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Impact and UN SDGs

Understand the impact of your investments and see how they contribute towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).

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Align Your Investments to a Common, Global Framework

The UN SDGs were established in 2015 to provide a common framework that can be used to encourage financing of global sustainable development priorities. Our tools let you see the impact of individual companies and publicly traded funds—giving you a detailed understanding of how they align with and support the UN SDGs.

SDG Solutions Assessment

Our SDG Solutions Assessment measures sustainability impact across 15 social and environmental objectives. You’ll see where a company may be positively or negatively contributing across areas like climate change mitigation or gender equality.

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  • Actionable Results

    Provides aggregate and objective-level scoring and gives you a granular breakdown of the products and services that were assessed.

  • Proprietary Objectives

    Using the UN SDGs as a reference framework, we identified 15 proprietary sustainability objectives that we use to assess companies and funds.

  • Qualitative Analysis

    Our scores give you an objective way to assess how a company’s product and service portfolio contribute to or obstruct sustainable development.

  • Five-level Impact Categorization

    We use five categories to give you a quick understanding of a company’s contribution or obstruction towards the sustainability objectives: significant obstruction; limited obstruction; no (net) impact; limited contribution; or significant contribution.

The SDG Impact Rating

Using the UN SDGs as a framework, our SDG Impact Rating looks across a company’s value chain to assess how well it is managing negative externalities in its operations and capitalizing on opportunities in its products and services.

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  • Measured Thematically

    We determine a company’s impact by looking at three pillars: products and services, operations management, and controversies.

  • Granular and Aggregate Scoring

    120 distinct data points per company provide you with granular thematic assessments as well as aggregate impact measurements.

  • Customization Opportunities

    Using granular pillar scores, we can work with you to develop custom ratings that align with your unique investment objectives.

  • Quality Research

    Our methodology is under­pinned by data and insights sourced from industry-leading solutions within the ISS STOXX universe, including: the SDG Solutions Assessment, Corporate Rating, and Norm-Based Research.

SDG Portfolio Report

Our SDG Portfolio Reports analyze portfolios’ impacts on the UN SDGs—highlighting areas of positive or negative impact.

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Get Custom Ratings Based on Your Own Investment Approach

We can help you develop your own custom scoring models that align to your investment approach—and the criteria that are most important to you.

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Sustainability, Impact, Climate & Nature and Custom Ratings, Governance and Financial Scores and Screening & Controversies are provided by Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., an investment adviser registered under the U.S. Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

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