The Future of ESG Data 2022

17 October 2022, London

Hilton Tower Bridge • 5 More London Place, Tooley Street, London SE1 2BY

Gold sponsors

Morningstar Sustainalytics is a leading ESG research, ratings and data firm that supports investors around the world with the development and implementation of responsible investment strategies. For nearly 30 years, the firm has been at the forefront of developing high-quality, innovative solutions to meet the evolving needs of global investors. Today, Morningstar Sustainalytics works with hundreds of the world's leading asset managers and pension funds who incorporate ESG and corporate governance information and assessments into their investment processes. The firm also works with hundreds of companies and their financial intermediaries to help them consider sustainability in policies, practices, and capital projects. With 17 offices globally, Morningstar Sustainalytics has more than 1,200 staff members, including more than 500 analysts with varied multidisciplinary expertise across more than 40 industry groups. For more information, visit www.sustainalytics.com.

Sustainable Fitch provides insights, tools and data that have been designed and built entirely and exclusively to help bring clarity to the ESG financial community. Our focus is, and will always be, on providing transparent, objective and substantive data that enables confidence in decision-making.
To best serve our clients and partners, Fitch realized that it would be necessary to build an entirely new product suite of objective ESG data and analysis, focusing on consistency, comparability, coverage and granularity. Leaning on our expertise in best-in-class analytics and research, and reputation for transparency and integrity, our team of leading ESG experts came together to bring the financial community a robust and comprehensive ESG data and analysis solution.

Powered by the human insight that has differentiated Fitch for over 100 years, Sustainable Fitch brings experience and heritage to help the financial community make smarter decisions, using the best ESG information available.

Silver sponsors

EcoVadis is a purpose-led company whose mission is to provide the world's most trusted business sustainability ratings. Businesses of all sizes rely on EcoVadis' expert intelligence and evidence-based ratings to monitor and improve the sustainability performance of their business and trading partners. Its actionable scorecards, benchmarks, carbon action tools, and insights guide an improvement journey for environmental, social and ethical practices across 200 industry categories and 175 countries. Industry leaders such as Johnson & Johnson, L'Oréal, Unilever, LVMH, Bridgestone, BASF and JPMorgan are among the 95,000 businesses that collaborate with EcoVadis to drive resilience, sustainable growth and positive impact worldwide. Learn more on ecovadis.com, Twitter or LinkedIn.

A sharper focus on sustainability means institutions and finance professionals are looking beyond traditional analysis to assess risks and opportunities, and are factoring in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into their decision-making. ICE offers a range of cross asset sustainable finance data and tools that provide a comprehensive view of ESG issues across the market to help you uncover opportunities, manage risk, and provide transparency to your clients.

ISS ESG solutions enable investors to develop and integrate responsible investing policies and practices, engage on responsible investment issues, and monitor portfolio company practices through screening solutions. It also provides climate data, analytics, and advisory services to help financial market participants understand, measure, and act on climate-related risks across all asset classes. In addition, ESG solutions cover corporate and country ESG research and ratings enabling its clients to identify material social and environmental risks and opportunities.
Contact: sales@iss-esg.com Website: www.iss-esg.com

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.

MSCI ESG Research products and services are provided by MSCI ESG Research LLC, and are designed to provide in-depth research, ratings and analysis of environmental, social and governance-related business practices to companies worldwide. ESG ratings, data and analysis from MSCI ESG Research LLC. are also used in the construction of the MSCI ESG Indexes. MSCI ESG Research LLC is a Registered Investment Adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and a subsidiary of MSCI Inc.

www.msci.com

Moody's (NYSE: MCO) is a global integrated risk assessment firm that empowers organizations to make better decisions. Its data, analytical solutions and insights help decision-makers identify opportunities and manage the risks of doing business with others. We believe that greater transparency, more informed decisions, and fair access to information open the door to shared progress. With over 11,500 employees in more than 40 countries, Moody's combines international presence with local expertise and over a century of experience in financial markets. Learn more at https://esg.moodys.io/

Bronze sponsors

Greenomy helps corporates, credit institutions, and asset managers to comply with the new EU Sustainable Finance Regulations (EU Taxonomy, SFDR, NFRD/CSRD) by digitalizing the data capturing and reporting process. Our innovative solution establishes an all-encompassing sustainability data and analytics ecosystem that connects all critical stakeholders and facilitates the redirection of funds towards sustainable initiatives, in line with the EU Green Deal.

