ESG reporting & data · Morningstar, Inc.
Morningstar Sustainalytics
ESG risk rating provider measuring companies' unmanaged ESG risk exposure, widely used by investors and lenders.
Sustainalytics, owned by Morningstar, produces the ESG Risk Rating, which quantifies a company's unmanaged ESG risk on a numeric scale where lower is better, alongside controversy research that flags specific incidents and ongoing issues. It also rates carbon and fossil-fuel involvement and provides fund and index-level ESG scoring. Like MSCI ESG Research, its ratings are analyst-driven from public and licensed sources rather than built solely from a company's own questionnaire responses, which distinguishes it from CDP and EcoVadis. Sustainalytics ratings are widely referenced in sustainability-linked loan and bond frameworks, where the interest rate is tied to a borrower's ESG risk trajectory, as well as in investor portfolio screening.
At a glance
| Vendor | Morningstar, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Pricing model | Quote only |
| Free tier | No |
| Deployment | Cloud |
| Open source | No |
| Best for | Lenders and investors needing a standardized, analyst-driven ESG risk score for credit and portfolio decisions. |
Pricing
Institutional data licensing priced by quote; not published for individual companies.
Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.
Features
- ESG Risk Rating on a numeric unmanaged-risk scale
- Controversy research and ongoing incident monitoring
- Carbon risk and fossil-fuel involvement ratings
- Fund and index-level ESG scoring
- Sustainability-linked loan and bond framework assessments
- Sector-specific risk benchmarking
Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026