Product overview
Bloomberg’s Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG Data) dataset offers ESG metrics and ESG disclosure scores for more than 11,800 companies in 100+ countries for over 410,000 active securities. The product includes as-reported data and derived ratios as well as sector and country-specific data points. In addition to the extensive ongoing data coverage, we provide historical data going back to 2006.
Bloomberg provides ESG data organized into 2,000+ fields that span several key sustainability topics, including but not limited to:
- Air Quality
- Climate Change Water & Energy Management
- Materials & Waste
- Health & Safety
- Audit Risk & Oversight
- Compensation
- Diversity
- Board Independence, Structure & Tenure
- Shareholders’ Rights
Features and benefits
Global coverage
More than 11,800 companies globally, approximately 88% of global equity market capitalization.
More high-quality, accurate data available to enhance asset allocation and risk management processes.
Broad transparent coverage of ESG topics
Over 600 company-reported and -derived key performance indicators across different ESG topics such as climate change, water, health & safety and governance.
Perform more rigorous and quantitative analysis with full transparency into underlying details rather than relying only on subjective scores.
Standardization
Bloomberg analysts standardize as-reported ESG data and ensure that it covers 80% of company operations and workforce so that it is representative of a company’s operational impact.
Reduces workload involved in processing the data set by making all data consistent in terms of units. Also ensures that company-reported data is comparable across time and across companies.
Daily updated content
Certain board of directors and executive team detail can be updated daily based on corporate filings, company websites and news sources.
React in real time to material governance information.
Historical data
Data since 2006, including past coverage of legal entities that are no longer active.
Leverage historical data to analyze the performance of companies over time or to reveal trends and provide a broader perspective to your research.
Bloomberg IDs
ESG data can be easily linked to other company datasets through Bloomberg IDs.
Easily integrate ESG factors by leveraging IDs already used for other data sets.
Accessing our datasets
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