condition analysis
- Geographic concentration risk
- Resource-intensive industry coverage
Designed for Australian Conditions
Australia presents unique climate and economic challenges including bushfire exposure, flood risk, extreme weather variability and resource-intensive industries.
NCED is designed specifically around Australian market conditions and regulatory expectations, incorporating Australian-specific business identifiers, industry classifications, climate risk methodologies and commercial data structures.
This enables more relevant and practical analysis than generic global ESG datasets.
Financial Risk & Portfolio Exposure
Climate risk is increasingly being viewed through a financial lens. Banks, insurers and lenders require visibility over sector exposure, physical climate vulnerability, transition risk, emissions intensity and geographic concentration.
However, much of the Australian SME market lacks disclosed emissions, formal sustainability reporting or structured ESG assessments.
NCED bridges this gap by combining commercial and climate intelligence into a single integrated framework.
Industry Applications
Supporting AASB S1 & S2 Readiness
The introduction of mandatory climate disclosure standards in Australia is accelerating demand for scalable ESG data infrastructure. NCED supports organisations preparing for climate disclosure, supplier transparency, portfolio analysis and governance reporting requirements.
The dataset is designed to support repeatable and auditable workflows aligned with evolving Australian reporting expectations.
A Different Approach to ESG Data
The future of ESG and climate reporting depends on visibility beyond listed markets. Private businesses form the operational backbone of the Australian economy, yet historically they have remained difficult to analyse at scale.
NCED was built to change that. By combining climate intelligence, ESG indicators and commercial data into a unified Australian dataset, NCED helps organisations better understand the risks, exposures and dependencies that exist across the real economy.