ICE Climate Partners with Dun & Bradstreet on GSE Data

ICE has partnered with Dun & Bradstreet, who has built up one of the largest private company databases, to add to the climate and environmental, social and governance data that the group already provides across global public companies, U.S. municipalities and fixed income securities. Chris Edmonds, president of ICE’s fixed income & data services, said in a story in Markets Media news. “By combining Dun & Bradstreet’s business intelligence, supply chain and asset location data with ICE’s geospatial and climate capabilities, and leveraging ICE’s distribution channels, this new service will offer the broader investment community a single source of climate data for virtually all business entities globally.” In 2022 ICE acquired Urgentem, which provides global corporate emissions and climate transition data. As a result, ICE’s geospatial intelligence platform, which incorporates satellite imagery, and its climate data models already cover multi-asset class transition emissions and physical climate data on over 110 million US properties, global public companies, US municipalities and more than 4.2 million fixed income securities, including corporates, municipals, sovereigns and mortgage-backed securities. Larry Lawrence, head of ICE Climate said that all the Dun & Bradstreet data will be integrated by the end of this year. ICE Climate provides data and analytics that help quantify investment impacts posed by transition and physical climate risks, such as extreme weather events.