Global Access Research Platform Now Available for Corporates

Companies can use Global Access to gain insights on their peers’ sustainability performance, perform scans of their own business environment (i.e., suppliers, competitors, partners, distributors, clients), screen companies on custom criteria, extract data to perform further analysis, and use the insights to inform their sustainability strategy.

Through Global Access, companies can obtain research on approximately 16,500 companies in Sustainalytics’ Global ESG Universe, which covers most large, medium, and small-cap issuers of equity securities (and analogous fixed-income issuers) in emerging and developed markets. This universe offers maximum coverage on Sustainalytics’ proprietary ESG Risk Ratings, Low Carbon Transition Ratings as well as other climate products. Impact and compliance research for all companies that are part of the universe is also available.

Impact Metrics help a company understand how much of its revenue can be attributed to sustainable activities. Our methodology ascribes the company’s revenue streams to sustainable activities in line with a specific UN Sustainable Development Goal, as well as to an impact theme from Sustainalytics’ proprietary Impact Framework.

For each researched company, our Impact Metrics provides an impact report card backed up by a robust methodology. By accessing our impact research on Global Access, companies will be able to view how much of their business partners’, peers’ and competitors’ revenue, as well as their own, is considered to have been generated in a sustainable way. This information can support their double materiality assessment and their impact management.

Companies can leverage Sustainalytics’ climate data to identify, assess and manage climate-related risks and opportunities. With tools like the Low Carbon Transition Ratings, Physical Climate Risk Metrics and Carbon Emissions Data, companies can align with regulatory developments such as the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and the EU Action Plan.

Our Low Carbon Transition Ratings framework helps measure how a company's projected greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions align with net zero targets, providing insights into exposure and management actions. Additionally, our Carbon Emissions Data, supported by advanced regression models, offers a detailed analysis of GHG emissions. This enables companies to respond to regulatory requirements, identify the effectiveness of their net zero strategies, evaluate the sufficiency of their TCFD-aligned disclosure, and view the same information on their business partners and peers.

Sustainalytics’ ESG Risk Rating is an absolute measure of unmanaged risks related to ESG issues considered financially material. Based on their rating, companies are allocated into five risk categories (i.e., negligible, low, medium, high, and severe risk). The degree of a company’s exposure to ESG issues varies based on its subindustry and company-specific factors. Our transparent approach ensures that rated companies have all the tools they need to understand the methodology and their own scoring.

The ESG Risk Rating acts as a reliable assessment of ESG risk, allowing for comparisons across peers in different subindustries. Examining our ESG risk research on Global Access allows our corporate clients to understand which environmental, social, and governance risks they should prioritize. Companies can also discover what their peers are prioritizing in their strategies and what disclosures and policies they are adopting to manage risks. They can use the information to help determine the actions they should take to enhance their reputation and improve their competitive positioning with respect to ESG risk management.

Increasingly, investors are undertaking credibility assessments, wanting to know issuers’ progress toward decarbonization in addition to the goals they have set.

Sustainalytics’ Low Carbon Transition Rating (LCTR) measures the degree to which a company’s projected GHG emissions differ from various decarbonization policy scenarios between now and the year 2050.

By accessing LCTR on Global Access, companies can better understand their decarbonization path through various metrics (i.e., implied temperature rise; scope 1, 2, 3 emissions; TCFD alignment; value at risk; scenario analysis) and their positioning against peers. For instance, they can screen relevant companies using distinct criteria such as their management of specific carbon-related issues and disclosures. Companies can also determine the completeness of their TCFD-aligned disclosure in the LCTR’s TCFD Module.

Companies developing a transition plan will be able to understand how their peers and partners are managing their own transition objectives, and answer questions such as: “Do my peers disclose their carbon pricing?” “Do they require their tier 1 suppliers to set carbon targets?” and “Where do I have gaps, compared to them?”

Industry reports allow our clients to quickly get up to speed on key industry trends and understand the distribution of ESG risk both within and across industries. The reports help our corporate clients identify industry peers with the highest and lowest risks across a range of material ESG issues. They also allow clients to compare industries against the broader universe on different measures of unmanaged ESG risk.

On Global Access, clients can view and download detailed PDF reports on 42 industries.

Visit Global Access’ webpage for more information about the platform and details on how to access the tool.