The number of investors who deliberately apply an ESG lens to investing is growing rapidly worldwide as more come to realize the risks of separating such issues from business fundamentals. S&P Global Ratings' ESG research, insight, and analysis help investors gain a better understanding of companies’ strategy, purpose, and management quality.
Annually The ESG industry report cards summarize the ESG factors material to the credit ratings in that sector. Each report card also provides extracts of the ESG sections from our credit analyses of the largest companies in the sector, as well as of those that are more exposed or better positioned in our view than peers.
Monthly This publication provides data and insights on changes to global scale ratings across practices (or high level industries) for which ESG factors have been a key driver. Additional links to ESG research reports are also provided.
Ongoing Key sustainability factors identify the most material environmental and social risks assessed in S&P Global Ratings’ ESG Evaluations. Materiality of those risks are assessed across the industry’s value chain and are reflected in the weighting of environmental and social factors. In addition, the quantitative indicators used to assess a company’s performance relative to its industry peers on each of those factors are provided.