Access is available on and off campus to current McMaster University students, faculty and staff.
- WRDS account: Only current McMaster faculty, staff, graduate students (Ph.D. and Masters), undergraduates and research assistants can register for a personal WRDS account.
- WRDS Day Pass: If you don't need a personal WRDS account, current McMaster users can request a WRDS day pass using this form. A McMaster email address is required. Once the form is submitted, a WRDS access link will be emailed to you within minutes.
- LSEG ESG data is also available via LSEG Workspace.
- LSEG ESG and other datasets via WRDS have been fully funded by McMaster's DeGroote School of Business (DSB).
Coverage: 2002 to the present
To access LSEG ESG data, connect to WRDS > on the WRDS Subscriptions page (default home page) select LSEG > scroll through the resulting list and select V2 LSEG ESG Scores or connect to LSEG Workspace > look up a company in Workspace > view a company profile and select the ESG tab.
Provides ESG (environmental, social and governance) data and scores for over 15,000 global companies, across 76 countries, spanning major global and regional indices.
The scores are designed to measure a company's relative ESG performance, commitment and effectiveness across 10 main themes, based on publicly available and auditable data. The themes in each category include ...
- E - emission, innovation, and resource use
- S - community, human rights, product responsibility, and workforce
- G - CSR (corporate social responsibility) strategy, management, and shareholders
Covers over 88% of the global market cap, across more than 700 different ESG metrics, with a history going back to 2002
Learn more about the LSEG ESG dataset (formerly Refinitiv) via WRDS and the meaning and methodology of LSEG ESG scores.
