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Every sustainability decision rests on ESG data: which suppliers to onboard, which counterparties to keep, which risks to escalate. But most ESG data has a structural weakness. It describes what companies choose to show, or what ratings agencies can measure for large listed firms. The environmental violation at an unlisted supplier, the labour controversy reported only in a regional newspaper, the pollution case working through a local court: none of it appears in a sustainability report or a rating.
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