Supply Chain & ESG Incident Risk

ESG incident screening for supply-chain, procurement, due-diligence, and (re)insurance risk teams

The Challenge

Supply-chain, procurement, and due-diligence teams have to screen suppliers, counterparties, and portfolio companies for ESG incidents, labor abuses, environmental damage, safety failures, and governance scandals, before those incidents become a regulatory problem, a recall, a claim, or a headline. The exposure that hurts most rarely sits with the large, well-covered names. It sits deep in the supplier base, in emerging markets and the long tail.

That is exactly where the established ESG data providers are weakest. They cover the major listed universe well, but coverage thins out fast across the global south, smaller counterparties, and local-language reporting. An incident covered only in Bahasa, Portuguese, or Vietnamese is invisible to a screen that reads English- language wires, and coverage from restricted media environments cannot be read at face value.

SolAbility was built for that gap: comprehensive native-language coverage of the markets and the long tail others miss, source weighting that reflects credibility and press freedom, and incident-level detection with the actual evidence sentence attached, so a flag can be verified rather than trusted blind.

How SolAbility Solves It

ESG Incident Radar with Verbatim Evidence

The Global Sentiment Monitor provides incident-level detection and severity for labor, environmental, safety, and governance events, with the exact evidence sentence attached to every flag, so each incident is auditable rather than a black-box score. Typed quantitative extraction pulls out fine amounts, casualty counts, and emissions figures. The full approach is set out in the public methodology.

Emerging-Market & Long-Tail Coverage (Live)

This is the core differentiator, and it is live today. Coverage spans 11,000+ credible sources scored natively in 110 languages, so suppliers, counterparties, and portfolio companies in emerging markets and the global south are reached where conventional ESG data feeds run thin. Press-freedom weighting corrects for state-media distortion, and source articles are attached so every signal can be verified.

Sector & Region Supply-Chain Signals

Beyond single names, the data surfaces logistics chokepoint status, supplier distress and contagion, and source concentration risk. These signals are currently at the sector and region level, not per-company supplier-network graphs, so they tell you where a sector or a region is under strain rather than mapping an individual supplier tree, which is a later build.

Company & Counterparty Monitoring

Media sentiment across 20,000+ companies lets you watch suppliers, counterparties, competitors, or portfolio holdings for deterioration, with per-company incident logs and catalyst timelines from the Incident Radar. See the Global Sentiment Monitor overview for coverage and access, and the live movers page for what is shifting right now.

11,000+
credible sources
110
languages scored natively
193
countries
20,000+
companies
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

About ESG incident and supply-chain risk monitoring

You monitor media coverage of those suppliers and counterparties in the languages where the incidents are actually reported. SolAbility scores news from 11,000+ credible sources across 193 countries, natively in 110 languages, weighted by source credibility and press freedom, so labor, environmental, safety, and governance incidents surface even in markets the large incumbents cover thinly. The ESG Incident Radar adds incident-level detection and severity, with a verbatim evidence quote on every flag.
ESG incident monitoring watches the news for emerging negative events tied to a company, supplier, or counterparty: environmental spills, labor disputes, safety failures, corruption and governance scandals. Rather than a static annual rating, it is a continuous signal that flags when something is going wrong and gives you the underlying reporting to verify it. SolAbility scores media sentiment across 20,000+ companies, and the ESG Incident Radar adds incident-level detection and severity.
The incident detection is comparable, but the coverage is far deeper in emerging markets, the global south, and the long tail where most providers thin out, because scoring is done natively in 110 languages rather than through English-language sources or translation, and every source is weighted by press freedom to correct state-media distortion. Every incident carries a verbatim evidence quote, the actual sentence from the source article, so a flag is auditable rather than a black-box score. And it is offered at a boutique price point.
Yes. Every incident carries the verbatim source sentence that triggered it, with the source named and the quote kept in its original language, so your analysts can read the evidence and judge it directly instead of trusting an opaque number. Typed quantitative extraction pulls the numbers out too, such as fine amounts, casualty counts, and emissions figures.

Monitor Your Supply Chain

Screen suppliers, counterparties, and portfolio companies for ESG incidents across the emerging markets and the long tail the incumbents miss, with a verbatim evidence quote on every flag. Talk to us about coverage and access, or open the Global Sentiment Monitor to see it working.

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