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Exclusive: BlackRock partners with Rhodium to model climate risk

BlackRock is to partner with research firm Rhodium Group to provide data on the physical impacts of climate change.

ISS ESG creates impact rating system

ISS ESG has devised a system by which it will rate companies' management of their positive and negative contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

ShareAction: Banks 'tinkering around the edges' in response to climate change

Danske Bank and Intesa Sanpaolo have been named as the 'laggards' of the biggest European banks when it comes tackling climate change.

Morningstar takes full control of Sustainalytics

Financial services firm Morningstar has agreed to buy the 60% of Sustainalytics that it does not already own, in a deal that values the ESG research and ratings provider at €170 million ($184 million).

EC study seeks industry input on ESG investment data

A research study, commissioned by the European Commission, into the provision and use of sustainable investment data, ratings and research is now calling on senior staff in the asset management industry and in listed companies to share their ideas and experience. By completing a questionnaire, participants will be supporting a charitable donation to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

German court to rule on ISS ESG ratings report injunction

Sustainalytics targets high-risk companies with 'material risk engagement'

ESG data webinar: Unfiltered data and AI under the MSCI microscope

Speakers from MSCI and the EU's Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG) will discuss how investors can make the most of unfiltered data, on a webinar hosted by Environmental Finance.

Sustainalytics opens up risk ratings data to investors

Sustainalytics has expanded its offering of environmental, social and governance (ESG) data to provide investors with some of the information it uses in its ESG Risk Ratings methodology.

Biodiversity, shipping among Sustainalytics' impact trends for 2020

Sustainalytics has identified biodiversity and 'cleaner shipping' among 10 investment themes for 2020 it says look best placed to contribute positively to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and potentially create impact in addition to financial returns.