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How to Enter
To enter this award, you must provide a thesis of no more than 500 words addressing the award theme:
The Journey to Destination Zero: The Opportunities and Challenges for Private Markets
Award Deadline
Awards entries are to be submitted by March 31st, 2022. Any award entry received outside of that time will not be accepted.
Who Can Enter?
An award entry can only be submitted by one person, with a maximum of four people per group partaking in the creation of the thesis and research article. The entrant(s) must be engaged in full time post graduate education or post graduate teaching and/or research as a member of faculty at a university on January 7th, 2022. Any entrant(s) who entered in 2021 are welcome to enter again for this year's award.
Each award entrant can submit only one award entry. If an award entrant submits more than one award entry, then every award entry in which that award entrant has participated will be disqualified.
Why Enter?
The winner(s) of this award will have their research hypothesis expanded into a research article that will be published in The Journal of Impact & ESG Investing (JESG) . In order to broaden their hypothesis, the winner(s) will have access to S&P Global's ESG, climate and financial datasets, which include:
- Trucost Environmental - The Trucost Environmental data measures environmental impact across key dimensions for over 15,000 companies.
- Trucost Physical Risk - Trucost's Physical Risk dataset assesses company exposure to physical risk at the asset-level based on a database of over 2 Million + assets mapped to 15,000+ listed companies in the S&P Market Intelligence database.
- Trucost Paris Alignment - The Trucost Paris Alignment data assesses company-level alignment with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees C from pre-industrial levels.
- Trucost Carbon Earnings at Risk - Stress test a company’s current ability to absorb future carbon prices and understand potential earnings at risk from carbon pricing on a portfolio level.
- Trucost EU Taxonomy Revenue Share – This dataset provides a granular assessment of the proportion of company revenues that are eligible for alignment with the sustainable business activities outlined in the EU Taxonomy.
- Trucost Sovereign Carbon Exposure - The Trucost sovereign dataset allows investors to understand the carbon exposure linked to their investments in sovereign bonds, compare performance against a benchmark and report in line with voluntary and mandatory reporting requirements.
- Compustat - Compustat Fundamentals provides standardized North American and global financial statement and market data for over 80,000 active and inactive publicly traded companies.
- Business Entity Cross Reference Service (BECRS) - This service provides you immediate cross-reference capabilities for millions of public and private entities using standardized and proprietary identifiers.
Upon completion of the research article, it will go through a thorough peer review process from members of the JESG Editorial board who are highly respected thought leaders within the ESG sector, and a specialist from S&P Global Sustainable1. Once done, the article will then be published and promoted globally across both brand channels.
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