S&P Global launches new ESG and sustainability unit
S&P Global Sustainable is a single source of key sustainability intelligence to help organisations navigate the transition to a low carbon, sustainable and equitable future.
April 27, 2021 SP Global Sustainable is a new, centralised group representing SP Global’s integrated sustainability offerings, led by a team providing views on sustainability, including key ESG and climate topics. It aims to incorporate the firm’s benchmarking, analytics, evaluations and indices capabilities to give organisations a 360-degree view to help them achieve their sustainability goals. “The launch of SP Global Sustainable signifies the critical intersection between sustainability and business performance,” said Martina Cheung, head of SP Global Sustainable and president of SP Global Market Intelligence.
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Galvanizing international collaboration will be critical to curbing climate change. But countries committed to the 2016 Paris Agreement have made slow progress in aligning their climate policy to achieving net-zero emissions globally by the second half of this century.
The trends that have reverberated across the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) space namely the path to net zero, addressing climate risk and funding the energy transition via sustainable finance, and setting global ESG reporting standards will likely be at the top of the agenda as the U.S. attempts to stimulate bolder collective climate action on the global stage today. The country is virtually chairing the inaugural Leaders Summit on Climate of 40 world leaders, including China’s President Xi Jinping, at a time when the need to protect t
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NEW YORK, April 22, 2021 /3BL Media/ S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) announced today the launch of its new ESG and sustainability organization: S&P Global Sustainable1. This new centralized group represents S&P Global s integrated sustainability offerings and is comprised of a dedicated team that provides comprehensive views on sustainability, including key ESG and climate topics. Sustainable1 brings together S&P Global s resources and full product suite of benchmarking, analytics, evaluations, and indices that provide customers with a 360-degree view to help achieve their sustainability goals. For well over a century, S&P Global has provided the markets with trusted insights, benchmarks, analytics, in-depth data and well-informed insights to support decisions across the entire value chain for market participants, said Martina Cheung, Head of S&P Global Sustainable1 and President of S&P Global Market Intelligence. The launch of S&P Global Sustainable1
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Given the devastating economic toll the COVID-19 pandemic has had on women and girls, the imperative to mark International Women’s Day carries more weight than usual this year.
The idea of a day celebrating the accomplishments of the female gender in the U.S. reaches back to 1909. Throughout the subsequent decade, the concept was embraced by countries including Austria, Denmark, Germany, Russia and Switzerland, but it wasn’t until 1975 that the first International Women’s Day was celebrated and adopted by the United Nations.
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S&P Global and IHS Markit Announce Divisional Structure of Combined Company
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NEW YORK and LONDON, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) and IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) today announced the future divisional structure of the combined company, effective upon completing their pending merger. This announcement is an important milestone in bringing together our two world-class organizations to power the markets of the future, said
Douglas Peterson, President and Chief Executive Officer of S&P Global. As a combined company, we will provide customers the intelligence they need to make decisions with conviction while providing growth and development opportunities for our people.