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ESG & CSR

Responsible intelligence, clear accountability

We operate with integrity and discipline, giving you ESG-driven insight across emerging markets through trusted data and analysis.

Our commitment to ESG and CSR

ISI is committed to operating responsibly, acting with integrity, and building a business that supports sustainable outcomes. Our approach to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities, and our commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) is shown through our internal standards and the expectations you place on our data. This commitment is reflected in the insight we deliver through our platforms:

  • CEIC provides verified macro-level ESG intelligence, tracking countries’ progress across key indicators
  • EMIS gives you company-level visibility into ethical conduct, risk, and material events across developing markets
  • REDD delivers focused analysis on sustainable finance, ESG-linked bonds, and regulatory developments that influence responsible investment
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Sustainability

Our sustainability approach aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, specifically, Goal 12: Responsible Consumption, and Goal 13: Climate Action. From data storage and infrastructure to travel and supplier relationships, we take responsibility for how resources are used across our business.

We are in the process of baselining our carbon footprint to establish a clear and measurable view of our emissions. This supports our intention to submit a Science Based Target for emissions reduction. By establishing this baseline, we create accountability and a practical framework for climate action over time.

Through CEIC, we track climate exposure and investment in green technologies across countries. This supports structured comparisons and assessments of long-term environmental risk and opportunity.

Social

Our people are central to how we operate and the insight we deliver. As such, our social practices align with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing, Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities.

We promote good health and wellbeing through supportive working practices, clear policies, and access to resources. We invest in learning and development to support career progression and create sustainable employment.

Gender equality and reduced inequalities are addressed through inclusive recruitment and training programmes. With teams based across multiple regions, we value diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. By supporting decent work, we strengthen ISI and make positive contributions to the economies and communities in which we operate.

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Governance

Strong governance is essential to earning your trust. Consequently, our approach aligns with Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions and Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals.

We operate in line with local laws and regulatory requirements, applying these standards across the markets in which we work. We run training programmes for all staff to reinforce ethical conduct, regulatory awareness, and responsible decision-making. These standards extend to how we work with partners and suppliers, encouraging accountable collaboration across our value chain.

By embedding governance and responsible partnerships into our operations, we support stable institutions and credible market participation.

Ethics

We act with integrity in all our business relationships and maintain systems that support responsible decision-making.

We are committed to preventing modern slavery and human trafficking across our operations and supply chains. This commitment reflects our responsibility to uphold human rights and operate to high ethical standards, regardless of geography.

Our approach is set out in our Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement, which explains the steps we take to identify risk and promote ethical practices across our business.

Read our Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement

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Our ESG approach for clients

Our commitment to ESG and CSR is reflected in the insight we deliver through our products.

  • The macro view

    CEIC brings together the hard facts and data around countries’ ESG credentials and their progress against international targets. Our teams collect data from a combination of international and high-frequency sources to enable comparison or generate ratings—covering air pollution, gender equality, and investment in green technology—to compile a unique set of data that highlights countries’ long-term potential and the biggest questions shaping future decades.

  • Insight at company level

    Engaging in business relationships with ethical companies is an increasingly important area of focus for organisations. EMIS local content teams have developed the most comprehensive news service covering business events in developing countries, with news spanning up to ten years—making it easier to select ethical and sustainable third parties, monitor news events, and better mitigate risk.

  • Sustainable investment insight

    REDD teams produce monthly and annual reports focused on cross-border sustainable bonds issued out of Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa—highlighting innovations in the ESG bond market and breaking down issuance volume by region, label, grade, among other factors—alongside legal reports analysing ESG-related legislation and its implications across emerging markets.

  • Global investor sentiment

    EPFR delivers a clear pulse on global investor sentiment by tracking fund flows and allocations across asset classes, regions, and themes. By revealing where capital is moving—and where it is pulling back—EPFR helps investors and policymakers identify shifts in risk appetite, conviction, and emerging opportunities. From ESG and decarbonisation strategies to emerging and developed markets, EPFR’s data illuminates market trends and critical inflection points at both macro and granular levels.

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