Research Areas
Research Areas
The research conducted within our initiative covers a wide range of topics and projects, focused on addressing the challenges and opportunities in sustainable finance through the use of NLP techniques.
Our research activities include, amongst others:
Net Zero Targets and Transition Pathways
- Identification of relevant disclosure items and compliance with disclosure standards
- Examining ambition and tracking progress
- Enabling investors and financial supervisors to monitor the quality of plans, identify inconsistencies, and track implementation progress
Greenwashing
- Comparing corporate disclosures with real activities
- Identifying discrepancies and inconsistencies between sustainability claims and actions
- Ensuring greater transparency and accountability in the sustainable finance sector
Climate Litigation
- Making NLP-informed legal cases
- Analyzing legal documents and extracting relevant information to identify patterns, trends, and strategies
- Strengthening legal arguments in support of climate-related lawsuits
Regulatory Compliance and Supervision
- Automating the assessment of disclosure compliance with regulations and reporting requirements
- Identifying inconsistencies to inform supervisory dialogues with financial institutions
- Informing prudential regulation and financial stability supervision
Science in Finance
- Developing NLP techniques to make complex scientific data accessible and digestible for non-scientists
- Integrating climate science and biodiversity research into financial decision-making
- Facilitating the incorporation of climate pathways and nature-related issues into investment strategies and risk assessments
Chatclimate.ai
Our models and applications are available on chatclimate.ai.
The homepage provides users access to climate and sustainability-related chatbots and our pre-trained language models.
Amongst others, users get access to the chatbot “chatclimate”, which is a chatbot grounded on the latest IPCC reports to make climate science accessible to a broader audience.
Users also have access to the ClimateBert Language models, and the ClimateBert classification layers.
With our research projects evolving, additional resources are continuously added to the homepage.