ISS announced the publication of, and free access to, the ISS ESG Corporate Ratings, Governance QualityScores, and SGD Impact Ratings for more than 6,000 companies via a new online portal - the ISS ESG Gateway. Where relevant, the portal will also note companies’ “Prime Status” (see excerpt below).
The ISS ESG Corporate Rating provides highly relevant, material and forward looking environmental, social, and governance data and performance assessments. It considers approximately 100 indicators per industry. The ESG Corporate Rating applies a twelve-point grading system from A+ (excellent performance) to D- (poor performance). Companies are awarded Prime Status if the overall ISS ESG Corporate Rating letter grade meets or exceeds the industry-specific Prime threshold defined by ISS ESG’s Industry Classification Matrix. The Prime threshold reflects the overall magnitude of an industry’s risk exposure and footprint, and is C+ for the majority of industries, B- for high ESG risk industries and C for industries with a lower ESG risk profile.
For example, here is a display for Tesla:
ISS’s ranking of the top ten US companies by their ISS ESG Corporate Rating is here.
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