Research Affiliates
Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2010-07 to 2018-06)
Reporting Period: 2010-07 to 2018-06
Environmental Metrics
ESG Focus Areas
- Environmental
- Social
- Governance
Climate Goals & Targets
Environmental Challenges
- Lack of robust ESG data
- Inconsistency in ESG ratings methodologies across providers
- Differences in metrics used, scope of assessment, and weighting of attributes by ESG ratings providers
Mitigation Strategies
- Developing a three-tiered framework to categorize ESG data providers (Fundamental, Comprehensive, Specialist)
- Analyzing portfolio construction using data from two different providers to illustrate the impact of methodology differences