Research Guides: Management Ph.D. Seminar Topics: ESG & Climate Change

ESG Data

Datastream Advance
ASSET4 provides professional investors and corporate executives access to the world's largest database of ESG information and the analysis tools to integrate that information into their everyday decision making.
Bloomberg Professional
Provides sustainability investors with data about a company's environmental, social and governance metrics, such as greenhouse gas emissions intensity, resource consumption and workplace diversity.
MSCI GMI Ratings
GMI Ratings offers access to annual corporate governance datasets starting from 2001. The datasets provide proxy data captured through June 30th of each year on over 3,000 US companies and contain approximately 225 unique data points. The data is easily accessible from the WRDS platform
COMPUSTAT Global and Emerging Markets
Financial and market data on more than 13,000 international companies in more than 80 countries. Prooduced by Standard & Poor's. Available on WRDS. Access restricted to the Baruch community. Required to request daily password using your Baruch email account.
ISS
Corporate governance data covering companies in the S&P1500. Data on governance provisions, directors and shareholder proposals. Formerly known as "RiskMetrics."

Articles

"ESG Reports and Ratings: What They Are, Why They Matter." Posted by Betty Moy Huber and Michael Comstock, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, on July 27, 2017. on the Harvard Law School Forum for Corporate Governance.

Reports

CSR Monitor
From the Weissman Center for International Business, the CSR Sustainability Monitor summarizes and analyzes CSR reports published by companies listed in the Fortune Global 500. The most recent report is from 2019, older reports are available in their online archive.
Individual Company Reports
Search the web for Corporate Sustainability Report (or social responsibility or just sustainability) to find reports from individual companies.

Data on Climate Change

Climate Change Knowledge Portal
Published by the World Bank, provides useful global and country background information and data on climate change (to provide a point of reference for comparing CSR reports to climate data).
climate.gov
NOAA's data portal and information page on climate change, a mix of US and global data, useful for finding stats or large datasets (see Maps and Data tab).

Explore ESG Data Resources

The Library is planning an informal user group meeting this Spring. we'd like to hear about your research and data needs in CSR and ESG and related areas.

The meeting date has not yet been set. If you are interested in attending, please contact Ryan Phillips at extension 1621 or Ryan.Phillips@baruch.cuny.edu