"The team leveraged recent advances in several scientific disciplines, including earth observation and modeling, epidemiology, and public health, and linked these data to corporate operational and financial data to show how products and services can contribute to more sustainable environmental and human systems.

The research suggests a new way to assess the sustainability of corporations for investors, who are increasingly interested in this investment approach. A key is to provide systematic, transparent, and verifiable metrics of success based on well-accepted scientific approaches, in contrast to the self-disclosure of beneficial actions that are claimed typically by companies themselves."

[COMMENTARY] This is truly ground-breaking work and particularly important for ethical investors. I just wonder if their research will be proprietary or available freely to all investors? This project has the potential to significantly enhance corporate ESG and financial analysis!
CUNY, Harvard scientists team with UBS Asset Management on sustainable investing framework, press release, February 1, 2018, Advanced Science Research Center, GC/CUNY, USA.