The right intelligence to define your sustainability strategy
Develop targeted sustainability strategies that align with stakeholder expectations and satisfy regulations, while supporting business growth and attracting capital.
Making sustainability part of an effective, long-term strategy
Our platform gives you the tools to not only meet the demands and reporting requirements of consumers, regulators, employees and business partners, but to attract capital from investors who prioritize ESG and sustainability. In turn, you can align with sustainable finance regulations and stakeholder expectations. With advanced analytics, you’ll be able to assess risks and impacts, identify opportunities, and confidently navigate the evolving business landscape, positioning your company for long-term success and resilience.
Assess. Measure. Act. Report —
a proven framework for progress
The sustainability management journey takes year-round focus and effort. Our approach is grounded in a repeatable, flexible framework designed to meet organizations wherever they are in that journey.
This four-part cycle ensures that each step builds on the last—leading to better data, better strategy, and better outcomes.
Solutions to empower you to take charge of your sustainability journey
Understand where you stand in the market
- Access the same database used by many investors to benchmark your ESG performance against industry peers
- Draw from our sector-specific expertise to gain insights and identify areas of improvement
- Understand investor expectations and respond to shareholder proposals
Develop a roadmap for sustainability management and reporting
- Identify material impacts, risks, and opportunities to inform your sustainability strategy
- Conduct gap analysis against key sustainability disclosure and due diligence requirements
- Make data-driven decisions about your organization’s practices
Strengthen your sustainability efforts in specialized areas
- Enhance your organization’s programs in priority areas such as climate risk management or value chain due diligence
- Leverage support from our experts in conducting targeted analytics
- Align your programs with regulatory requirements
Optimize your reporting and disclosures
- Review best-in-class examples to understand best practices as you develop your own disclosure strategies, policies, and targets
- Align your disclosures with sustainability regulations and standards
- Get feedback on your draft disclosures from experienced advisors
See how industry leaders implement corporate sustainability practices globally.
Our approach to corporate sustainability
We believe that sustainability is a natural result of a resilient organization with a long-term outlook. Investors and market stakeholders are increasingly seeking businesses that integrate sustainability into their core practices. Our approach combines advanced SaaS solutions for analytics and reporting with expert advisory services—empowering you to develop and implement effective sustainability strategies. By strengthening sustainability practices across your organization, you’ll not only meet market demands but also build a foundation for long-term success.
Case Studies
We are uniquely positioned to customize the right suite of solutions to meet your specific needs
ISS– Corporate licenses and applies
the IFRS® Sustainability Disclosure Standards,
SICS and the SASB® Standards in our work.
the IFRS® Sustainability Disclosure Standards,
SICS and the SASB® Standards in our work.
ISS STOXX Corporate Rating Named Sustainability Ratings Solutions Tool of the Year in the Environmental Finance Sustainable Investment Awards 2026
The ISS STOXX Corporate Rating is provided to institutional investors through ISS STOXX Sustainability, supporting more informed investment decisions. It evaluates companies across their corporate value chain and assigns a Performance Scale rating from A+ to D-, based on sustainability performance on an absolute best-in-class basis. Separately, ISS-Corporate provides companies with direct access to their ISS STOXX Corporate Rating, along with a suite of tools that deliver a clear, holistic view of their sustainability performance. These tools enable peer benchmarking and help identify strategic areas for improvement. Learn more here.
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Frequently Asked Questions
ISS-Corporate’s approach to sustainability management is built around a flexible, integrated framework designed to help organizations assess performance, prioritize action, and strengthen disclosures over time.
The framework includes four connected stages:
- Assess: Benchmark sustainability performance and understand how your organization compares with peers and stakeholder expectations.
- Measure: Identify material topics, evaluate gaps, and establish a roadmap for improvement.
- Act: Manage sustainability risks and opportunities through targeted initiatives, including climate, governance, and other sustainability-related priorities.
- Report: Support sustainability disclosures and reporting aligned with applicable frameworks, standards, and stakeholder expectations.
This approach helps organizations move from insight to action while creating a foundation for credible sustainability reporting and decision-making.
ISS-Corporate helps organizations better understand how investors and other stakeholders assess sustainability performance and disclosures.
Companies can benchmark sustainability performance against peers, evaluate sustainability-related risks and opportunities, monitor evolving stakeholder expectations, and assess how sustainability practices align with market standards and sustainable finance considerations. These insights help organizations strengthen sustainability strategies, enhance disclosures, and support engagement with investors and other stakeholders.
ISS-Corporate provides access to sustainability performance data, peer benchmarking, research, controversy monitoring, climate-related data, and sustainability ratings covering thousands of companies globally.
Companies can access their ISS STOXX Corporate Rating, which evaluates sustainability performance across key environmental, social, and governance topics using a best-in-class methodology. The platform also provides insight into underlying rating drivers, enabling organizations to better understand performance strengths, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
Clients have access to sustainability specialists who can help interpret platform data, reporting requirements, benchmarking results, and sustainability trends.
Our approach combines advanced SaaS solutions for analytics and reporting with expert advisory services. ISS-Corporate’s sustainability experts provide guidance on topics such as sustainability reporting, materiality, climate-related disclosures, regulatory developments, and sustainability strategy. Depending on the services selected, organizations may also engage advisory specialists for more tailored support, including assessments, disclosure reviews, reporting projects, and sustainability program development.
ISS-Corporate supports organizations reporting against a range of sustainability reporting frameworks and standards, including ESRS/CSRD, ISSB (IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards), EU Taxonomy, and VSME.
Our sustainability solutions help organizations evaluate reporting requirements, identify disclosure gaps, collect relevant information, and prepare reporting outputs aligned with applicable frameworks. This enables companies to manage reporting obligations more efficiently while supporting consistency and scalability across multiple reporting standards.
ISS-Corporate helps organizations prepare for sustainability regulations by identifying disclosure gaps, assessing reporting readiness, and supporting alignment with applicable requirements and standards, including CSRD. Companies can evaluate current disclosures against reporting requirements, benchmark disclosures and practices against peers, access reporting guidance and examples, and develop more structured reporting processes.
ISS-Corporate advisors can also provide feedback and insight to help organizations strengthen disclosures and navigate evolving regulatory expectations.
Sometimes seeing is believing.
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