Following the announcement of China’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2060, domestic securities market regulators have started to impose tighter environmental and corporate governance disclosure rules on A-share firms. Here comes the next question. Who can and will capture the data needed to monitor the transition of this large GHG-emitting country? To better see where China’s ESG data services are heading, we review the current status quo.

Did you know that there is a tendency for management call sentiment to deteriorate throughout the day? Beyond diurnal variability, this report introduces the various approaches to quantitative interrogation of earnings calls. It also outlines the free and commercial datasets that support such analyses.