As pressure continues to grow for the integration of ESG factors into company valuation and sustainable investing, to attract more funds, the call to investors and corporates to address ESG data quality, consistency and accuracy becomes more and more outspoken.

In contrast to credit ratings in the bond market, this is far the case for ESG ratings. Sustainable investors are often left in jeopardy due to the inconsistency gap from corporate disclosures to index providers and this creates huge challenges in building investment decisions.

To shed light on these obstacles and issues, we have invited Hilde Jenssen, Head of Fundamental Equities at Nordea Asset Management, Andrew Howard, Head of Sustainable Research at Schroders, Vitali Kalesnik, Partner, Head of Research – Europe at Research Affiliates and Anthony Abbotts, Group Sustainability Director at Rockwool Group to present, discuss and reflect on these topics.

At the seminar, we want to address the different perspectives of corporates, investors and researchers in addressing the ESG data quality and consistency. We will explore their differing views and challenges and discuss possible solutions and offer best practice examples. Some of the questions we seek to explore, are: Why do we experience, and what are the consequences in differences between reported data and estimated data from index providers? What types of data do investors consider to be efficient ESG data? Where are the challenges for corporate to produce and disclose relevant ESG data? What will new taxonomy regimes do for ratings and for corporates – and investment decisions? How does the future in ESG data look like?