Benchmarking Intelligence

Unlock opportunities to improve your sustainability performance and disclosures

Leverage unique expertise and data-driven insights to identify performance gaps, align with standards, and integrate sustainability into business strategy.

Drive sustainability performance and deliver decision-useful disclosures

Our platform helps provide clarity and direction amidst this complexity. By offering access to investor-facing data and ratings, industry benchmarking, and guidance from our sustainability experts, we empower companies to measure and benchmark their disclosures and performance across the full spectrum of sustainability topics.

We guide clients to identify and address gaps, meet transparency and accountability expectations, ultimately strengthening their position in a competitive market.


Companies face increasingly stringent demands from regulators, investors, financiers, business partners, consumers, and other stakeholders on their sustainability disclosures and scrutiny over their performance. Navigating these obligations and expectations can be overwhelming.


How our solutions can help

Leverage industry-specific benchmarking intelligence

  • Discover how you stack up against the competition and pinpoint opportunities for enhancement
  • Gain insight into how investors view your performance through ratings, rankings, and controversies assessments
  • Identify emerging themes and learn more about stakeholder expectations and industry good practice

Proactively align your disclosures with market expectations

  • Gain access to disclosure best practices to identify opportunities for improvement and address stakeholder questions
  • Stay ahead of evolving disclosure requirements
  • Align your climate-related disclosures with established frameworks

Identify your sustainability rating improvement opportunities

  • Leverage in-depth analysis of underlying rating data to uncover key areas for program enhancement
  • Uncover and address hidden disclosure gaps
  • Craft a compelling narrative for investors and key stakeholders, and integrate data insights into your presentations and reports

Assess your exposure to sustainability risks in your own operations and along your value chain

  • Identify potential vulnerabilities in your supply chain through uniquely comprehensive datasets and strong analytical tools (e.g., GHG emissions, controversies exposure, ESG performance) before they impact your business
  • Analyze peer disclosure gaps to understand how they are managing risks and addressing key issues
  • Benchmark your risk against industry peers and leverage the insight to improve your own risk management strategy

See your company’s rating

Get access to your corporate ratings to see how investors and other stakeholders view your sustainability performance and disclosures.


Our Approach

Our approach to corporate sustainability

We leverage ESG ratings and data, industry benchmarks, and performance analytics, coupled with expert advisory services, to help empower companies to identify and mitigate risks, capitalize on opportunities, and proactively meet evolving stakeholder expectations and regulatory requirements.

See how industry leaders implement corporate sustainability practices globally.

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.

Explore our solutions

We are uniquely positioned to customize the right suite of solutions to meet your specific needs

Materiality Assessment

Use our data-driven solution to conduct materiality assessments that cover impact, financial, or double materiality perspectives.

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Benchmarking Intelligence

Access corporate ratings, scores, and the underlying data to benchmark your company performance and disclosure practices.

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Climate Services

Work with our climate specialists on key climate initiatives, including regulatory compliance, carbon accounting, physical and transition climate risk assessments, and target setting.

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Carbon Accounting

Collect, calculate, and manage greenhouse gas emissions across Scopes 1, 2, and 3 to deliver credible, decision-useful disclosures.

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Sustainability Reporting

Streamline sustainability disclosures with a reporting platform designed to support IFRS, CSRD, VSME, and other complex regulatory frameworks.

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Frequently Asked Questions

ISS-Corporate provides access to sustainability ratings, ESG performance data, peer benchmarking intelligence, and investor-facing sustainability assessments to help organizations understand how their sustainability performance and disclosures compare with peers and stakeholder expectations.

Clients can access their ISS STOXX Corporate Rating, which evaluates sustainability performance across environmental, social, and governance topics using a best-in-class methodology. Benchmarking tools help companies compare performance, identify strengths and weaknesses, and better understand how sustainability practices may be viewed by investors and other stakeholders.

ISS-Corporate helps organizations understand the factors that influence sustainability ratings and identify opportunities for improvement. Using rating analytics, peer benchmarking, and disclosure reviews, companies can evaluate underlying rating drivers, uncover disclosure gaps, and compare their performance against industry peers and leaders. These insights help organizations strengthen sustainability programs, improve transparency, and better align disclosures with investor and stakeholder expectations.

Benchmarking helps organizations understand how their sustainability performance compares with peers and how investors may evaluate sustainability-related risks, opportunities, and disclosures. By comparing ratings, disclosures, and performance metrics against industry peers, companies can identify areas for improvement, prepare for investor discussions, and develop more informed communications.

These insights can help strengthen sustainability narratives in investor presentations, sustainability reports, and other stakeholder communications.

Yes. ISS-Corporate provides sustainability data, research, and benchmarking insights that help organizations evaluate potential risks across their operations and value chains.

Organizations can assess issues such as greenhouse gas emissions exposure, controversy involvement, and broader sustainability performance indicators while comparing results against industry peers. These insights can help identify emerging risks, support risk management efforts, and inform sustainability strategy and reporting.

ISS-Corporate combines sustainability ratings and data, peer benchmarking, performance analytics, and advisory expertise to help organizations understand how their sustainability performance compares with market expectations. Rather than relying on a single metric, organizations can evaluate sustainability performance across multiple dimensions, identify trends, assess disclosure quality, and benchmark against industry peers.

This data-driven approach helps companies prioritize improvements, address stakeholder concerns, and support sustainability decision-making.

Benchmarking helps organizations evaluate how their disclosures compare with peers, industry leaders, and evolving stakeholder expectations. Companies can help identify disclosure gaps, assess reporting practices, and review emerging sustainability topics gaining attention from investors and other stakeholders. These insights support more complete, transparent, and decision-useful disclosures while helping organizations align reporting with recognized sustainability frameworks and market practices.

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