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The CBF Score, created by Iceberg Data Lab, represents a major leap forward in the way institutional investors, asset managers, and corporate sustainability teams measure and manage biodiversity-related financial risk.
By partnering with Crux Data, this cutting-edge environmental dataset is now easier than ever to discover, access, and integrate directly into analytical workflows - with no infrastructure headaches or onboarding delays.
Biodiversity loss is no longer just a distant ecological concern - it’s a pressing systemic risk to the global economy. From disrupted supply chains to regulatory liabilities, companies are increasingly exposed to the consequences of degrading ecosystems. Yet, quantifying this exposure in a structured, comparable way has remained a major challenge.
Iceberg’s CBF Score changes that. Rooted in robust life-cycle assessment science and aligned with leading regulatory frameworks such as the TNFD, SFDR, and CSRD, the CBF Score distills complex environmental modeling into a simple, decision-useful metric. It captures the biodiversity footprint - the land and water impact - of companies across sectors and geographies, making it easier to benchmark biodiversity risks and opportunities across a portfolio or value chain.
What makes the CBF Score truly valuable is its combination of credibility and usability. Iceberg’s methodology is backed by rigorous environmental science and refined through partnerships with global financial institutions. It covers over 8,500 companies and extends through upstream supply chains to provide a comprehensive footprint.
But the real innovation lies in the signal’s accessibility: instead of requiring domain expertise in environmental modeling, Iceberg offers a single, intuitive score - distilled from detailed inputs, yet immediately usable by financial analysts, risk managers, and ESG teams alike.
Crux’s role in this collaboration is to break down barriers to adoption. In today’s data-driven economy, finding and acquiring high-quality environmental data is only half the battle - getting it where it needs to be, when it’s needed, and in a format that works is what unlocks real value.
Crux makes external data ingestion effortless. The CBF Score is now available pre-integrated into Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, and Google Cloud environments - model-ready, fully versioned, and refresh-synced. Crux handles all the heavy lifting: file transformations, metadata management, pipeline maintenance, SLA monitoring, and data documentation. This means ESG teams and quants can spend less time wrangling data and more time using it to generate insight.
As with all Crux-delivered data, users get:
As global disclosure regulations intensify, from the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) to the upcoming Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), firms need to demonstrate not just environmental commitment - but also data-driven accountability. Biodiversity, once the forgotten pillar of ESG, is now squarely in focus.
By combining Iceberg’s CBF Score with Crux’s delivery platform, financial institutions can accelerate their biodiversity risk assessments, regulatory reporting, and sustainability analytics - without rearchitecting their data stack or workflows.
Both Iceberg and Crux are driven by the belief that credible data, responsibly sourced and reliably delivered, can shift financial markets toward sustainability. For Iceberg, that means pioneering environmental impact metrics grounded in science and sincerity. For Crux, it means removing the friction between data and the people who need it.
By making the CBF Score instantly available across the cloud, we’re giving the market a tool it can trust - and one it can use - to factor biodiversity into everyday decision-making.
To explore Iceberg Data Lab’s CBF Score request a trial or sample through your preferred data marketplace.
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About Iceberg Data Lab
Iceberg Data Lab is a leading provider of environmental impact data, offering science-based metrics that empower financial institutions to quantify and manage their exposure to nature-related risks. Their Corporate Biodiversity Footprint (CBF) Score is a pioneering measure of corporate biodiversity impact across value chains. Contact their team here for more information.
About Crux Data
Crux is a pioneering data integration company that provides reliable, model ready external data solutions for the financial services industry. By bridging the gap between data suppliers and consumers, Crux ensures that critical financial models and decisions are supported by accurate, reproducible data. For more information, schedule a demo with us, or contact our team directly here.
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