The carbon price moves every number here except the allocation. The missing data moves the money.
There is no one sustainability ranking of the S&P 500. Ours included.
Commercial ESG ratings run on numbers a company chooses to publish about itself. 74% of the S&P 500 later revised those numbers (Cohen, Rouen and Sachdeva, Nature Climate Change, 2026). So we scored the index only on what it files under legal penalty, ran every defensible modelling choice at once, and kept what held.
Say and do
Every company is an interval, not a rank
We rebuilt the ranking ten thousand times, changing every modelling choice a defensible method could make. The order fell apart. The weights, which is the thing everyone argues about, came fifth.
A Paris-Aligned fund sells the decarbonisers
We built the EU’s Paris-aligned fund from the regulation itself, article by article, plus a control book with no carbon rule in it at all. Then we split the carbon cut to find out who did the cutting.
What we cannot see, stated as a number
Where the mandatory record stops, the score stops with it.