商道纵横连续第二年发布了针对中国企业环境、社会和治理问题的研究报告——《中国上市公司ESG研究2012》。报告发现，2012年，中国制造行业的环境、社会和企业治理（ESG）风险最大，其中富士康公司是面临ESG风险最大的制造业企业。
目前中国面临的最大的ESG风险属于社会问题范畴。职业健康与安全事故占全部ESG负面信息的40%。商道纵横认为，中国排名前五位的ESG问题是：职业健康和安全、产品安全、劳动条件、商业道德和腐败欺诈。
“基于商道纵横新闻追踪系统 的发现，这份报告及时地总结和分析了针对中国市场的特定ESG问题，凸显了将ESG因素纳入投资风险管理的重要性。”商道纵横总经理郭沛源博士说。
商道纵横新闻追踪系统监控到的有关中国企业ESG问题的负面报道显示，56%的ESG负面报道来自制造业。商道纵横认为，从产生ESG风险的行业分布来看，排名前五位的是：制造业、煤矿、交通、金融和石油开采。产生ESG负面报道最多的10家公司中有6家是财富500强企业。
商道纵横的新闻追踪系统监控着有关中国大陆、香港和台湾共2000多家企业的ESG负面报道。从2011年8月到2012年7月，商道纵横新闻监控系统搜集到的企业ESG负面信息达300多家企业，417条。
The most exposed company to ESG risks in China for 2012 was Foxconn. For the second year in a row, Chinese manufacturing companies represent the country's highest reported environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks for investors, according to the new study Revealing China's ESG Issues 2012 tracking local news sources by SynTao, the Chinese sustainability research company.
Social concerns were by far the largest type of ESG risk reported in China with occupational health and safety incidents accounting for almost 40% of the total alerts. SynTao says the top five ESG issues were occupational health and safety, product safety, labour conditions, business ethics, and corruption and fraud.
“Drawing from the findings of the SynTao Local News Monitoring System (LNMS), the report provides an up-to-date overview and analysis of the ESG issues specific to the realities of the Chinese market, and underlines the importance of applying an ESG strategy to investment risk management.” said Dr Guo Peiyuan, co-founder and general manager of SynTao.
Continuing media scrutiny of the manufacturing sector meant that the industry accounted for 56% of all news alerts picked up by SynTao. The research firm says the top five industries most exposed to ESG issues were manufacturing, mining, transportation, financial services and petroleum extraction. Among the 10 companies generating the most ESG risk alerts, 6 were part of the Fortune Global 500 (by revenue).
SynTao tracked over 2000 companies and their ESG coverage in local press in China mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan for a period of one year (August 2011 – July 2012). In total, the company identified 417 separate incidents for 300 different companies.