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EDM Council Highlights Challenges to ESG Data Delivery

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Data management industry group the EDM Council has outlined proposals it says will make delivering ESG data easier for rating providers and data aggregators (RPDAs). In the New York-based council’s second report into managing ESG data it said that RPDAs were experiencing specific challenges with ESG data that were not present in their other activities. In the report, the EDM Council identifies 11 challenges that need to be overcome, including a lack of harmonisation in reporting standards and gaps in the data record.

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