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Sustainability for Governments

Prepare for a new era of essential intelligence with sustainability analytics, climate credit risk indicators, energy and infrastructure analysis. Explore the breadth and power of S&P Capital IQ Pro.

The Future Is Now.

There has been unprecedented market and policy momentum behind sustainability in recent years. Sustainability factors are just one of many different lenses that can be applied to understand broader sustainability topics. Governments globally have a renewed and strong resolve to reimagine and address climate challenges, to build a more resilient and sustainable future, to fortify the financial system, and safeguard society from natural and man-made catastrophes.

We aim to offer the most in-depth and expansive set of data, analytics and transparent methodologies to help our customers navigate the multiple ways to understand sustainability, in this evolving landscape.

Every month, we deliver data-driven insight on the major policy questions impacting markets, economies, and businesses, exploring issues ranging from taxation and healthcare to energy regulations and climate change.

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  • News & Headlines

    Access news and analysis paired with deep sector expertise with a global lens.

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  • ESG Regulatory Tracker

    S&P Global Sustainable1 presents key environmental, social and governance regulatory developments and disclosure standards from around the world.

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  • Sustainability Topics

    Stay on top of sustainability developments and consider the risks and opportunities across financial decision-making.

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Research for Regulators

Leverage our suite of sustainability datasets for insightful market research and stay ahead of the ever-changing sustainability landscape. Now available through Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS). Access elevated querying on a time-tested interface designed for your research needs.

  • S&P Global ESG Scores

    An environmental, social and governance dataset that provides company level, dimension level, and criteria level scores based on the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) process and publicly available sources, allowing research on impact to a company's business value drivers, including growth, profitability, capital efficiency, and risk exposure.

  • Trucost Environmental

    Measure environmental impact across key dimensions for over 15,000 companies to assess environmental costs, identify, and manage environmental and climate risk as well as conduct peer and portfolio analysis from a climate and environmental perspective.

  • Climate Analytics

    Through company-level analysis, assess exposure to seven climate-change physical risk indicators, analyze exposure to carbon pricing risk under different future climate change scenarios and evaluate alignment with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C from pre-industrial levels.

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  • Explore Trucost Data via WRDS

    S&P Global has partnered with WRDS and the Wharton School of Business to provide leading business intelligence, data analytics, and financial research platform to global institutions – enabling comprehensive thought leadership, historical analysis, and insight into the latest innovations in academic research.

    With accelerating sustainability opportunities, intensifying risks & evolving regulatory changes environmental, social and corporate governance considerations need to be embedded in academic research now more than ever.

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Physical Risk is Financial Risk



Get a clearer view of your exposure with our latest generation climate models, geospatial data, ownership mapping and vulnerability pathways, and actionable financial impact analysis.

Scientists are increasingly making the connection between extreme weather events and climate change. Looking forward, climate studies — including the sixth assessment report (AR6) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — point to a worsening picture of increasing economic losses even under low-emission scenarios in the absence of a significant uptick in investments to adapt to a changing climate.



Science-Based Methodology

Robust methodology leverages the latest available climate change models (CMIP6).

8 Climate Change Hazards

Consistent global coverage of eight key hazards: coastal flood, fluvial flood, extreme heat, extreme cold, tropical cyclone, wildfire, water stress, and drought.

Financial Impact Assessment

Proprietary impact functions model the vulnerability of >250 unique asset types to the financial consequences of climate change hazards

Point-in-Time Exposure

Physical risk scores represent point-in-time exposure to climate hazards

3.1M+ Asset Locations

Built on a proprietary database of over 3.1 million asset locations linked to corporate entities and ultimate parent entities

98% of Global Market Cap

Coverage of more than 20,000 companies representing over 98% of global market capitalization

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Sustainability Datasets

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Featured Content

 

Politics & Policy: Sustainability Measures and Physical Risks

Sustainability Policy Shifts

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IRA Energy Community Post IRS Guidance

A look at renewable energy projects

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Politics & Policy: Inflation, Trade & Sustainability Outlooks

Macroeconomic and trade forecasts

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A National Government’s Need for a Carbon Registry and Auction Platform

All sustainability insights are not equal

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A single platform for essential intelligence. Understand the global energy landscape and evaluate how energy companies are progressing with energy transition to achieve low-carbon emissions. 

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Inflation Reduction Act

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is a reconciliation bill in the United States that unlocks $370 billion in climate and energy investment, supporting a diversity of technologies and solutions.

The incentive-laden act could go a long way toward propelling the U.S. to a net-zero future, consistent with the Biden Administration's goals. However, many of the agencies involved in the implementation have yet to finalize rules or guidance for participation in the programs. Together these issues could limit the financial benefits of the act.

Subscribe to the ESG Insider, a newsletter from S&P Global that includes news and insights into environmental, social and governance developments driving change in business and investment decisions.

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Sustainability Regulation & Standards

Policymakers and regulators are imposing disclosure requirements. But a patchwork of reporting frameworks presents challenges for market participants.

  • Biden vetoes GOP-led effort to overturn Labor Department ESG rule

    President Joe Biden vetoed Congress' recent decision to overturn a new US Labor Department rule that allows financial managers of private retirement plans to consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in investments. The Biden rule rolled back a Trump-era rule barring fiduciaries from assessing ESG risks and returns along with other investment criteria.

    Republicans who led the effort to overturn the department's recent "Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights" rule argued that ESG investments hurt investors by discriminating against certain companies and industries. Biden countered that ESG can have a "material impact on markets, industries and businesses" and that ignoring such risk can, instead, be detrimental for people saving for retirement.

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  • How companies, countries are beginning to put a value on nature

    In this episode of ESG Insider, we'll hear from two people well-placed to explain how the world has historically done little to understand the way nature benefits the economy — and how that is now evolving.

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