ESG analytics platform ESG.ai has entered into a strategic partnership with climate data infrastructure firm Rho Impact to enhance climate investment intelligence for European companies, banks, and asset managers.

The collaboration integrates Rho Impact’s Koi asset-level climate impact data into ESG.ai’s analytics platform, enabling financial institutions to access auditable and investment-grade insights on the decarbonization potential of climate technologies and low-carbon solutions.

The move comes as European regulators tighten sustainability disclosure requirements under frameworks such as the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), and the emerging Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard for SMEs(VSME). These regulations are raising expectations for transparency and verification around corporate climate claims and investment decisions.

By combining ESG.ai’s analytics environment with Rho Impact’s climate data infrastructure, the partnership aims to address a critical market gap: structured, traceable datasets capable of supporting both regulatory disclosure and capital allocation decisions.

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Through the integration, ESG.ai clients will be able to:

• Quantify the forward-looking emissions reduction potential of climate technologies
• Compare climate impact across portfolios, companies, and solutions
• Strengthen embodied carbon reporting and climate-related disclosures
• Support investment decisions using auditable and traceable data methodologies

“The EU has led the global movement toward a sustainable, resilient economy for years,” said Kelly Kirsch, Director General of ESG.ai Europe. “As regulatory requirements across SFDR, CSRD, and CBAM raise the bar on what climate claims must be able to withstand, our clients need data that is not just comprehensive but auditable and traceable. Rho Impact brings exactly that.”

Noah Miller, Co-Founder and Chief Advisory Officer at Rho Impact, said the partnership reflects growing demand among European financial institutions for higher-quality climate data.

“Europe is where climate data requirements are most sophisticated and where the cost of opaque, unauditable data is highest,” Miller said. “ESG.ai has built the client relationships and platform presence to meet that market. We are proud to bring Koi’s asset-level forecasting into that ecosystem and help European institutions make climate investment decisions they can genuinely defend.”

The partnership underscores a broader shift in sustainable finance toward decision-grade climate analytics, as investors increasingly require forward-looking assessments of technology performance and emissions reduction potential rather than relying solely on historical ESG disclosures.

As Europe continues positioning itself as a global hub for sustainable finance, platforms capable of delivering auditable climate investment intelligence are expected to play a growing role in supporting capital allocation toward credible climate solutions.

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