Bloomberg - Bloomberg Sustainable Finance Solutions
Data category
- Environmental data
- Governance data
- Indices/Exchange data
- Rankings
- Ratings
- Research data
- Social data
The data offers solutions for:
- Carbon footprinting
- Climate scenario analysis
- Environmental impact analysis and insight
- Geospatial/location data
- Investment decisions and portfolio insight
- Nature-based information
- Nature-based information: Biodiversity
- Nature-based information: Land use
- Nature-based information: Water
- Norms-based screening
- Physical risk
- Reporting: CSRD
- Reporting: EU Regulations
- Reporting: ISSB standards
- Reporting: Impact
- Reporting: Other Regulations
- Reporting: SEC climate
- Reporting: SFDR
- Reporting: TCFD
- Reporting: TNFD
- Reporting: UN SDGs
- Social impact analysis and insight
- Temperature alignment
- Transition plan assessments
Who are the data users?
- Corporates
- Financial institutions
- Government
- Investors
- Trustees
Brief description of the data offering
Bloomberg’s sustainability data, analytics and solutions span company-reported data, regulatory compliance data, sustainable debt, physical and transition climate risks, nature and biodiversity risk, carbon data, funds, indices and more. Clients can readily access this data as well as research from Bloomberg Intelligence and BloombergNEF on the Bloomberg Terminal. The data and analytics are also available via Data License for enterprise-wide use.
In addition, Bloomberg also provides a climate risk management solutions, MARS Climate, a new module of risk management suite MARS, which enables users to assess portfolio vulnerabilities and opportunities related to climate change and perform regulatory reporting.
The sustainability data coverage is distinguished by its depth and breadth, and includes:
- Reported sustainability data for 16,000+ companies (represents 94% of global market capitalization)
- Carbon emissions estimates for 130,000+ companies and forecasts for more than 67,000 companies
- Transition risk analytics for 70,000+ companies
- Physical risk analytics for 48,000+ companies
- Nature risk analytics for 50,000+ companies
- Sustainable debt data for 150k+ instruments across all asset classes, with impact and allocation datasets providing transparency on the actual use of impact bond proceeds
- 15,000+ companies covered by Bloomberg’s data-driven and transparent ESG scores
- 18+ years of historical data
Invest in a more resilient future, cross-asset ESG and climate indices
Bloomberg’s sustainable index offerings are built on our comprehensive, cross-asset indices, and Bloomberg’s index team collaborates with sustainability and climate research teams across the firm to produce and maintain strategic, and often groundbreaking, benchmarks. The team also collaborates with leading ESG ratings, framework and data providers, and investment managers to create index alternatives that meet the diverse needs of investors.
Enhancing operations for the full picture with DL+ ESG Manager
Bloomberg’s Data License Plus (DL+) ESG Manager connects multi-vendor sustainability data to the full power of Bloomberg’s transparent, consistent and comparable sustainability data, as well as its reference, pricing and research datasets, resulting in greater data coverage and usability within customers’ workflows. The solution provides quick access to high-quality sustainability data and seamlessly links it to the full breadth of a customer’s investment universe.
Where and how do you source your data?
Bloomberg incorporates sustainable finance data from multiple sources so firms can look at sustainability holistically and in combination with other data factors informing their investment strategies.
Data sourcing
Bloomberg sources issuer-level data from companies’ annual reports, integrated annual reports, sustainability reports, stewardship/corporate governance reports, AGM results, press releases, policy documents, websites, and other publicly available documents.
For instrument-level data, Bloomberg sources information on sustainable debt directly from issuers and involved parties via frameworks, external reviews, and allocation and impact reports. Likewise, fund-level data such as holdings and SFDR classifications are collected from public sources.
These traditional sources are complemented by innovative datasets for environmental metrics such as physical risk and biodiversity. Bloomberg provides clients with actionable insights by sourcing these datasets from geospatial sustainability data providers, Bloomberg’s proprietary supply chain data and linking them to specific facilities and entities.
Quality control
Bloomberg’s global team of sustainable finance analysts run multi-layer quality controls to clean and standardize company reporting so it is readily usable for clients. This data is transparent and traceable to the original documents.
Bloomberg only uses sustainability data sourced from publicly available, company reported documents to calculate its ESG financial materiality scores.
BloombergNEF maintains updated country transition level data and renewable energy and finance project information through its network of industry relationships. Its analysts also publish New Energy Outlook reports which provide independent scenarios for the transition to a low-carbon economy covering electricity, industry, buildings and transport, and the key drivers shaping these sectors until 2050. Bloomberg Intelligence provides sustainability investment research across all asset classes written by 400 BI analysts.
Bloomberg’s sustainability data is fully integrated into Terminal applications designed for company analysis, including Financial Analysis (FA), Equity Screening (EQS), Research Management Solutions (RMS) and Portfolio & Risk Analytics (PORT), allowing clients to efficiently incorporate ESG into the investment process.
Access
Bloomberg’s dedicated sustainability function, {ESG <GO>} on the Bloomberg Terminal, and sustainability tabs within the description pages of equities, funds and fixed income instruments on {DES ESG <GO>} provides a quick snapshot of a company’s fund or issuer’s current and historical sustainability performance using the most material and best reported metrics.
