Tackling social and environmental challenges represents an enormous investment opportunity. In less than 10 years, Tesla grew to become the most valuable automaker in the world.
Sustainalytics’ Sustainable Products Research enable investors to pick out those companies with social and environmentally progressive revenue streams from a universe of more than 10,000 companies. Clients can leverage this information to benefit from secular trends and create thematic impact investing products aligned to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Depth
Understand company involvement via quantitative and qualitative data points, including percentage of revenues, nature of involvement and revenue analysis.
Flexibility
Use the data to screen portfolios for, or report on, a company’s positive contribution to social and environmental challenges.
Thematic Breadth
Select from 12 thematic areas covered by sustainable products and services, that address the challenges you are prioritizing.
Expertise
Leverage the insights of our expert team specializing in product analysis.
Identify companies whose goods and services support a more sustainable world.
Analyze, screen, and monitor portfolios for sustainable goods and services.
Improve your sustainability reporting.
Develop sustainability or SDG-themed impact investment solutions.
Complement your ESG analysis with sustainable product involvement.
Coverage
>10,000 Companies
Global Coverage
Impact Investing Themes
Click on the image to see the product areas’ relation to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Affordable Housing
Affordable Housing
The Affordable Housing theme assesses companies’ involvement in the development and/or management of housing that is affordable to low and lower-middle income people.
Education
Education
The Education theme assesses companies’ involvement in products and services that improve access to education.
Energy Efficiency
Energy Efficiency
The Energy Efficiency theme assesses companies’ involvement in the provision of products and services that significantly improve energy efficiency across a broad range of applications.
Financial Inclusion
Financial Inclusion
The Financial Inclusion theme assesses companies’ involvement in products and services that provide access to financial products and services that meet the needs of low-income and vulnerable groups at an affordable cost and in a fair and transparent manner.
Green Buildings
Green Buildings
The Green Buildings theme assesses companies’ involvement in the development, management, or provision of products for sustainable buildings.
Green Transportation
Green Transportation
The Green Transportation theme assesses companies’ involvement in the provision of sustainable transportation products and/or services.
Health
Pollution Prevention & Reduction
Pollution Prevention and Reduction
The Pollution Prevention & Reduction theme assesses companies’ involvement in products and services that prevent the production or release of pollutants, or that provide pollutant treatment or remediation services.
Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy
The Renewable Energy theme assesses companies’ involvement in the generation of renewable energy or in the manufacture of products and services that support renewable energy generation.
Resource Efficiency
Resource Efficiency
The Resource Efficiency theme assesses companies’ involvement in products and services that support a circular economy by increasing the efficiency of resource use, or enabling recycling and resource recovery.
Sustainable Agriculture and Food
Sustainable Agriculture and Food
The Sustainable Agriculture, Food and Forestry theme assesses companies’ involvement in agriculture, food and forestry products and services that are considered sustainable, according to credible global or national certification schemes.
Water
Water
The Water theme assesses companies’ involvement in products and services that provide access to water, increase water efficiency, and/or contribute to the sustainable management of water resources.
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Five Commonly Asked Questions About Sustainalytics’ Approach to Impact
We launched our new Impact Metrics product to support investors’ growing need for more robust data that can be used to demonstrate how ESG-focused strategies can deliver real-world social and environmental outcomes. Since the launch, I have connected with many enthusiastic institutional investors eager to make sense of the rapidly evolving world of impact, excited to dive into impact data, and cautiously optimistic about supporting their clients’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and impact needs.
Is Natural Gas a Cleaner Energy Solution?
While Oil and Gas (O&G) operations are responsible for roughly 15 percent of global energy-related GHG emissions, some energy companies have pledged the role of natural gas (NG) as a transitional fuel. At the same time, NG energy use is increasing globally, and shale-gas extraction is booming at an unprecedented rate. One factor that is often overlooked is the methane emissions across the NG value chain.
How China’s Electric Vehicle (EV) Policies have shaped the EV market
As CO2 emissions are inherent to Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles (ICEVs), Electric Vehicles (EVs) are widely considered to be the logical alternative towards realizing zero emissions. With the continuation of ongoing technological refinement and years’ of heavy investment, EV manufacturers have significantly upgraded the performance of their products and improved economies of scale making EV production more economically feasible allowing for EVs to become a more widely considered consumer choice. Improving economies of scale, in both the EV manufacturing and the recycling of decommissioned batteries along with the grid’s transition towards renewable energy will make the positive impacts of EVs increasingly undeniable.
Sustainable Fund Labels: Diverse Definitions of Sustainability
Sustainable financial products are marked with an increasingly large list of tags, from green, sustainable, socially responsible to thematic ESG, water, carbon or impact funds, and not every investor might know how to make sense of these terms. Sustainable fund labels can be one way to signal to the market that the fund has a dedicated responsible investment strategy.
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