IRRCi Analysis of Metrics

Leading a small team of experts in the respective subject matter domains, Soyka & Company directed an innovative project sponsored by the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute (IRRCi). It explored the commonalities and differences in what environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are important to corporate managers and to investor-oriented ESG researchers. The project report, Finding Common Ground on the Metrics that Matter, showed general agreement about what the important corporate sustainability issues are, but not on why or how company ESG data should be used; that both corporate executives and ESG researchers/ investors approach ESG issues from a risk mitigation perspective, not a value creation perspective; and 3) more and better communication between companies, researchers, and the consumers of ratings will be needed in the future.