On-Demand Webinar: Improving Sustainable Investing through Better ESG Metrics

Energy of the Future Webinar Series

Businesses and investors are increasingly including environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance attributes alongside traditional financial metrics. Although ESG metrics are becoming increasingly popular, there are many data gaps, and limited consistency within what is available today.

The Boston University Impact Measurement and Allocation Program (IMAP) was established in 2020 to improve and standardize the measurement and use of ESG attributes of businesses. We are working closely with both leading financial industry professionals and a wide network of academic experts.

IMAP’s early work has identified a strong desire from the investment industry for new sources of high-quality ESG metrics, which are not readily available from today’s data vendors. This webinar will highlight new metrics of corporate performance under development by leading academic researchers. Each will present different data sources that can be used to improve the risk assessment of a firm’s performance. While most of today’s ESG metrics are currently derived from a company’s self-reported measures, this webinar will explore potential third-party sources such as GIS data, temperature trends, worker accident reports, and employee ratings of their employers.

Hosted by the Institute for Sustainable Energy (now the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability).

Recording (June 17, 2021)

Event Resources

Presentation slides

Panelists

Sucharita Gopal, ISE and IMAP affiliated faculty, Professor, Department of Earth & Environment, College of Arts & Sciences, Boston University
Nina Mažar, IMAP affiliated faculty, Professor of Marketing, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Nora M.C. Pankratz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California Los Angeles Luskin Center for Innovation
Susan Fredholm Murphy, Executive Director, Research, IMAP

Co-hosted by the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy (now the Institute for Global Sustainability), Susilo Institute for Ethics in the Global Economy at the Questrom School of Business, and Impact Measurement & Allocation Program (IMAP).

Event sponsored by the Boston University Questrom School of Business.