Evidence and context
- The company, operation or activity involved
- Incident chronology and subsequent developments
- The company’s response and remediation evidence
Specialist ESG services
ESG Controversy
Management
Evidence-led review and documented challenges to inaccurate, outdated or incomplete controversy assessments.
Book a CallMake the assessment reflect the facts.
An outdated account, unclear attribution or incomplete remediation record can continue to shape a controversy assessment. Fruuit examines the evidence behind the record and the way the agency has applied its methodology.
Where a correction is warranted, we prepare a documented challenge, engage the responsible analyst and follow up on the response. The work helps companies address unjustified ratings and reputational risk.
Establish the factual record.
The review starts with what happened, when it happened, which company or operation was involved and what followed. We examine attribution and dates alongside the company’s response, subsequent developments and evidence of remediation.
The assessment
- Information that is inaccurate, outdated or incomplete
- The agency’s relevant methodology
- The specific basis for a correction or clarification
We explain why the evidence matters to the assessment so your team can decide whether a challenge is supported by the record.
Prepare and manage the challenge.
Documented submission
Bring the relevant evidence and context together, identify the requested correction and explain the basis for it against the agency’s methodology.
Analyst engagement
Engage the responsible analyst, address questions and provide the supporting explanation needed to reconsider the record.
Response and follow-up
Examine the agency’s response, follow up on unresolved points and identify additional information or action needed.
Your team receives a clear account of the findings, the basis for the challenge and the agency’s response. The agency determines whether its assessment changes.
Mining-sector expertise.
Controversy reviews call for an understanding of operating realities as well as ratings methodology. Michelle McCulloch, former Sustainalytics mining industry manager, brings 26+ years of ESG ratings and methodology experience.
Our mining work can examine the record around water, tailings, land use, biodiversity, worker safety, community relations and Indigenous rights. We connect controversy findings with relevant ratings indicators, disclosure gaps and policy or practice recommendations for the next assessment cycle.
Part of your wider ratings strategy.
Controversy findings can inform indicator analysis, peer comparison and disclosure, policy and practice recommendations. Commission a focused review or include the work in an agreed ESG Ratings Optimization or Autopilot engagement.
A specific correction, removal or ratings outcome cannot be guaranteed. The purpose is a factual, current assessment supported by the evidence.