Our Capabilities
Sustainability & Climate Indices
For over two decades, our indices have brought transparency to sustainability. Incorporating world-renowned datasets and accounting for global standards, these indices span assets classes to deliver a 360-degree view of environmental, social, and governance risk, opportunity, and impact. Our comprehensive, flexible suite of solutions includes broad-market sustainability indices rooted in the iconic S&P 500®, and regional headline benchmarks, net zero and low-carbon climate approaches, and thematic strategies targeting hydrogen and clean energy, among other themes.
Sustainability Indices
Our sustainability indices include broad-market indices such as the S&P 500 Scored & Screened Index, targeting the top 75% of the float market capitalization of each GICS® industry group by S&P DJI ESG Score, best-in-class indices such as the Dow Jones Best-in-Class Indices, which target the top 10% of sustainability performers, and more.
Climate Indices
Designed to address climate change and the transition to a low-carbon economy, climate indices address different carbon reduction objectives—including carbon-efficient and fossil-fuel-free-strategies. The indices use both current and forward-looking approaches, as well as those that align with the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
Thematic Sustainability Indices
Our thematic sustainability indices focus on a range of themes, from clean energy and natural resources to infrastructure and green real estate. Innovations in the way we construct indices, including advanced machine learning techniques, allow us to identify and track the megatrends reshaping our future.
Fixed Income Sustainability Indices
As the global green bond market continues to grow, our indices are helping investors assess greenium and the potential opportunity set. Leveraging proprietary and third-party sustainability datasets, our indices provide the marketplace with the insights needed to implement sustainable fixed income strategies.
Green Bonds
Green bond indices are designed to track bonds whose proceeds are used to finance qualifying investments that generate measurable societal and/or environmental benefits.
Other Fixed Income Sustainability Indices
These indices focus on renewable and clean energy, municipal water and sewer, and religious fixed income strategies.
Custom Solutions
You have the idea. We’ll create the index. Drawing on a wealth of experience and industry knowledge, we provide custom index solutions for banks, ETF providers, asset managers, and other institutions globally.
S&P Custom
S&P Custom indices are tailored versions of existing S&P DJI indices that follow straightforward, rule-based approaches. For example, they may exclude a specific sector or stocks of certain size range, or may be calculated using a different weighting scheme. These indices are sponsored and governed by S&P DJI
Client Proprietary
Our Client Proprietary indices are created using clients’ intellectual property, and carry the client’s brand. They may be derived from a custom universe of securities, or from an S&P DJI branded index.
Benchmark Administration
Indices for which we are benchmark administrator. These indices are subject to our Index governance and methodology oversight through a dedicated custom index committee.
Why Custom Indices?
Expertise & Experience
We calculate over 10,000 custom headline indices for more than 150 clients around the world. All of these indices are managed with the same rigorous processes and robust infrastructure used to calculate our flagship indices.
Brand Association
The S&P Dow Jones Indices name is widely associated with quality, integrity, and transparency. This brand equity can be leveraged through the “Calculated by S&P Dow Jones Indices” mark, which is made available to all custom index clients.
Extensive Coverage
Our index and constituent database spans all major asset classes and covers more than 33,000 securities in 96 countries.
Client Services
A dedicated custom team supports our clients globally. We provide “follow the sun” coverage with representatives in Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Amsterdam, London, New York, and Mexico City.
Top 10 sustainability trends to watch in 2026
S&P Global surveyed sustainability, climate and energy transition leaders and analysts from across our business about the areas that they expect to have the greatest influence on sustainability strategy and decision-making in 2026. The research that follows lays out the 10 key trends we are watching for the year ahead.