ISS ESG Climate Solutions Global (data on 25k companies and 80k securities)

Carbon and Climate Data Provides carbon and climate data on a universe of more than 25,000 companies and more than 80,000 securities across asset classes. ISS ESG’s comprehensive data base of GHG emissions include both reported emissions data and modeled estimations for non-disclosed emissions, or those who report with a low trust metric (according to internal analysis). Available data factors include direct emissions (scope 1), energy indirect emissions (scope 2), and other indirect (scope 3), including both upstream (supply chain) and product usage (life cycle) emissions. Carbon footprint data is available for the following asset classes: listed entities, fixed income, private equity, most sovereign, municipal, sub-/supranational issuers, private equity and debt issuers, corporate loans, and project finance including listed and unlisted infrastructure, real estate and real assets. Climate Advisory Services Provides internal stakeholder workshops to deliver training and education on the outcome and results of the analysis of the investments. The objective is to equip the different stakeholders and different teams with detailed and specific knowledge regarding industry standards and frameworks and climate impact assessments of investments to enable them to apply the results and relevant data towards their daily business and decision making. Advisory Services include: Climate change strategy development and implementation, Investment products and benchmarks development, Bespoke climate impact research, Workshops and capacity building, Climate-related reporting support, Benchmarking of investment strategies. Carbon Footprint Report ISS ESG’s Carbon Footprint Report provides a holistic analysis of the quantities and sources of greenhouse gas emissions of clients’ public equity holdings against their custom benchmark. The client’s portfolio will be analyzed for its fossil fuel exposure based on ISS ESG’s comprehensive data base of GHG emissions including more than 25,000 companies and more than 80,000 securities across asset classes. ISS ESG’s Carbon Footprint Report is designed to support investors that want to comply with key disclosure frameworks and guidelines, such as the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the Montreal Pledge and the Swedish AP Funds. Climate Impact Report ISS ESG’s Climate Impact Report provides a holistic analysis of the carbon footprint, climate change preparedness, and climate-related impact of a clients’ holdings, identifying reportable and actionable data for the formulation of climate-friendly investment strategies. Client portfolios are analyzed for their greenhouse gas and fossil fuel exposure based on ISS ESG’s comprehensive database of GHG emissions for more than 25,000 companies, including listed equities, fixed income, and sovereign and corporate bonds. The report can assist investors in fulfilling requirements for internal and global external reporting initiatives such as the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Article 173 of the French Energy Transition Law, and the PRI. The Climate Impact Report includes analyses of: Physical Risk: Provides estimates of the financial impact due to increasing hazard intensity for the most likely and worst-case scenarios by 2050 across the five most costly weather hazards: floods, heat stress, wildfires, tropical cyclones, and drought. Scenario Analysis: Assessment of a portfolio's alignment with three climate scenarios provided by the International Energy Agency (IEA): Sustainable Development Scenario (SDS), Stated Policy Scenario (STEPS), and Current Policy Scenario (CPS). The analysis also includes a qualitative climate target assessment and temperature scores on a portfolio & company level. Carbon Risk Rating ISS ESG’s Carbon Risk Rating evaluates to what extent a company copes with future challenges related to climate change and seizes opportunities arising from a transition to a low-carbon economy. The score is based on the assessment of 100 different standard and sector-specific indicators. Standard topics include climate change strategy, energy management, environmental impacts of the product portfolio, eco efficiency, etc. Issuers are scored on a scale from 0 to 100 representing how a company deals with industry-specific climate risks. These results allow the investor to see in a forward-looking way which companies are best equipped to reduce their direct and indirect carbon emissions effectively. Coverage comprises over 9,700 corporate issuers, including some 6,800 assigned corporate issuers. Potential Avoided Emission Data An innovative methodology that allows investors and corporate to assess the potential avoided emissions of their investments, i.e. emissions that would have been released if a particular action or intervention had not taken place. ISS ESG’s methodology covers potential avoided emissions throughout the value chain, for instance, those from an investees’ more carbon-efficient products or services. This is particularly relevant for those investments that offer solutions and contributions to a low carbon future through their focus or product portfolio. ISS ESG’s Potential Avoided Emissions methodology can be applied to a variety of assets, including public and private equity, bonds and infrastructure projects. A bespoke approach is provided for investments in infrastructure projects or companies with a complex product portfolios. Climetrics Is the world’s first climate impact rating for funds, enabling fund investors to integrate climate change into their investment decisions. The Climetrics rating measures the climate risk and opportunities of a fund against other funds in its sample, represented by a 1-5 leaf rating, with five being the best. Subscribers to Climetrics receive a rating license, enabling them to publicly display the climate rating of its investment funds to clients and other stakeholders. Climate Voting Policy A climate-specific specialty proxy voting policy that focuses on promoting positive climate performance, management and disclosure. Driven by ISS ESG’s leading, in-house Climate, ESG Ratings and Norm-Based Research solutions, the new Climate Voting Policy provides an actionable, transparent framework for investors to exercise their voting rights with reference to their portfolio companies’ climate disclosures and performance. The Climate Voting Policy is based on principles developed from widely recognized international frameworks, such as the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosure (“TCFD”), to provide investors with an informed, consistent, climate-related voting approach. The policy uses a scorecard approach reflecting varied climate-related risk factors, resulting in insightful research and vote recommendations. Custom Climate Voting Factors Combining ISS’ extensive and unique climate data and proprietary research with internal expertise, data and research on governance and voting. The service draws on widely recognized frameworks including the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), to help investors more easily reflect and vote their views on a company’s climate change risks, disclosures and performance, and giving a variety of options for voting recommendations. The service uses a robust and transparent scorecard approach based on multiple climate-related factors, giving investors the flexibility to weigh multiple climate change impact and risk factors to produce customized and targeted vote recommendations.