The scores of more than 9,000 companies, representing 95% of global market capitalisation, are shown. The performance-based scores range from 0-100, based on more than 1,000 data points. They include assessment of both a company’s ESG ‘health’ and its ability to deal with future risks and challenges.
Data is collected both from public sources and the companies themselves, through the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment. Peer comparisons, historical changes and industry specific factors are taken into account.
S&P Global says that the service, the first of its kind, is based on market demand for increased transparency of ESG performance and that it offers users the widest coverage of scores currently available. The scores are a key factor for selecting companies for the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
As well as indicating scores, the page provides access to a range of S&P Global services and products relating to topics including energy transition, risk management, Paris alignment, and carbon earnings at risk. Martina Cheung, head of ESG at S&P Global, said that with growing interest in ESG reporting standards are evolving and market participants across every industry are looking for reliable and consistent information.
She commented: "As one of the world's most trusted data and analytics providers, we are committed to providing transparent and comparable insights. The launch of publicly available ESG scores will help to increase dialogue and inform decisions for all market participants."
The ESG webpage gives access to the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook, a comprehensive publication providing in-depth analysis on corporate sustainability and to ESG data from S&P Dow Jones Indices, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Global Platts, S&P Global Ratings and S&P Global Trucost.
S&P Global is a provider of credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics in the global capital and commodity markets. It has approximately 21,000 employees in 35 countries.