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ISS Tool Aims to Tame Labels and Standards Tangle
ISS ESG has launched a tool that the data provider hopes will help asset managers and owners navigate the complex field of sustainability reporting labels and standards. The new product, which became operational this month, will enable clients to comply with the reporting frameworks of standards setters the world over. In its initial iteration, the…
EDM Council Highlights Challenges to ESG Data Delivery
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….
Arabesque Deal Seeks to Bring Sustainability to Property Sector
ABG Real Estate Group has bought a minority stake in data vendor and asset manager Arabesque as part of a strategy to create ESG solutions for the property market. Together the companies hope to introduce ESG measures and benchmarks for the construction and real estate sectors. Building firm Goldbeck has also invested into the partnership….
ESG Reporting Has Come a Long Way, but Has Further to Go
Huge steps have been made in recent years to bring ESG reporting standards up the level of reported financial information – but there’s a long way to go yet. A shortage of data, a lack of harmonisation on standards and the sheer number of vendors are among the key challenges facing the industry as regulators…
The View in 2022 – Another Pivotal Year in ESG
In many ways 2021 was a watershed year for ESG. The European Union’s implementation of Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) began in earnest and other regulators around the world – especially in the UK – indicated they may soon follow suit. The COP26 United Nations climate summit later in the year provided a galvanising impetus…
RepRisk Opens up its Methodology to Inspire ESG Transparency
RepRisk’s publication of the methodology behind its ESG data is hoped to encourage competitors to follow suit and bring greater transparency to the sustainable investment space. The Zurich-based data vendor made the plumbing behind its services available on its website in the past week. Now available to the public are its Jupyter notebooks, which can…
Persefoni Sees Real-Time Emissions Data Service as Game Changer
Carbon accounting startup Persefoni is building out an emissions auditing platform it says will give real-time visibility into companies’ climate risks. The platform will immediately add data from each corporate transaction and event, giving investors a minute-by-minute account of their portfolio companies’ emissions, Arizona-based Persefoni said. Its climate management and accounting platform (CMAP) uses artificial…
Corlytics, First Derivative Win Funding for ‘Groundbreaking’ ESG Taxonomy Project
RegTech provider Corlytics and managed services group First Derivative have received funding to jointly develop an open-source ESG taxonomy mapping project. The companies received a “reasonably considerable amount” from Irish advocacy group Sustainable Finance Ireland (SFI). The money will help build out what the companies describe as the world’s first open-source taxonomy tool. Once compiled,…
ASEAN Draws Up First ESG Taxonomy Draft
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has published its first draft taxonomy for ESG reporting, saying the move was necessary as many of its member states were on the climate-risk frontline. The Jakarta, Indonesia-headquartered trade bloc said the proposal would introduce “a common language across ASEAN for financing sustainable economic activities”. A region-wide framework…
EFRAG Names 71 Experts to Create Standards Proposals
The body charged with drafting sustainability reporting standards for the European Union’s regulators has put in place a team of 71 experts to begin the process. The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) appointed experts from finance, academia, industry, NGOs and the small business sector. They will sit on 11 Expert Working Groups that have…