SUST 4100 - Resilience to Catastrophic Failure in Organizations: ESG Research

Factiva is a reputable news source, offering full-text coverage of over 3,000 national, international and regional newspapers, including major titles such as The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New York Times, and the Guardian. Also includes the full text of the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star and National Post. Other resources in Factiva include newswires, news web sites, blogs and podcasts, and many trade and popular magazines.

ESG Risk Ratings are designed to help investors identify and understand ESG risks at the security and portfolio level. It captures a company’s exposure to material, industry-specific ESG risks and a company’s management of those risks. The ESG Risk Rating provides investors with an overall company score based on an assessment of how much of a company’s exposure to ESG risk is unmanaged. The more of this risk that is unmanaged, then the higher the ESG Risk Rating score.

Sustainalytics’ Controversies Research identifies companies involved in incidents and events that may pose a business or reputation risk due to the potential impact on stakeholders, the environment or the company’s operations.

The sources of information used in the two products are different. ESG Risk Ratings use Corporate disclosure, Media coverage and NGO reporting. Controversy Research analyses a wide range of international and local news and NGO sources.