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Case Study — 21 Oct, 2021
Highlights
ESG factors continue to gain attention, in particular with investment managers looking to adopt carbon-sensitive strategies to meet the needs of stakeholders. This firm has been a leader in sustainable investing and was looking to take its ESG analytical capabilities to an even higher level.
The company had been using a combination of self-collected ESG data and third-party services. There was limited carbon emissions data disclosed by Chinese listed companies and bond issuers, however, so there was a need for modeled carbon data to support investment research. The company wanted to find an alternative solution that offered:
The company had heard about S&P Global Market Intelligence (“Market Intelligence”) and S&P Global Sustainable1’s leading position in climate change data, metrics, and modelling, and reached out to learn more about the offerings.
Market Intelligence discussed services offered by S&P Global Sustainable1, especially Trucost’s environmental analytics that have been assessing risks relating to climate change, natural resource constraints, and broader ESG issues since 2000. Trucost’s solutions support financial institutions in getting ahead in the transition to a low-carbon, sustainable economy. The environmental and climate data and related analytical tools would enable the company to:
Evaluate the carbon intensity of investment portfolios |
Trucost Climate and Environmental Data provides quality-checked and standardized environmental data on more than 22,000 companies.[1] Users can measure impact, identify exposure, and manage risks and opportunities across different asset classes, addressing the challenges of climate change, water use, waste disposal, and the over-exploitation of natural resources. The subset of company-level carbon emissions data covers Scope 1, 2, and 3 with metrics on quantities and intensities of carbon-equivalent emissions (tCO2e, tCO2e/US$ revenues) and their estimated damage cost equivalents (US$), along with impact ratios. As with all environmental data, it contains sector revenue data that gives revenues and percentages of company revenues derived from each of Trucost’s 464 business sectors. Data goes back to 2005, where available. |
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Leverage robust desktop tools |
Availablity on the S&P Capital IQ Pro platform enables users to incorporate climate and environmental analysis with financials, market, and asset-level data for a holistic analysis to support their business decisions. |
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Easily feed data to internal applications and workflows |
A desktop solution for quick access is complemented with XpressfeedTM that automates the download and management of Market Intelligence data and enables delivery as needed in a ready-to-query relational database to link to internal applications. |
The company saw many benefits to the Market Intelligence solution, including the ability to:
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