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Services
ICValue’s product takes the form of company-by-company
summaries of environmental performance scores, averaged to
an overall rating (see Methodology),
then packaged as groups of about five companies in a regional
industrial sector. At a larger scale, our product may cover
a multi-sector multi-state region of interest for some clients.
The products available and instructions for ordering are shown
on attached link pages.
Investors and environmental scientists have been asking
how the most complete information on industrial externalities
in a region could be provided to U.S. capital markets. ICValue
is doing just that, using a new investment research concept
and proprietary methods.
Our Approach:
- Derives first from the best available environmental science
principles;
- Is focused on mid-cap to large-cap businesses in SIC
sectors that use or affect natural resources and the environment;
- Uses comprehensive scoring for eight enviro-technical
and seven enviro-management criteria that draw on 50 well-defined
metrics of performance;
- Advances full use of environmental effects information
as well as new standards of transparency for environmental
reporting.
ICValue’s analysis of environmental fundamentals
ensures good visibility for companies that follow best practices
for:
- Conserving agricultural and forest land and its productivity;
- Conserving groundwater and surface water from direct
effects of land treatments or accidents;
- Minimizing release of persistent pollutants (including
chlororganics and heavy metals);
- Reducing acid gas emissions during procurement, manufacturing,
and final stewardship of products;
- Conserving energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions;
- Protecting (or rehabilitating) shorelines, coastal zones,
and watersheds during site development; and
- Protecting plant and wildlife habitat during product design,
manufacturing, consumer use, and disposal.
Web-page links under Methodology
provide a listing of our 50 metrics, organized in 15 criteria
and 8 clusters of complementary criteria. |
