ESG Risk Rating License

Highlight your company’s ESG success

null

Companies today are more deeply understanding the materiality of their ESG policies and practices and are stepping up to meet the expectations of their key stakeholders, including their employees, their shareholders and society in general. As awareness of ESG factors has grown, so has the interest among companies to proactively and clearly communicate what they are doing in the area of corporate responsibility.

Leveraging a recognized third-party rating service can add credibility to your ESG story. That’s why investor relations officers, corporate sustainability officers, marketing chiefs, human resource heads and others in executive management are increasingly licensing their Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Rating for a variety of stakeholder use cases.

Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Ratings License allows companies to use the ESG Risk Rating and reports for various internal and/or external corporate purposes. Increasingly companies are leveraging their ESG performance data as part of their capital raising activities, marketing and promotion programs, investor relations outreach and employee communications initiatives.

 

null

Key Benefits and Features

null

Disclose your Sustainability Commitments

Make a statement to the market and investors about your ESG impact. Gain a better understanding of your company’s performance on material ESG factors, and areas for improvement. 

null

Leverage your ESG score 

Increase the credibility of your sustainability efforts to investors and stakeholders by leveraging Sustainalytics’ globally recognized brand with our “Rated by Sustainalytics” Badge.*

null

Access your full ESG Risk Rating report

Engage with your company’s ESG data and understand the way investors view your practices. Get a contextual view into how various ESG risk factors and indicators impact your ESG rating over time with an Annual Score Change Report. The ESG Event Alert Report provides updates that highlight any ESG score changes due to controversies that may occur.

null
Align your ESG Risk Rating report with other reports

Set the date for when your ESG rating is researched to have your report updated annually to coincide with your sustainability or annual report release.

Use Cases for an ESG Risk Rating License 

null

Capital Raising 

Leverage your company’s ESG Risk Rating to support capital raising activities such as the issuance of green, social, or sustainability bonds.  

null

Investor Relations 

Align your ESG practices and profile with investor expectations. Leverage your ESG rating to broaden your company’s appeal to new types of investors thereby broadening your shareholder base.  

null

Debt and Equity Roadshows  

Publish your ESG Risk Rating in green bond roadshows to give investors’ confidence that your company is effectively managing sustainability-related risks. 

null

Sustainable Financing and Lending 

Leverage your company’s ESG Risk Rating to access favorable terms for sustainability-linked loans or issue sustainability-linked bonds.   

null

Marketing and Corporate Communications

Raise awareness about your company’s ESG performance among internal and external stakeholders to help support your organization’s marketing and public profile.

Why Sustainalytics?

null

A Single Market Standard

Consistent approach to ESG assessments across the investment spectrum.

null

Award-Winning Research and Data

Firm recognized as Best ESG Research and Data Provider by Environmental Finance and Investment Week.

null

End-to-End ESG Solutions

ESG products and services that serve the entire investment value chain.

null

30 Years of ESG Expertise

800+ ESG research analysts across our global offices.

null

A Leading SPO Provider

As recognized by Environmental Finance and the Climate Bonds Initiative.

Related Insights and Resources

Biodiversity is the foundation of our natural capital and at risk from business activities. However, while there is regulatory and market momentum to mitigate biodiversity loss, businesses are generally not acknowledging or addressing the risks.

Risk and Opportunity in Biodiversity: How Sustainable Finance Can Help

This article outlines how biodiversity loss poses material risks to business and how it connects to many other issues that companies can’t ignore. In addition, it covers how biodiversity conservation presents substantial economic opportunities, and how businesses can address and access these opportunities by issuing linked instruments that integrate biodiversity considerations.

Today’s Sustainable Bond Market: Boosting Confidence in Sustainable Bond Issuances

In this article, we examine the kinds of sustainable bonds offered in the market, some of the key regulations being developed in different markets and the current initiatives to improve the quality and credibility of issuances.

Contribute to Morningstar Sustainalytics’ 2nd Annual Global Survey of CSR and Sustainability Professionals

Morningstar Sustainalytics’ 2nd Annual Global Survey of CSR and Sustainability Professionals

We invite corporate social responsibility and sustainability professionals around the world to participate in the second edition of the Morningstar Sustainalytics Corporate ESG Survey.

Webinar Recap: How Integrating ESG Can Drive Opportunity for Private Companies

Recently, Morningstar Sustainalytics hosted a webinar – ESG in the Lifecycle of a Private Company: How Stakeholder Demands Drive Sustainability in Private Markets – to address some of the questions private companies might have surrounding ESG and how it could impact their business.

Related Products

null

Peer Performance Insights

Compare your performance to industry peers to drive ESG performance improvements.

Learn More
null

Top-Rated Companies

The Top-Rated ESG Badge is awarded on an annual basis to companies who excel at managing their ESG Risk Ratings.

Learn More
null

ESG Risk Ratings

Identify your corporate sustainability risk with ESG research and data on more than 12,000 companies.

Learn More