As client and investor expectations grow for financial institutions to integrate sustainability considerations such as environment, social and governance (ESG) factors into their lending, investment and product portfolios, navigating this fast-moving space can be a challenge. Sustainalytics can supports the world leading banks to advance its approach in sustainable finance by providing valuable insights and award-winning expertise into activities that can be considering impactful and material.
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Tracking the Progress on Gender Equality through Sustainable Finance
Future-Proofing Supply Chains: Supply Chain Sustainability and Key Trends in 2021
Our Solution
We’ve helped leading financial institutions build their sustainable banking, lending and finance frameworks. Our approach provides the groundwork to help you develop new or improve existing sustainable banking products that are increasingly being requested by clients and shareholders.
Developing the Guide and Framework
Develop guidance to identify fixed income investments and lending activities that are considered sustainable.
Annual Updates
Ensure your internal guide includes most up to date insights on sustainability considerations and market expectations.
Annual Usage Review
Build trust with your stakeholders that your transactions are classified as sustainable according to the guide and provide an annual assurance statement.
Product Review
Review new products to ensure your sustainable finance portfolio is aligned to the guide, signaling to stakeholders your diligence in building you sustainable finance portfolio.
Key Benefits
Enable your organization to identify transactions with positive ESG impacts.
Easily track your sustainable finance commitments and organizational goals.
Integrate sustainability more broadly across client and product portfolios.
Develop and launch new sustainable and green products faster to meet client demand.
Improve market best practices and meet investor expectations.
Be a leader in the sustainable finance space amongst clients.
Why Sustainalytics?
A Single Market Standard
Consistent approach to ESG assessments across the investment spectrum.
Award-Winning Research and Data
Firm recognized as Best ESG Research and Data Provider by Environmental Finance and Investment Week.
End-to-End ESG Solutions
ESG products and services that serve the entire investment value chain.
25+ Years ESG Expertise
350+ ESG research analysts across our global offices.
Largest Second-Party Opinion Provider
As recognized by Environmental Finance and the Climate Bonds Initiative.
Related Insights and Resources
Sustainability-Linked Loans 2021: The COVID-19 Effect, ESG Ratings & Continued Popularity
The sustainable finance market has seen an exponential increase in size and activity in recent years. Innovative offerings such as green, social, and sustainable bonds, green and sustainability-linked loans (SLLs), and most recently sustainability-linked bonds, have contributed to the market’s incredible growth. In 2020, boosted by varied financial needs and mainstream recognition of environmental, social and governance (ESG) parameters, global sustainable debt capital surpassed US$700 billion, a 30% increase compared to 2019. Part of this capital was channelled towards tackling the effects of COVID-19 as government agencies, supranational bodies and corporates borrowed money to support areas most affected by the pandemic, such as healthcare. This shift in fund usage in 2020 resulted in the rapid growth of social bonds and a commendable first year for sustainability-linked bonds.
Tracking the Progress on Gender Equality through Sustainable Finance
A key result of achieving UN SDG 5 - Gender Equality is global economic development. However, as women globally were disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the financing of activities that contribute to the empowerment and socio-economic advancement of women and girls will need to be accelerated to meet the goal by 2030. One option for creating targeted gender investment is the development and issuance of Gender Bonds that specifically support the advancement, empowerment, and equality of women.
Future-Proofing Supply Chains: Supply Chain Sustainability and Key Trends in 2021
Given the accelerating trends in sustainable supply chain management, integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations throughout the supply chain will be a key priority for companies in 2021 and beyond.
Gender Equality in Supply Chains: An Opportunity to Increase Positive Impacts
It’s well known that inequalities between men and women still exist in the workplace. Women are less likely to fill senior leadership positions (29% in North America), earn less (81 cents per dollar in the US) and own fewer businesses (39% of businesses in the US) than men.
