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Sustainability Analytics for Corporate Issuers

Benchmark your sustainability practices against your peers

Institutional investors are increasingly incorporating extra-financial factors into their evaluation of corporate issuers. Among these factors are the risks posed by an issuer’s sustainability practices, including the transparency and completeness of disclosure with respect to environmental and social issues. As sustainability becomes more important to mainstream investors, corporate issuers need to understand how their sustainability disclosures are evaluated, how they compare with peers and how to provide guidance to their management and board.

To meet these needs, RiskMetrics Group developed Sustainability Analytics for Corporate Issuers. Based on the Sustainability Risk Reports database, Sustainability Analytics enables corporate issuers to evaluate their sustainability performance on over 160 individual factors, across 5 major subcategories, including Climate Change, Environmental, Sustainability Oversight, Labor and Human Rights and Ethics. In addition, issuers can benchmark against industry peers on a global basis, as well as leverage sustainability data to provide insight and guidance to senior management and the board.

Benefits of Sustainability Analytics for Corporate Issuers

Using Sustainability Analytics' detailed peer comparisons and search capabilities, you can:

Easily monitor your overall sustainability score and sub-scores relative to your industry group and other peers on a real-time basis
Gain insight into peer companies’ sustainability practices and how they compare to yours on a factor-by-factor basis
Leverage the underlying data to help guide discussions about sustainability with your management team, board of directors and investors
Augment the process by which you evaluate business partners or suppliers by incorporating sustainability factors as a measure of risk

In addition to Sustainability Analytics, we offer a free tool to help you check your Sustainability Risk Report score and verify the data used to compile it at any time. Since we know how important the accuracy of this data is to you and to the institutional investors who rely on it, we encourage you to use the free Sustainability Data Verification tool to check your data regularly. Sustainability Data Verification is available at no cost to any corporate issuer covered in the Sustainability Risk Report database. To obtain a log-in, simply contact our corporate solutions support team at (301) 556-0570 or email us.

In accordance with our Business Practices, this solution is delivered by ISS Corporate Services, Inc. (ICS), a wholly owned subsidiary of RiskMetrics Group, Inc.