Corporate Knights Radar: Sustainable solutions and red flag database

The Corporate Knights Sustainable Solutions Database consists of approximately 670 companies from developed and emerging economies that earn at least 20% of the revenue from products or services that map to the Sustainable Development Goals consistent with the Corporate Knights Clean Revenue taxonomy or are members of the Business Ambition for 1.5°C coalition.

The Corporate Knights Dark Red Flag Database consists of more than 2,500 companies from developed and emerging economies that have been identified as so-called ‘red flag companies’ due to their involvement in ethically or environmentally questionable industries and/or practices. These companies have been identified through a rigorous process including theme selection, source reliability analysis, and company identification processes. The list is updated monthly to reflect changes in source material. Sources include methodologically-sound reports by non-profits, bottom-up research by Corporate Knights, and the public and derived exclusions of two significant funds (Norges Bank Investment Management and NZ Super Fund).

The dark red flag themes are as following: Access to medicine laggards; Access to nutrition laggards; Adult entertainment; Blocking climate policy; Cement carbon laggards; Civilian firearms; Controversial weapons; Conventional weapons; Deforestation & Palm oil laggards; Energy (Fossil Fuels); Farm animal welfare laggards; For-profit prisons; Gambling; Gross corruption violations; Harmful pesticides; Illegal activity; Oil sands laggards; Severe environmental damage; Severe human rights violations; Thermal coal; and Tobacco.

In addition to the dark red flags, Corporate Knights also maintains a database of “light red flag” companies for the following themes: Alcohol; Blocking climate resolutions; Financing misleading media; Industrial meat; Nuclear energy; and RepRisk.

 

Dark Red Flag Exclusion theme	Source
Access to medicine laggards	Access to Medicine Index
Access to nutrition laggards	Access to Nutrition Index
Adult entertainment	Motley Fool, Wespath, Sin Stocks Report
Blocking climate policy	InfluenceMap
Cement carbon laggards	NBIM
Civilian firearms	NZ Super Fund
Controversial weapons	NBIM, NZ Super Fund
Conventional weapons	Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Deforestation & Palm oil laggards	Chain Reaction Research, NBIM, Deforestation Free Funds
Energy	S&P Capital IQ
Farm animal welfare laggards	Corporate Knights database
For-profit prisons	The American Friends Service Committee
Gambling	S&P Capital IQ
Gross corruption violations	NBIM
Harmful pesticides	Unearthed
Illegal activity	Corporate Knights database
Oil sands laggards	NBIM
Severe environmental damage	NBIM
Severe human rights violations	NBIM
Thermal coal	NBIM, Urgewald
Tobacco	NBIM

 

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