Viewing ESG News Sentiment Scores

Diligent's patented technology filters through thousands of news sources to generate various ESG News Sentiment Scores for your company. The ESG News Sentiment Score is based on the valence of news articles related to the World Economic Forum's four major pillars: Planet, People, Governance, and Prosperity.

1. In the Diligent One hub, select ESG News Sentiment to open the report.

   

2. Your company's ESG News Sentiment Score is displayed in the Overall ESG News Sentiment Score visualization. To compare your company's score with the average score of other companies in the same industry, tap the graph.

   Note

   In calculating scores, a positive news article is worth +1 (plus one), a negative news article is worth -1 (minus one), and a neutral news article neither adds nor subtracts from the total score. Your total score ranges from -10 to +10, based on the predominance of negative or positive news stories from the last year.

   Note

   Diligent uses NAICs, SIC, and other publicly available frameworks to confirm companies within the same industry.

3. In the ESG News Sentiment Score Quarterly visualization, you can view trends in your company's overall ESG News Sentiment Score over the last four quarters.

4. To compare your company's quarterly ESG News Sentiment Score to the industry average score, tap each point in the line graph that represents a quarter.

5. The Top 5 Topics Mentioned visualization displays the top five topics about your company that appeared in news articles from the last year. To display the top five topics about your industry, select Industry.

6. To view other data management options, first tap the upper-right corner, select the menu icon that appears, and then select one of the following options:

   • To reset the data and return to the original display, select "Reset".

   • To refresh the data, select "Refresh".

   

7. In the ESG News Sentiment Pillar scores visualization, you can view your company's and the industry's average ESG News Sentiment Score for each of the World Economic Forum's four pillars: Planet, People, Governance, and Prosperity. The scores are derived from all the news articles that contain key topics for each pillar. The key topics for each pillar include:

   • Planet: climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, net zero, biodiversity, green energy

   • People: diversity and inclusion, LGBTQ equality, discrimination, gender pay gap, work-life balance

   • Governance: corporate governance, executive pay, stakeholder engagement, ethical behavior, activist investors

   • Prosperity: tax reporting, layoffs, economic contribution, governance assistance

8. To compare a pillar's ESG News Sentiment Score to the industry average, tap the pillar name in the bar chart.

9. In the ESG News Sentiment Pillar Scores Over Time visualization, to view trends in the pillars' ESG News Sentiment Scores over the last four quarters, tap each point in the line graph that represents a quarter.

10. In the Recent News Stories section, to read a prominent ESG news article from the last 90 days about your company and industry, select the title in the Headline column. The article opens on a new tab in your web browser.

    Note

    Diligent sources news from the world's top publications, including The Economic Times, Bloomberg, U.S. News & World Report, and others.

11. If a news article contains potential risk to your industry or company, a red flag is displayed in the ESG Risk column.

12. To increase the size of any visualization and make the display full screen, tap the upper-right corner, and then select the Maximize icon that appears.