ESG Data Solutions

SGA’s ESG carbon offerings involve the process of benchmarking, validation, and verification of carbon projects. Various carbon registries, like VCS, Gold Standard, and American Carbon Registry, are used to evaluate carbon adaptation and mitigation projects. SGA’s expertise lies in designing procedures, guidelines, and templates to extract valuable carbon-accounting procedures to substantiate project emissions and ESG carbon credits generated across a carbon project’s lifecycle. We offer a technical interpretation of various carbon mitigation projects collated for diverse sectors. Our services also involve risk analysis along with an upscale approach, thus making it visible in a standardized format.  

SGA streamlines the ESG EU taxonomy for corporates and capital market participants. With our ESG data and solution expertise, we assist corporates in assessing their economic activities by employing the criteria established by the Taxonomy Regulation. This helps to determine the proportion of a corporation's financial parameters linked to the assets or services associated with the qualified activities. This is the report that is to be disclosed by the corporation under the Taxonomy Regulation as a part of the disclosures they are mandated to make under the Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD). 

For financial market participants, SGA assists in identifying investments, comparing sustainability performance with Taxonomy thresholds, undertaking analysis on Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) and the Minimum Social Safeguards requirements, and calculating the final alignment figures.

Our offerings to the client incorporate all the steps for corporates followed by determining the weighting of each investee company in the portfolio and multiplying the weighting of each investee company by the proportion of its turnover, capital expenditure, or operating expenditure, which aligns with the EU ESG Taxonomy Regulation. This assists in reaching the point where the portfolio of the financial development is aligned with the Taxonomy Regulation. 

SGA aids clients in the selection of a corporation or fund for investment through multiple ESG screening criteria. Our screening gamut extends across sectors, positive and exclusionary parameters, and other unique ESG factors. Our positive ESG screening process helps to identify companies and portfolios where sustainability is truly embedded while being cautious of greenwashing.  

SGA’s controversy solutions analyze media and stakeholders of ESG controversies across 35+ ESG themes and 10 UNGC principles. We provide detailed summaries of our ESG controversy score and impact analysis, gather real-time reports through an automated news-crawling system, and create customized scoring frameworks to gauge the impact of the controversies. Our offerings incorporate preparing daily/weekly/monthly newsletters, designing event-based reports on controversies, publishing theme-based company-specific and/or industry-specific reports, and devising comprehensive reputational risk reports based on continuous controversy monitoring. We also manage bespoke research assignments for clients, e.g., controversy occurrence and impact on the company's share price.