Dataset

esg-risk-ratings

Issuer-level ESG risk scores evaluating unmitigated environmental, social and governance exposure across thousands of companies.

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Sustainalytics ESG Risk Ratings is a commercial dataset from Sustainalytics that provides environmental, social and governance risk scores for corporate issuers. It is intended to support ESG-aware investment and risk management workflows.

What this dataset contains

The dataset consists of Sustainalytics-branded ESG risk ratings assigned to issuers, organized under the descriptive tags esg-ratings, issuers and risk. It is delivered under a commercial license, meaning access typically requires a paid subscription rather than open redistribution. No row counts, coverage universe, or historical depth are stated in the supplied facts.

Structure and fields

The supplied facts do not list a schema, and the columns field is recorded as unknown, so specific field names cannot be confirmed. Based on standard Sustainalytics naming, datasets of this type typically include identifiers for the issuer and a numeric or categorical risk score, but those exact column names are not documented here. Any downstream use should rely on the publisher's official data dictionary rather than assumed fields.

How analysts use it

Because the underlying schema and coverage are not specified, only general use cases are supportable: ESG-integrated portfolio screens, controversy and risk overlays on existing holdings, and reporting against internal sustainability mandates. Investors should obtain the publisher's full column-level documentation before integrating the ratings into quantitative signals or backtests. Treat the ratings as one input alongside other ESG data sources rather than a standalone alpha signal.

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