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The ESG App provides relevant data and insights on corporate sustainability based on the ESG (environment, social, and governance) imperative. We provide a convenient digital tool for professionals and interested stakeholders.

Sustainability covers a broad set of topics important for corporate reporting and business strategy. These include risks and opportunities associated with climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, stakeholder relations, business ethics, and human rights, among others. Beyond financial materiality, the impacts of these topics on people and the planet should be measured and reported by businesses as it is increasingly expected that businesses attend to these topics as a matter of their operations.

Sustainability is becoming an urgent and important topic that businesses should increasingly prioritize. Whether sustainability impacts are seen as risks, opportunities, or both depends on the nature of the business sector and activities. With the impending implementation of CSRD¹ and the release of disclosure standards, sustainability will affect large and small businesses across sectors and geographies.

While following the sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and ESG movements, we noticed a lack of relevant, meaningful, and transparent information available for all stakeholders interested, involved, and affected by ESG and sustainability. We designed our digital reference tool to provide up-to-date documents, facts, and data and complement our service offerings. This field is evolving quickly, and we strive to evolve with it.

1. Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive

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BROWSE NEWS AND PODCASTS

Latest news, opinions, analyses and podcasts on ESG and sustainabilities

VIEW GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Definitions and references of key terms and concepts related to ESG and sustainability

ACCESS REPORTING RESOURCES

Standards, implementation guidances, technical briefs and more

NAVIGATE CSRD AND ESRS

Find CSRD and ESRS disclosure requirements linked with sustainability topics. Search terms defined in the regulation.

SEARCH NET-ZERO COMMITMENTS

Net-Zero commitments by companies with near-term/long-term goals

ANALYZE MATERIALITY

Material topics from over 300 global companies and sector-level materiality clustering analysis

REFERENCE TAXONOMY CRITERIA

Sector and activities definitions and EU taxonomy alignment criteria for sustainable finance

VIEW EMISSIONS DATA

Scope 1, Scope 2 (location- and market-based), and Scope 3 (by categories) emissions data reported by companies and cities

FIND CARBON CONVERSIONS

Conversion factors for major carbon-emitting activities in transportation, electricity, fuel, waste, etc.

Example glossary

Biodiversity

The variability among living organisms from all sources including, interalia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part. This includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.

Source: Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures

Sustainability in business

In business, sustainability refers to doing business without negatively impacting the environment, community, or society as a whole. The goal of a sustainable business strategy is to make a positive impact on at least one of those areas. When companies fail to assume responsibility, the opposite can happen, leading to issues like environmental degradation, inequality, and social injustice.

Source: HBS

Scope 2 emissions (market-based)

A market-based method reflects emissions from electricity that companies have purposefully chosen (or their lack of choice). It derives emission factors from contractual instruments, which include any type of contracts between two parties for the sale and purchase of energy bundled with attributes about the energy generation, or for unbundled attribute claims.

Source: GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance

Carbon offsetting

Reducing GHG emissions (including through avoided emissions), or increasing GHG removals through activities external to an actor, in order to compensate for GHG emissions, such that an actor’s net contribution to global emissions is reduced. Offsetting is typically arranged through a marketplace for carbon credits or another exchange mechanism.

Source: Oxford Net Zero Climate

Sustainable finance

Sustainable finance refers to the process of taking environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into account when making investment decisions in the financial sector, leading to more long-term investments in sustainable economic activities and projects.

Source: European Commission