Library Help: Teaching and learning

We can group environmental, social and governance (ESG) resources into two kinds:

• ESG scores (quantitative)
• ESG reports and literature (qualitative)

The University of Manchester subscribes to several specialist financial databases which provide access to historic ESG scores and reports. Many of our literature sources you may already be familiar with contain reports on ESG matters relating to specific companies or industries. There are several free or open data sources to consider.

Specialist financial databases with ESG data

• MSCI ESG KLD via WRDS provides ratings data for North American companies. 

  • KLD was discontinued on 1 January 2019. Unfortunately, we do not know if and when the successor product MSCI ESG Risk Rating will become available.
     

• LSEG/Refinitiv ESG (formerly ASSET4) via Datastream or via Workspace covers more than 10,000 companies worldwide.
  • Read more about LSEG ESG features and LSEG ESG methodology
  • In Datastream Navigator, explore datatypes under Equities » ESG.
  • Note, we do not have LSEG/Refinitiv ESG via WRDS.
     
• Beyond Ratings ESG via Datastream has over 75,000 economics series that cover ESG, climate and risk at sovereign level, based on FTSE Russell index families.
  • Read more about Beyond Ratings.
  • In Datastream Navigator, explore series under Economics » Macroeconomic ESG Indicators » Beyond Ratings.
     
• Bloomberg provides a Bloomberg ESG Score for companies. It has corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports.
  • Read more about Bloomberg ESG features
     
• S&P Capital IQ Pro (formerly S&P Global Market Intelligence) provides ESG information for banks and financial services firms only.
   
• BoardEx via WRDS includes ESG information relating to company directors.
   
• RepRisk via WRDS includes reports of ESG issues for over 195,000 listed and non-listed firms.

Business & Management ESG literature

The following are databases which are useful sources of both academic and practitioner focused journal articles. You will find further details together with guidance on the interfaces within the Specialist Library Support section of our website.

• EBSCO: Business Source Premier
• Emerald Insight
• ProQuest: ABI Inform
• Science Direct
• Web of Science
• Wiley Online Library

Open or free ESG reports sources

• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI): Sustainability Disclosure Database has 63,000+ sustainability reports (with 38,000 released under the GRI) from 15,000+ companies from around the world. Latest data is for December 2020.
• CorporateRegister.com is a collection of 130,000+ corporate responsibility reports from 21,000+ organizations. Requires registration (free).

The following sources were taken from a page on ESG data and rankings from the University of Toronto, and updated:

• 2020 GlobeScan/SustainAbility Global Leaders Survey
  An annual ranking of corporate leaders, based on a survey of experts.
• Corporate Knights: Global 100
  Links to this magazine's annual rankings or listings of the world's 'most sustainable' corporations. Rankings date back to 2003.
• Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2023
  The "only global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)". Measures performance across four broad areas: research, stewardship, outreach and teaching.
• Yale 2022 Environmental Performance Index
  This index uses 40 indicators across 11 issue categories and three policy objectives to rank 180 countries on "environmental health and ecosystem vitality."
• Robeco Country Sustainability Rankings
  Summary data for individual countries ranked on a wide range of ESG metrics. Last updated April 2023.

Open or free ESG data sources

• Clean Air Markets Program Data (EPA)
• CSRHub: CSR Ratings: Data Sources 
  Consensus ESG ratings and corporate sustainability reports for over 32,000 companies. Some of the data contained may not be free.