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: Other Regulations
- Reporting: SEC climate
- Reporting: SFDR
- Reporting: TCFD
- Reporting: TNFD
- Social impact analysis and insight
- Temperature alignment
- Transition plan assessments
- Deforestation; transition risk; fund scores; supply chains; value-at-risk
Who are the data users?
- Corporates
- Financial institutions
- Government
- Investors
- Trustees
What asset class does the data cover?
- Commodities
- Credit/loans
- Fixed income
- Forestry
- Listed equity
- Real assets
Brief description of the data offering
Bloomberg’s Sustainable Finance Solutions provide financial professionals with a comprehensive range of sustainability insights that enable them to identify risks and opportunities, make well-informed investment and risk management decisions and meet regulatory requirements. The sustainability data coverage is distinguished by its depth and breadth, and includes:
- Company-reported sustainability data covering 95% of global market capitalisation
- ESG scores
- Carbon emissions estimates and forecasts
- Transition risk analytics
- Physical risk analytics
- Nature and biodiversity risk analytics
- Supply chain sustainability exposure data
- Sustainable debt data
- Funds data
- Regulatory reporting data
- Sustainability and climate indices
The key attributes of the offering are:
- Transition research and analytics from BloombergNEF (BNEF) and Bloomberg Intelligence
The integration of Bloomberg transition data and analytics alongside transition research from BNEF and Bloomberg Intelligence provides users with a more holistic view of the transition, including both carbon analytics and assessments of company exposure to changing market forces, technological shifts and regional policy changes.
- Integration in financial workflows and enterprise solutions
Sustainability data and climate risk analytics are provided alongside Bloomberg's financial and reference data, news, research and workflow tools on the Bloomberg Terminal, and via Data License. They are also integrated within enterprise solutions such as Bloomberg’s portfolio and risk management PORT and MARS, to help users assess how climate scenarios may impact the market value of securities, build portfolios and perform stress testing. BQuant Desktop, a high-performance compute environment that provides programmatic access to Bloomberg data and analytics supports use cases including fund comparisons against benchmarks and custom portfolio-level sustainability risk analysis.
- AI-powered insights
ASKB, Bloomberg’s new conversational AI interface (currently in beta), redefines how investors interact with climate intelligence. By unifying the Bloomberg Terminal’s interconnected data and content, including BloombergNEF and Bloomberg Intelligence research, ASKB helps users surface the climate intelligence they need to accelerate their investment process.
Where and how do you source your data?
Bloomberg incorporates sustainable finance data from multiple sources so firms can look at sustainability holistically. The company’s AI capabilities further support sustainability data extraction, enrichment and analytics from company reports, filings, news and other structured and unstructured sources.
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 transition risk, physical risk and biodiversity. BloombergNEF contributes transition risk analytics, energy transition data, forecasts and insights, while Bloomberg Intelligence provides sector research across industries. Bloomberg also provides clients with physical and nature risk insights by sourcing datasets from geospatial sustainability data providers and combining them with Bloomberg’s asset-level and proprietary supply chain data.
Bloomberg’s global team of sustainable finance specialists run multi-layer quality controls to clean and standardize company reporting so it is readily usable for clients. Data is provided with transparency to underlying source documents for validating datapoints.
Bloomberg only uses sustainability data sourced from publicly available, company-reported documents to calculate its ESG financial materiality scores. Scored companies can easily access the methodologies and validate the data used to compute their scores through a web portal.
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 offering stands out for:
- The integration of Bloomberg climate data and analytics alongside transition research from BNEF and Bloomberg Intelligence, providing users with a more holistic view if he transition, including both carbon analytics and assessments of company exposure to changing market forces, technological shifts and regional policy changes.
- The integration of sustainability data and climate risk analytics in financial workflows and enterprise portfolio and risk management solutions, enabling users to assess how climate scenarios may impact the market value of securities, build portfolios and perform stress testing.
- AI-powered insights through ASKB, Bloomberg’s new conversational AI interface, enabling users to connect company disclosures with proprietary insights from BNEF and Bloomberg Intelligence research, and interrogate financial and sustainability data using natural language.
- 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. We source data from publicly available sources and employ pre-publish logical & statistical checks to spot abnormal spikes and outliers as well as post-publish checks conducted by our team of experienced Bloomberg data analysts. Users have click-through access to the source documents for reported data, and access to comprehensive methodologies for derived data.
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, 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.
Most recent significant update:
Bloomberg has significantly expanded its sustainable finance capabilities in 2025–2026 to include:
- Expanded Transition Toolkit with the integration of transition risk scenarios and stress testing powered by BNEF's Transition Risk Assessment Company Tool (TRACT) into PORT, temporal carbon attribution analytics also integrated into PORT, a range of new analytics including: clean energy and fossil fuel revenue exposure, low-carbon capital expenditure and climate alignment scores.
- Expanded portfolio and climate risk management capabilities through the integration of climate scenarios and stress testing for physical and transition risk in portfolio management solution PORT and MARS Climate, a new module in our Multi-Asset Risk System (MARS) enterprise solutions suite, providing buy- and sell-side portfolio and risk managers with integrated physical and transition risk analysis to help quantify climate-related risks and opportunities.
- A new sustainability supply chain dataset offering insights into the environmental and operational risks facing suppliers and their customers, accessible through the Terminal and Enterprise Data feeds. Building on this dataset, Bloomberg added functionality in 2025 allowing users to screen suppliers based on reported and estimated GHG emissions, evaluate potential climate hazards and identify water scarcity risks.
- Enhanced nature and biodiversity datasets enabling investors to better understand how ecosystem degradation near corporate operations may affect supply chains and long-term enterprise value. The offering links Bloomberg’s company location datasets to the Biodiversity Intactness Index, developed by the Natural History Museum in London and now offers a time-series perspective, enabling users to analyze five-year trends in biodiversity and evaluate conditions around corporate assets.
- Deeper integration of ESG scores and materiality framework components across the Terminal, including point-in-time history in Bloomberg Query Language and the introduction of score inheritance, which extends scores to more than 200,000 subsidiaries and related entities globally.
- Greater transparency around post-issuance allocation and impact reporting for sustainable debt, a dedicated indicator to advance market transparency in response to new green bond assessment rules introduced by the Hong Kong Insurance Authority, and new functionality to identify instruments aligned with the European Union Green Bond Standard.
- Expanded carbon markets data through an agreement with Viridios Group to provide high-quality project-level data, sustainability-aligned credit assessments, and robust pricing intelligence, as well as new carbon pricing data from General Index and carbon ratings from BeZero, Calyx Global, and Sylvera.
Planned future enhancements:
As sustainable finance continues to evolve, Bloomberg plans to continue to innovate and enhance its offerings with new sustainability analytics and deeper integration into its financial workflows and evolving AI tools.
What trends are you seeing in terms of customer demand?
Investors continue to look for solutions helping them assess and manage climate risks,and meet regulatory reporting obligations, notably in jurisdictions that have adopted ISSB reporting. We also see demand from investors seeking to manage transition risk while maintaining portfolio diversification and investing broadly across markets, and looking for more detailed insights into how transition differs across jurisdictions.
Contacts
Anna Schoeffler, Global corporate communications manager for Sustainable Finance Solutions, [email protected]
