Benchmark your sustainability practices against your peers

Institutional investors are increasingly incorporating extra-financial factors into their evaluation of corporate issuers. Among these factors are the risks posed by an issuer’s sustainability practices, including the transparency and completeness of disclosure with respect to environmental and social issues. As sustainability becomes more important to mainstream investors, corporate issuers need to understand how their sustainability disclosures are evaluated, how they compare with peers and how to provide guidance to their management and board.

To help corporate issuers meet these needs, RiskMetrics Group developed Sustainability Analytics. Available as an add-on to Governance Exchange® for Corporate Issuers or as a stand-alone solution, Sustainability Analytics enables corporate issuers to evaluate their sustainability performance on over 160 individual factors, across 5 major subcategories, including Climate Change, Environmental, Sustainability Oversight, Labor and Human Rights and Ethics. Issuers can also benchmark against industry peers on a global basis, as well as leverage sustainability data to provide insight and guidance to senior management and the board.

Benefits of Sustainability Analytics

Using Sustainability Analytics' detailed peer comparisons and search capabilities, you can:

• Easily monitor your overall sustainability score and sub-scores relative to your industry group and other peers on a real-time basis
• Leverage the underlying data to help guide discussions about sustainability with your management team, board of directors and investors
• Gain insight into peer companies’ sustainability practices and how they compare to yours on a factor-by-factor basis
• Augment the process by which you evaluate business partners or suppliers by incorporating sustainability factors as a measure of risk

Please contact us for more information about Sustainability Analytics.

In accordance with our Business Practices, this solution is delivered by ISS Corporate Services, Inc. (ICS), a wholly owned subsidiary of RiskMetrics Group, Inc.