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Summary & introduction
Ambienta, one of Europe’s largest asset managers focussing specifically on sustainability-related investments, uses KEY ESG to collect high-quality, granular ESG data across 12 global portfolio companies, reducing reporting time by 65%. The platform reflects each company’s operational reality, enabling entity-level insights that directly inform value-creation strategies. By empowering over 300 users to build in-house ESG capability, KEY ESG strengthens portfolio engagement and drives measurable sustainability impact.
The Challenge: Complex, high-quality ESG data needs across a diverse portfolio with limited sustainability resources
As world-leaders in sustainability performance, Ambienta needs to collect and analyse high-quality ESG data across its portfolio of 23 global companies. Their ambition to be sustainability leaders requires accurate, granular data that reveals insights about sustainability activities at the single-entity level. Ambienta also wanted to foster stronger relationships with portfolio companies by making ESG reporting a value-adding process, not just a compliance exercise. They needed a solution that would encourage in-house knowledge building, support a robust audit process, and provide insight that portfolio companies could use internally for their own strategic and operational decisions. Up until this point, they had relied primarily on spreadsheets which had resulted in inefficiencies and inaccuracies and created bottlenecks for Ambienta’s in-house ESG team. They were looking for a solution which enabled them to collect accurate, comparable, and auditable data from 23 portfolio companies and over 300 users at the single-entity level.
KEY ESG's solution & Ambienta's testimonial
KEY ESG's user-friendly platform enables Ambienta to:
- Reduce time spent on reporting by 65%
- Reflect the operational reality of each portfolio company to drive actionable insights
- Empower portfolio companies to build in-house expertise and gain buy-in for sustainability initiatives
Francesco Anichini, ESG Manager at Ambienta said:
“KEY ESG’s platform allows us to embed ESG knowledge directly within our portfolio companies, without having to hire sustainability experts at the portfolio company level. Instead of relying on external consultants or opaque calculations, existing teams understand their data and can trace every figure back to source. That transparency and understanding is vital – without it you cannot build credible and scalable sustainability action plans and it is hard to create ownership at the portfolio company level for ESG outcomes if teams do not understand what is being measured.”
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Summary & introduction
Ambienta, one of Europe’s largest asset managers focussing specifically on sustainability-related investments, uses KEY ESG to collect high-quality, granular ESG data across 12 global portfolio companies, reducing reporting time by 65%. The platform reflects each company’s operational reality, enabling entity-level insights that directly inform value-creation strategies. By empowering over 300 users to build in-house ESG capability, KEY ESG strengthens portfolio engagement and drives measurable sustainability impact.
The Challenge: Complex, high-quality ESG data needs across a diverse portfolio with limited sustainability resources
As world-leaders in sustainability performance, Ambienta needs to collect and analyse high-quality ESG data across its portfolio of 23 global companies. Their ambition to be sustainability leaders requires accurate, granular data that reveals insights about sustainability activities at the single-entity level. Ambienta also wanted to foster stronger relationships with portfolio companies by making ESG reporting a value-adding process, not just a compliance exercise. They needed a solution that would encourage in-house knowledge building, support a robust audit process, and provide insight that portfolio companies could use internally for their own strategic and operational decisions. Up until this point, they had relied primarily on spreadsheets which had resulted in inefficiencies and inaccuracies and created bottlenecks for Ambienta’s in-house ESG team. They were looking for a solution which enabled them to collect accurate, comparable, and auditable data from 23 portfolio companies and over 300 users at the single-entity level.
KEY ESG's solution & Ambienta's testimonial
KEY ESG's user-friendly platform enables Ambienta to:
- Reduce time spent on reporting by 65%
- Reflect the operational reality of each portfolio company to drive actionable insights
- Empower portfolio companies to build in-house expertise and gain buy-in for sustainability initiatives
Francesco Anichini, ESG Manager at Ambienta said:
“KEY ESG’s platform allows us to embed ESG knowledge directly within our portfolio companies, without having to hire sustainability experts at the portfolio company level. Instead of relying on external consultants or opaque calculations, existing teams understand their data and can trace every figure back to source. That transparency and understanding is vital – without it you cannot build credible and scalable sustainability action plans and it is hard to create ownership at the portfolio company level for ESG outcomes if teams do not understand what is being measured.”
