Sage Evaluates Sectors for Sustainability Risks and Opportunities

February 19, 2025 — In this report, we provide Sage Leaf Scores for each of the 11 sectors in the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). We highlight each sector’s most relevant financially material factors, as well as the industries within each sector that we consider to be sustainability leaders or laggards. We also provide a distribution of Leaf Scores for each sector to illustrate that, while a sector may not appear investable because its average Leaf Score does not meet our strict criteria for portfolio inclusion, there are best-in-class companies within each sector. Lastly, Sage provides links to case studies on companies we consider to be sustainability leaders to demonstrate our analysis of financially material sustainability factors and how we weigh these when considering an issuer for inclusion in our Responsible Investing portfolios.