1.8.0 (04 / 2025)

Release notes for release 1.8.0.

Release notes 04/2025

Release number: 1.8.0 Release date: 2nd April, 2025 Notes updated: 15th May, 2025 Current state: Stable

The most significant improvements to the Upright model compared to the previous release 1.7.0 are listed below. More information on releases can be found on page Release cycle.

Company coverage

• 11 000 unlisted companies have been added to the extended coverage, increasing the total off-the-shelf company coverage to 57 000. Added companies belong to the scope of PE funds database launched in December 2024.

• A set of companies have been updated to the year 2024. Updates to data set recency continue during Q2 as new company annual reports are published.

SFDR Principal Adverse Impacts (PAI)

• PAI disclosures and estimates have been updated across metrics.

  • More disclosures for year 2024 are being added to latest release 1.8.0 during May and early June as companies publish 2024 sustainability reports .

• A new datasource has been integrated to UNGC/OECD norm violations metric. Financial exclusion tracker database includes exclusion lists by 90+ financial institutions.

• Coverage for GHG intensity, Non-renewable energy share and Energy consumption intensity estimates has been improved significantly. Estimates are calculated for a wider range of private companies.

CSRD double materiality assessment

• DMA database has been launched increasing the off-the-shelf coverage for double materiality assessments to 50,000+ companies.

• An improved materiality results summary view has been published to make it easier to find and access material sustainability matters. This includes:

  • A simplified view with direct visibility into all sustainability matters and their materiality.

  • A toggle to view or hide non-material matters.

• Information about non-material matters has been made visible, providing an opportunity to review why certain matters are not considered material for a company. Explore this demo profile for more.

  • All DMA customers of Upright will have the opportunity to access this information when their results are updated in 2025. Non-materiality information is not automatically shown for previously delivered DMA results.