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Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indices

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An overview of Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indices

Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Indices help you mitigate and assess the risk of companies against ESG factors and help socially responsible investors to navigate around ESG risks.

Key Facts

Geographical coverage

Global

History

From 2008

Data format

CSV

Delimited

GZIP

HTML

JSON

Python

User Interface

XML

Zip Archive

Delivery mechanism

API

Desktop

Excel

FTP

SFTP

Data frequency

Continuous

Daily

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Features & Benefits

What you get with Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indices

Individual ESG Pillars - Allows investors with specific CSR requirements or mandates to more accurately benchmark their portfolios.
Based on 'dynamic' ratings - Featuring 600+ key indicators of ESG performance, company ratings are easy to understand.
Top ESG rated companies - Results in a more diversified, less volatile benchmark, which mirrors the performance of major global indices.
Real-time or End-of-day - Can be tracked by listed investment products such as Exchange Traded Funds, as well as for benchmarking purposes.
Download ratings - Allows investment managers, advisors, students and the media an affordable way to rate the ESG performance of a portfolio of stocks.

RELEVANT USE CASES

Sustainable finance use case

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How it works

Accessing the dataset

This dataset can be used by the following products. Talk to us to learn more about different packages and offerings.

Products

LSEG DataScope Select

LSEG DataScope Select is a unique platform that offers intuitive, cross-asset and timely access to all of LSEG reference and pricing data. Data is delivered by LSEG DataScope Select across the following platforms: HTTP/HTTPS, SFTP and API.

Data Formats:: CSV; XML; Zip Archive; GZIP; Delimited

Delivery Mechanisms:: FTP; API; SFTP

Service Frequencies:: Real time prices

Eikon

LSEG Eikon delivers a powerful combination of information, analytics and exclusive news on financial markets – delivered in an elegant and intuitive desktop and mobile interface.

Data Formats:: CSV; XML; JSON; User Interface; Python

Delivery Mechanisms:: API; Desktop; Excel

Service Frequencies:: Real time; Real time delayed; Daily

LSEG Datastream

Welcome to Datastream, our historical financial database with over 40 million individual instruments or indicators across all major asset classes, including 15 million economic indicators. It features 100+ years of data, across 175 countries – the information and tools you need to interpret market trends, economic cycles, and the impact of world events. Datastream is available via Eikon DFO, Eikon R&A, Workspace for Students, Workspace for Academics, Workspace for Wealth. Datafeed access is via Datastream Data Loader & Datastream Web Service (which includes Matlab, EViews, Python, R & codebook integration) Client desktop tools include DFO (Datastream for Office) Datastream Charting, including Chartbook Navigator - Search & Navigation tool

Data Formats:: CSV; HTML

Delivery Mechanisms:: API; Desktop; Excel

Service Frequencies:: Daily

LSEG Data Platform

The LSEG Data Platform delivers a single, consistent data experience to access, distribute and build with LSEG and third party data. With cloud-enabled platform capabilities and flexible distribution options, the LSEG Data Platform enables faster deployment of applications, greater scale with workflow-critical analytics and a reimagined approach to technology innovation, data distribution and management

Data Formats:: JSON

Delivery Mechanisms:: API

Service Frequencies:: Real time; Real time delayed; Daily

LSEG Workspace

Workspace delivers a powerful combination of information, analytics and exclusive news on financial markets – delivered in an elegant and intuitive desktop and mobile interface.

Data Formats:: CSV; XML; JSON; User Interface; Python

Delivery Mechanisms:: API; Desktop; Excel

Service Frequencies:: Real time; Real time delayed; Daily

Knowledge Direct

Knowledge Direct API uses industry standard protocols (SOAP and XML) to deliver LSEG content for inclusion within internal or external client applications. Using XML request/response, clients can access a comprehensive offering of company and economic Data (fundamentals, estimates, significant developments, etc.), market data, news and quotes and the associated capabilities, including charts, search and timeseries.

Data Formats:: XML

Delivery Mechanisms:: API

Service Frequencies:: Real time; Real time delayed; Daily

LSEG DataScope Plus

LSEG DataScope Plus delivers bulk end of day pricing and intraday reference and entity data that updates automatically every 15 minutes based to ensure clients’ security masters are current and accurate.