Climate Innovation Indexes

The Maplecroft CII questionnaire is based on international environmental and carbon accounting standards including ISO 14001, ISO 14064, the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and others. Questions have been further validated by Maplecroft following more than five years of in-field auditing, piloting and refinement with leading-edge global brands. Questions are systematically scored, peer reviewed and quantified by experienced analysts, with companies encouraged to engage and feed back on their scores.

The rating of each company is completed by Maplecroft using numerous public domain company publications including websites, annual and sustainability reports including United Nations Global Compact Communications on Progress (CoPs) as well as investor presentations. Maplecroft also applies its proprietary Climate Change Vulnerability Index to map a company’s exposures throughout its value chain. This is supplemented by direct engagement with each company to validate the initial scoring and fill gaps.

Together this analysis ensures an objective, accurate and up-to-date account of a company’s climate-related innovation and carbon management performance. The emphasis on engagement provides significant insight into company processes and enables two-way dialogue to identify areas of strength and weaknesses; capturing performance and strategy not yet communicated to wider audiences.

Maplecroft is a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.