{"id":73,"date":"2007-04-03T19:12:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T18:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/covdev2\/index.php\/about-us\/the-compagny\/methodology\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T09:49:46","slug":"approach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text font_size=&#8221;18&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1704991701546{margin-bottom: 18px !important;}&#8221;]The Covalence approach is based on a diversity of sources of information and relies on web monitoring and artificial intelligence together with human analysis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To produce ESG ratings, we combine a measure of <strong>reputation<\/strong>, translating the perception of stakeholders such as the media and NGOs, both positive (endorsements) and negative (controversies), and a <strong>disclosure <\/strong>score<strong>, <\/strong>based on ESG indicators reported by companies and sourced from an external provider as well as on corporate communications.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=&#8221;14656&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1705052982533{margin-top: 24px !important;margin-bottom: 24px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text font_size=&#8221;18&#8243;]Covalence first uses a set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/approach\/criteria\/\">50 criteria<\/a> inspired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalreporting.org\/\">Global Reporting Initiative<\/a>\u2019s sustainability reporting guidelines. These criteria serve to classify the narrative content which is gathered thanks to our semi-automated search process using a broad set of sources.<\/p>\n<p>The data is then recoded with hundreds of topics and sub-topics and organized into 11 dimensions within 3 categories: Environment, Social, Governance, enabling to calculate ESG scores and ratings, as well as a greenwashing risk indicator.<\/p>\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/docs\/Covalence_ESG_Ratings_Methodolology.pdf\">Covalence ESG Ratings Methodolology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/docs\/Covalence_ESG_News_CollectionandClassification_Methodology.pdf\">Covalence ESG News Collection and Classification Methodology<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/docs\/Covalence_GreenwashingRiskIndicator_WhitePaper.pdf\">Covalence Greenwashing Risk Indicator \u2013 White Paper<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text font_size=&#8221;18&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1704991701546{margin-bottom: 18px !important;}&#8221;]The Covalence approach is based on a diversity of sources of information and relies on web monitoring and artificial intelligence together with human analysis. To produce ESG ratings, we combine a measure of reputation, translating the perception of stakeholders such as the media and NGOs, both positive (endorsements) and negative (controversies),&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15051,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/15051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}