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Matt Ross

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Matt Ross is the founder of MAATTR Intelligence, operating in the missing layer between the spreadsheet and the substrate, where biological risk accumulates before capital can see it and before any existing framework is built to price it. MAATTR works upstream of pre-capital commitment. At the point where biological condition, not market signal, determines the outcome. Matt has spent fifteen years living inside smallholder communities across Southeast Asia. He was ranked among illuminem's Top 10 Most Read Thought Leaders in Nature.

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Matt Ross

The unknown exposure

Illuminem Voices
Sustainable Finance · Agriculture

From 30 December, every large company placing palm, cocoa, coffee or rubber on the EU market must hold the coordinates of each plot behind it. Those coordinates will sit over the least observed productive land on earth: in 2025, 92% of Asia's catastrophe losses were uninsured. Beneath both numbers sits a third exposure, the condition of the ground itself, which no instrument in the disclosure stack was built to see

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Matt Ross

The other El Niño
 

Social Responsibility · Environmental Sustainability

The other El Niño

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