Overview
KanataQ Ltd is a UK-based climate and nature risk analytics company established to support decision-making in finance and business. It was founded to address the growing need for robust, decision-useful data on climate-related and environmental risks. The organisation’s work is grounded in applying scientific and economic analysis to real-world financial and strategic contexts. KanataQ’s overall approach centres on translating complex climate and nature data into insights that can be integrated into risk management, strategy, and reporting processes.
Mission and focus areas
KanataQ’s mission is to help organisations understand, quantify and manage climate and nature-related risks and opportunities. Its core focus areas include physical climate risk, transition risk, and the financial impacts of environmental change across assets, portfolios and value chains. The organisation supports sustainable finance and ESG integration by aligning its analytics with widely used climate scenarios and regulatory frameworks. Its work is designed to inform capital allocation, resilience planning, and long-term value creation under different climate pathways.
Structure and governance
KanataQ operates as an independent private company with a defined leadership team overseeing strategy, research and product development. The organisation brings together expertise in climate science, economics, data analytics and finance. Its operating model emphasises collaboration with financial institutions, corporates and other partners to ensure analytical outputs are relevant to practical decision-making. Governance arrangements are structured to support the development of proprietary methodologies and client-facing tools.
Programs and offerings
KanataQ provides climate and nature risk analytics, models and data products tailored for financial institutions, investors and corporates. Its offerings include scenario-based assessments of physical and transition risks, asset-level and portfolio-level analysis, and forward-looking metrics aligned with climate disclosure requirements. The organisation also develops tools and technical insights to support regulatory reporting, stress testing and strategic planning. These outputs are designed to be integrated into existing risk, ESG and sustainability frameworks, making them particularly relevant for finance and sustainability practitioners seeking applied, data-driven analysis.
Our mission is to accelerate the global transition to sustainability by making it easy for businesses and investors to find and engage with the best sustainability solution providers, while also delivering real-time market intelligence to make the entire sustainability space more efficient.
