{"id":3248,"date":"2022-02-03T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tejwin.com\/en\/news\/tesg-rating-the-esg-indicator-for-companies-in-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:02:10","slug":"tesg-rating-the-esg-indicator-for-companies-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.tejwin.com\/en\/news\/tesg-rating-the-esg-indicator-for-companies-in-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"TESG Rating, the ESG Indicator for Companies in Taiwan!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The long-anticipated ESG ratings exclusively for companies in Taiwan, TESG, has officially debuted! TESG is an indicator of corporate ESG and is developed especially for \u201cresponsible lending\u201d and \u201cresponsible investment.\u201d With more than 20 years of research experience in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and quantitative analysis, TEJ will launch the ESG ratings of Taiwan-listed and OTC companies,\u00a0TESG Rating, by the end of the first quarter this year!<\/p>\n

TEJ has been dedicated to corporate governance and ESG-related research since 2002. In 2005, a corporate governance database was launched according to OECD and Taiwan\u2019s Code of Corporate Governance Best-Practice Principles. As time goes by, corporate social responsibility has gotten more and more popular around the globe. In response to the popularity, TEJ organized the information of eight aspects of corporate social responsibility with ISO26000 and KLD in 2015. The CSR database provided in 2020 focuses on the ESG framework and provides useful evaluation indicators. In the same year, with regard to the announcement of Green Finance 2.0, the competent authority implemented responsible investment and lending in the financial industry and established more rules to follow. TEJ started the research and development of ESG ratings exclusive to Taiwanese companies accordingly. After a year and a half of hard work, the TESG Rating\u00a0will finally be launched in the first quarter of this year!<\/p>\n

TESG covers all companies listed in Taiwan. The measurement variables include CSR reports, the annual report of the shareholders\u2019 meeting, and other public information which includes the Labor Standards Act, ISO, GMP product certificate, and negative news related to social responsibility to offset the problem that most companies do not disclose CSR reports.<\/p>\n

This article is the first to introduce the main focuses of research and development for TESG:<\/p>\n

R&D Focus 1: Quantitative Analysis as Foundation, International ESG Standards as\u00a0the Structure<\/h2>\n

There are many ways to develop ratings, including by expert judgment, semi-expert judgment, and quantitative methods, while TESG is\u00a0fully quantitative. The establishment of a quantitative rating must rely on a huge database. It needs to ensure the correctness of the data and to find representative ESG measurement variables. The variables selected for the TESG\u00a0Rating\u00a0follow the GRI guidelines and are matched with the information available in the Taiwan market to establish\u00a0three pillars and 16 issues. The 16 issues include the identification of quantifiable variables and the degree of information disclosure. The more detailed a company\u2019s ESG disclosure is, the more effort a company has put into ESG. If the company\u2019s disclosure has been confirmed, assured, or guaranteed by an accountant or a third party, a better level will be obtained.<\/p>\n

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R&D Focus 2: by Incorporating External Information, a Company can be Rated even if no CSR Report is Provided<\/h2>\n

When establishing a set of ESG indicators specific to listed companies in Taiwan, we considered the fact that most companies have not been required to prepare or actively prepare CSR reports (even if they disclose, the content is not standardized). Therefore, the scope of data collection is not limited to CSR reports and annual reports. Other external information such as ISO certification, GMP certification, joining international advocacy organizations, or the related disclosures of employee welfare can also be used to prove the implementation of enterprises in ESG. In this way, even if the company does not prepare a CSR report, ratings can be based on external information.<\/p>\n

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R&D Focus 3: SASB Industry Classification Introduces ESG Weights of Different Industries<\/h2>\n

In the future, Taiwan will adopt the SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards and disclose information in accordance with the SASB Materiality Map. Due to differences in industries, issues regarding the three-pillar (E, S, and G) will receive different levels of attention. For instance, Taiwan Cement Corporation (TCC) belongs to the \u201cExtractives and Mineral Processing\u201d industry under SASB, and its carbon emissions or resource use cannot be compared with Cathay United Bank which belongs to the classification of \u201cFinancials.\u201d Therefore, TESG will be divided into 11 categories according to the SASB standards for Taiwanese enterprises, and different weights will be given to E, S, and G for different industries.<\/p>\n

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TESG Rating\u00a0Level<\/strong><\/h2>\n

TESG ratings include seven levels, which are further categorized into three groups, leader, average, and laggard. Through the rating, one can directly understand the ESG level of a company. By taking a deep look into the scores of a company in the three pillars (E, S, and G) and the ranking in the industry, you can also understand which pillar the company has performed the best or the worst. Scores can be used to compare in the same industry and ratings can be applied to comparison across industries.<\/p>\n

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Powerful TEJ Database + Quantitative Analysis Technology = TESG\u00a0Rating<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After the launch of Green Finance 2.0, Taiwan Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD) surveyed 51 financial companies in Taiwan that signed the Stewardship Principles (financial holdings, banks, brokerages, investment trust, and insurance companies) and completed Taiwan\u2019s first sustainable finance survey. The survey found that regarding the limitations of applying ESG to decision-making processes, as high as 84.4% of the respondents believe that the lack of quantitative information on ESG is to blame. Insufficient ESG information related to financial materiality and the high cost of obtaining ESG information are also difficulties for ESG applications in the financial industry. TESG Rating\u00a0developed by TEJ helps tackle these current difficulties in promoting responsible investment and responsible lending, and it also features:<\/p>\n

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  1. High Coverage: including Taiwan-listed, OTC, and public offering companies<\/li>\n
  2. Theory-based: adopting quantitative analysis technology with reference\u00a0to\u00a0international standards (GRI standards and SASB industry classification) and the industry nature of Taiwan.<\/li>\n
  3. Complete Database \u2013 even if there is no CSR report disclosure, a company can be rated<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The long-anticipated ESG ratings exclusively for companies in Taiwan, TESG, has officially debuted! TESG is an indicator of corporate ESG and is developed especially for \u201cresponsible lending\u201d and \u201cresponsible investment.\u201d With more than 20 years of research experience in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and quantitative analysis, TEJ will launch the ESG ratings of Taiwan-listed and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3243,"template":"","tags":[54,77],"news_category":[9],"class_list":["post-3248","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-esg","tag-esg-data","news_category-product-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tejwin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tejwin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tejwin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tejwin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tejwin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tejwin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tejwin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}