Using climate and ESG data where decisions are made
Climate and ESG data is only valuable when it can be applied to real decisions.
For many organisations, the challenge is no longer whether climate risk matters. Mandatory reporting frameworks, including AASB S2, have made climate-related financial disclosure a formal requirement for many Australian entities. The broader expectation is now clear: organisations must be able to identify, assess, manage and explain climate-related risks and opportunities in a way that is consistent, defensible and repeatable.
This creates a practical execution challenge.
Climate risk does not sit neatly inside a single function. It affects sustainability teams preparing disclosures, risk teams assessing exposure, credit teams evaluating borrowers, procurement teams managing suppliers, and executives seeking a clear view of organisational resilience.
The NCED is designed to support these workflows by connecting climate, catastrophe, ESG and transition-risk indicators to real-world business entities. It helps organisations move from fragmented data collection to structured analysis across customers, suppliers, portfolios and sectors.
Most organisations are being asked to answer questions they cannot yet answer consistently
These questions cannot be answered properly using static spreadsheets, one-off surveys or isolated ESG datasets. They require a repeatable data foundation.
What the NCED Enables
NCED supports six core use cases:
Climate Reporting
Helping organisations build a stronger data foundation for mandatory climate disclosure, including physical risk, transition risk, Scope 3 context, governance reporting and audit-ready evidence.
Supply Chain Risk
Helping organisations identify where climate, catastrophe and ESG exposure exists across suppliers, including geographic concentration, sector vulnerability and continuity risk.
Portfolio Analytics
Helping banks, insurers, investors and large enterprises understand climate and ESG exposure across entire populations of customers, suppliers, counterparties or investments.
Credit Risk Integration
Helping financial institutions incorporate climate and ESG risk indicators into credit, lending, onboarding, monitoring and portfolio management workflows.
Insurance
Helping insurers assess, monitor and report on climate and ESG exposure across policyholder portfolios, supporting underwriting, accumulation management and regulatory disclosure.
Regulatory Reporting
Supporting climate and ESG regulatory reporting requirements with structured data, including TCFD, ISSB-aligned disclosures, Australian mandatory climate reporting and EU sustainability frameworks.
Why These Use Cases Matter Together
These use cases are connected.
The NCED is designed to support this progression: from compliance, to insight, to operational capability.