{"id":2640,"date":"2023-02-04T01:56:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T20:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2025-03-25T23:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:35:31","slug":"sp-dow-jones-indices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sp-dow-jones-indices\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P Dow Jones Indices"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The index comprises global sustainability leaders as identified by S&amp;P Global through its Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It represents the top 10% of the largest 2,500 companies in the S&amp;P Global Broad Market Index (BMI) based on long-term economic, environmental and social criteria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is the Corporate Sustainability Assessment?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was founded in 1999 and serves as the foundation for the S&amp;P Dow Jones Sustainability Index.<\/li>\n<li>It is now also the basis for many other <strong>Environment, Social responsibility, and (Corporate) Governance<\/strong> indices.<\/li>\n<li>According to S&amp;P Global, S&amp;P acquired the CSA in 2019, which included the transition of the related ESG ratings and ESG benchmarking teams that now operate out of S&amp;P Global Switzerland.<\/li>\n<li>It compares companies across 61 industries via questionnaires assessing a mix of 80-100 cross-industry and industry-specific questions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Based on their performance, companies receive <strong>scores ranging from 0 to 100.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The percentile rankings for approximately 20 financially relevant sustainability criteria across <strong>economic, environmental and social dimensions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is corporate sustainability?<\/h3>\n<p>Corporate sustainability is about more than just protecting the environment, although that is core to this approach. A sustainable business works in step with societal and environmental goals, rather than at odds with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-economics\/adani-enterprises-dow-jones-indices-share-price-stock-market-8421574\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>S&amp;P Dow Jones Indices will remove Adani Enterprises from its sustainability indices. What does this mean?<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The index comprises global sustainability leaders as identified by S&#038;P Global through its Corporate Sustainability Assessment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}