{"id":726,"date":"2025-04-30T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erasmus.ai\/?p=726"},"modified":"2025-04-30T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:28:17","slug":"elevating-sustainability-leadership-the-cso-awards-partners-with-climategpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erasmus.ai\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Elevating Sustainability Leadership: The CSO Awards partners with ClimateGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CSO Awards<\/a>, held at the World Economic Forum in Davos, is a prestigious event that recognises and celebrates exceptional sustainability leadership among European companies. This year, we are proud to announce a groundbreaking collaboration between the Chief Sustainability Officer Awards<\/strong> and ClimateGPT<\/strong>, starting at the European CSO Awards<\/a> 2025. ClimateGPT is a cutting-edge AI model family, the first foundational models to have been built on climate change provides unparalleled insights into human effects of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Judging Process:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies that are eligible are companies with over $1B in annual revenue, an headcount of over 5K employees, for the Eurpean Awards be headquartered in Europe, and not include Oil & Gas, defence, advisory, etc. Full criteria nominees and winners are listed in the award booklet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ClimateGPT gave us a radical new voice on the panel. As an AI Judge it grounded ESG reports in reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is this difference that charts the path forward for Chief Sustainability Officers and was an invaluable voice in our CSO Awards selection process. We look forward to empowering every CSO on Earth with this intelligence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Harald Neidhardt, Chairman CSO Awards <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The CSO Awards employed a rigorous, science-based model to evaluate and rank the top 100 European companies and CSOs. The judging process involved four dimensions, each with its own set of criteria and data scores. These dimensions included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the judging partners, ClimateGPT played a crucial role in grounding and evaluating the self reported CSO performance against the Erasmus.AI massive corpora of global events. ClimateGPT\u2019s focus was on providing external validation, deeper understanding of the ground truth, and understand the context of ESG Reports. By leveraging ClimateGPT groundbreaking foundational AI models combined with planetary scale datasets platform from Erasmus.AI, ClimateGPT helped to identify areas of alignment and misalignment between companies\u2019 reported sustainability performance and their actual environmental impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Science & Behaviour based Maturity Index<\/strong>: Developed by the Leonardo Centre<\/a> at Imperial College, this index assesses the maturity levels of companies in various sectors and geographies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. ESG Qualitative Rating<\/strong>: Utilizing publicly available ESG Ratings, this dimension evaluates companies that exceed regulatory requirements in their advancements on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Planet & People<\/strong>: This dimension involves an AI-powered analysis of sustainability reports, extracting information on Greenhouse Gas emissions, Biodiversity measures, and Water usage. Additionally, partners Rainforest Partnership<\/a> and Denominator<\/a> conducted in-depth analyses on tropical rainforest ecosystem impact and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) matrix scores.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Survey & Self-Assessment<\/strong>: Based on external ESG Ratings and the Imperial College Maturity Index<\/a>, this dimension involved a survey and self-assessment of the top 100 CSOs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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