What is the cost for your data offering?
Access to Bloomberg sustainability data and analytics, research and news are included in the cost of the Bloomberg Terminal. Bloomberg’s sustainability data is also available for enterprise use via Data License, and can be accessed through Bloomberg’s ready-to-use data website, data.Bloomberg.com. To learn more, visit our website www.bloomberg.com/professional/product/esg-data/ or email us at [email protected].
What are the key attributes that differentiate the data you offer?
Bloomberg’s sustainable finance solutions stand out for their:
- Transparency, as users have click-through access to the source documents for reported data, and access to full methodologies for derived data.
- Coverage depth, with carbon emissions estimates for 130,000+ companies, carbon emission forecasts for over 67,000 companies, transition risk analytics for 70,000+ companies, physical risk analytics for 48,000+ companies, nature risk analytics for 50,000+ companies and 120,000+ sustainable debt instruments.
- Integration across workflows, as climate transition and physical risk analytics are integrated with risk management solution MARS Climate, and carbon emissions, Principal Adverse Indicators, and ESG scores are integrated into portfolio management solution PORT.
- Partnerships with third party data providers such as Riskthinking.AI for its highly granular dataset that accounts for every climate scenario endorsed by the IPCC, the Natural History Museum for its science-based Biodiversity Intactness Indicator and Viridios Group for its carbon project-level data, sustainability-aligned credit assessments, and robust pricing intelligence.
Data quality excellence
As one of the world's leading financial data providers and experts on the quality and usefulness of corporate sustainability disclosures, Bloomberg has a deep understanding of the challenges surrounding sustainability data, such as lack of availability, transparency and comparability. Bloomberg’s focus on quality allows clients to develop new sustainability products and meet their regulatory obligations with confidence in the underlying data. We source our data from publicly available sources. For the data we provide we employ pre-publish logical & statistical checks implemented to spot abnormal spikes and outliers as well as post-publish checks conducted by our team of experienced Bloomberg ESG data analysts.
Holistic insights achieved through superior interoperability
Bloomberg’s sustainability data provides superior interoperability due to its industry-leading entity data/corporate structure data alleviating a top data management challenge so firms can look at their sustainability data holistically and combined with other investment factors. Additionally, intuitive company level insights are available on the Bloomberg Terminal so clients can consider sustainability factors within a broader context.
Additionally, via DL+ ESG Manager, Bloomberg connects customers’ sustainability data to the full power of Bloomberg’s datasets and data from vendor partners resulting in greater data coverage and usability for investors.
Bloomberg’s proprietary ESG scores, news, and research arms also use this data to help inform client’s strategy decisions. Customers can readily access Bloomberg’s sustainability data on the Bloomberg Terminal or across their enterprise via Data License.
Most recent significant update:
Bloomberg has significantly expanded its sustainable finance solutions in 2024–2025 across climate and nature. Notable developments include:
- Expanded transition analytics with the Transition Risk Assessment Company Tool (TRACT) from BloombergNEF, delivering forward-looking revenue risk analysis for over 70,000 companies.
- Enhanced physical risk analytics developed with Riskthinking.AI now translate exposure into asset replacement value, covering 48,000 companies and incorporating stochastic models validated by 2023 climate extremes.
- Nature and biodiversity data for over 45,000 companies, including water and deforestation risks analytics and geospatial overlays of the Natural History Musem’s Biodiversity Intactness Index with Bloomberg’s proprietary asset-level data to analyze exposure to ecosystem degradation.
- Expanded carbon markets data through a partnership with Viridios Group, adding deep project-level data and pricing analytics on voluntary carbon credits, addressing growing regulatory and investor demand for offset transparency.
- A climate risk management solution, MARS Climate, which supports climate risk analysis of portfolios, regulatory reporting and investment risk management across over 95,000 companies.
- Expanding datasets for use-of-proceeds bonds (such as green bonds) and sustainability-linked bonds. These datasets can help investors report on the impact of their bond portfolios and appraise the credit risk and opportunities of coupon changes linked to sustainability targets.
These enhancements have resulted in industry analysts naming Bloomberg as a leader in sustainable finance data and climate analytics in multiple reports.
Planned future enhancements:
Bloomberg plans to enhance its offerings with the following features in coming months:
- A geolocation data service that will enable forward-looking analysis of physical climate risks across any set of user-defined locations.
- Expanded biodiversity overlays incorporating additional nature datasets such as land-use degradation, species risk, and proximity to protected habitats.
- Supply chain vulnerability analytics integrating upstream and downstream relationships across 120,000+ public and private entities to assess physical climate and nature-related risks.
- Enhanced regulatory reporting solutions supporting for data reported under CSRD and ISSB
What trends are you seeing in terms of customer demand?
Investors increasingly look for comprehensive sustainable data offerings that support their investment, compliance and risk assessment workflows. Specific trends include:
- Analytics that move beyond disclosure and enable investors to assess the financial materiality of sustainability factors for companies
- Heightened focus on carbon markets, driving interest in Bloomberg’s new carbon offset datasets and pricing analytics
Contacts
Anna Schoeffler, Global corporate communications manager for Sustainable Finance Solutions, [email protected]
