Nature Action 100 Company Benchmark Assessment Data Usage Terms & Conditions 

By accessing the Company Benchmark data and information published on the Nature Action 100 website, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to the terms and conditions set out below. In particular, please refer to the paragraphs below which detail certain data use restrictions.  

The data and information provided as part of the Company Benchmark assessments by Nature Action 100 can be used by you in a variety of ways – such as to inform your investment research, your corporate engagement and proxy-voting, to analyze your portfolios and publish the outcomes to demonstrate to your stakeholders your delivery of climate policy objectives. However, you must make your own decisions on how to use this data as Nature Action 100 cannot guarantee the accuracy of any data made available. The data and information on the website is not intended to constitute or form the basis of any advice (investment, professional or otherwise), and Nature Action 100 does not accept any liability for any claim or loss arising from any use of, or reliance on, the data or information. Furthermore, Nature Action 100 does not impose any obligations on supporting organizations to use the data provided in any particular way. It is for individual organizations to determine the most appropriate ways in which this data can be helpful to their internal processes.  

Subject to the paragraph above, none of the data or information on the website is permitted to be used in connection with the creation, development, exploitation, calculation, dissemination, distribution or publication of financial indices or analytics products or datasets (including any scoring, indicator, metric or model relating to environmental, climate, carbon, sustainability or other similar considerations) or financial products (being exchange traded funds, mutual funds, undertakings collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS), collective investment schemes, separate managed accounts, listed futures and listed options); and you are prohibited from using any data or information on the website in any of such ways and from permitting or purporting to permit any such use.  

The data referenced on the website and supporting materials is not intended to be used as a “benchmark” as defined in Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on indices used as benchmarks in financial instruments and financial contracts or to measure the performance of investment funds (the European Benchmark Regulation) and The Benchmarks (Amendment and Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the UK Benchmark Regulation).  

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