Bloomberg Index Services Limited (BISL) provides 500 cross-asset indices covering climate, environmental, social and governance (ESG) sustainable debt, with more than $100 billion in assets tracking those indices. Its comprehensive coverage saw it win two awards this year.

On the climate index side, it launched the Bloomberg Government Climate Tilted Bond Indices in 2024. It is a benchmark set of indices designed to give government bond investors targeted exposure to countries at the forefront of the transition to a low-carbon economy.

These indices use the Bloomberg Government Climate Scores (GOVS) to adjust country weights within Bloomberg's Treasury and Sovereign indices. GOVS evaluates a nation's readiness for climate transition across three pillars: carbon transition, power sector transition, and climate policy. They build on existing climate offerings from BISL, primarily the Paris-Aligned Indices

Elsewhere, BISL was, this year, selected by the University of Cambridge to launch a global corporate bond index to cover fossil fuel producers, utilities, insurance, and financing. That index forms part of the university's aim of supporting strategies for investment in companies that are working to reduce real economy greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Once launched, the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) and Cambridge University will move up to $750 million of their investments to track against the index.

BISL continues to maintain its suite of green bond indices, including the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Green, Social, and Sustainability Bond Indices. These benchmarks are supported by data from Bloomberg's Sustainable Finance Group, built in accordance with the International Capital Market Association's (ICMA) Green, Social, and Sustainability Bond Principles and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.