Greenomy is expanding its product to the UK market and testing the integration of the upcoming UK Green Taxonomy into its framework to serve UK based clients. Greenomy is also gradually integrating other non-EU Green Taxonomies, to offer users a one-stop solution for their global operations, as well as an international user-owned ESG market infrastructure.

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Preqin is the Home of Alternatives®, the foremost provider of data, analytics and insights to the alternative assets community. From pioneering rigorous methods of data collection to developing a revolutionary platform, we have committed ourselves to furthering the understanding of alternatives for over 18 years. Through close partnership with our clients, our 300 researchers based in key financial centers worldwide combine with cutting-edge technology to make sure our data and research is unique, timely, accurate and insightful.

Today, over 120,000 fund managers, investors, placement agents, service providers, advisors and other industry professionals from more than 38,000 firms worldwide are empowered with information that underpins their daily workflow including fundraising, asset allocation, investor relations, origination and business development.

Preqin is an independent business with staff based in London, Dubai, Frankfurt, New York Chicago, Singapore, San Francisco, Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Bangalore and Manila.

www.preqin.com

Sanctify automate ESG analysis using AI. Sanctify ESG is a web based application that allows the user to monitor their whole portfolio in a single view, but also to deep dive into each and every company, the app is also available in the Bloomberg Terminal through the App portal (Search Apps SESG <GO>)

Marketing partners

The Climate Markets and Investment Association (CMIA) is an independent not for profit trade association that has been providing leadership from the private sector in the delivery of climate investment policy and market mechanisms since 2008. Through climate policy, finance and investment, we are leading a coalition of private sector actors to mobilise the trillions that will enable a transition to a climate-resilient, low-carbon, sustainable economy.

Corporate Disclosures is online news and analysis website, covering the evolving nature of companies and public entities accounts, from the core traditional financial accounts reporting to modern day sustainable disclosures.

The content includes news from standard setters, regulators, accountancy firms and bodies, industry initiatives and corporates, on how the standards are created, how they are put in practices and how corporate comply with them.

www.corporatedisclosures.org

DevITjobs is the first job board built with Software Engineers in mind. The main goal of the company is to bring more transparency, openness and diversity to the British IT market.

DevITjobs is not only for Developers but for everyone working in the IT industry: Engineers, SAP and System Admins, Product Managers, QAs and UX/UI Designers! Learn more here: https://devitjobs.uk/jobs/Data/all

Eurosif is the leading pan-European sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) membership organisation. Based in Brussels, its mission is to promote sustainability through European financial markets. Eurosif works as a partnership of Europe-based national Sustainable Investment Fora (SIFs) Each of the SIFs has a broad and diverse membership including asset managers, institutional investors, index providers and ESG research & analytics providers with aggregate assets under management (AuM) amounting to over over €20 trillion in total assets.

Eurosif's activities involve contributing substantively to public policy and conducting research that enables a better understanding of sustainable investment and the obstacles encountered by sustainability-oriented investors. Eurosif and its members are committed to the growth and integrity of meaningful sustainable investment flows and support the ambition of European policymakers in enabling a fully transparent sustainable investment market through appropriate and well-designed regulation and industry practice.

https://www.eurosif.org/

The Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA) is a multi-member alliance seeking to identify & accelerate reliable ESG data needed to deploy global capital sustainably and in line with the requirements of regulators, citizens and the market now and in the future. FoSDA was formed in Davos in January 2020, spearheaded by Refinitiv and the World Economic Forum, with IIF, ASIFMA, Tsinghua University, OMFIF, GFMA, Climate Bonds Initiative, FinTech4good, Everledger, Oxford University, the Spatial Finance Initiative, Satellite Applications Catapult, Finance for Biodiversity, and GoImpact all joining as founding members. Website: https://futureofsustainabledata.com/about/

GRESB is a mission-driven and industry-led organization that provides actionable and transparent environmental, social and governance (ESG) data to financial markets. We collect, validate, score and benchmark ESG data to provide business intelligence, engagement tools and regulatory reporting solutions for investors, asset managers and the wider industry.

NordSIP stands for Nordic Sustainable Investment Platform. The platform serves as the information link and connection hub between institutional investors and managers offering sustainable investment products, and as a reference point for the high interest across the asset management spectrum and beyond, viewed from the Nordics.