The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation launched a new ESG InfoHub website (https://esg.twse.com.tw/ESG/front/en/#/main/home), which integrates environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) information of listed companies, while providing dedicated pages on ESG products, domestic and foreign resources, plus greenhouse gas inventories to assist investors in addition to enterprises in easily understanding and using ESG related information; this serve as a reference for ESG investment and sustainability transformation.

The ESG InfoHub consolidates market highlights, ESG databases, products, related resources and greenhouse gas inventories. Among them, market highlights provides features of the recent ESG development of Taiwan’s capital market and listed companies, including sustainability reports, greenhouse gases, corporate governance, equality and diversity, due diligence governance, and green finance, which are the recent focuses of the market. Taking greenhouse gases as an example, 573 listed companies have disclosed their “greenhouse gas emission and reduction information” for the year 2022, demonstrating the attention of Taiwan listed companies to the climate change issue, and have actively planned greenhouse gas reduction management strategies. In terms of equality and diversity, the statistical data shows that the number of female directors in listed companies has been increasing year by year, and more than 72.3% of listed companies have female directors on their boards.

The ESG InfoHub also has the “ESG Dashboard for Listed Companies” function, allowing users to easily query and compare ESG information of listed companies, including environmental information such as greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption and waste materials. In the social aspect, users may query indicators such as the proportion of female supervisors, the number of occupational accidents and employee salaries. In the corporate governance aspect, users can search for details such as the number of  information such as the number of independent directors, the attendance rate of board members and the number of briefings to institutional investors. Users may also quickly make cross-company and cross-industry comparisons of various ESG indicators through the dashboard function, and understand the annual changes.

In order to facilitate investors to understand ESG related products, the ESG InfoHub also provides links to ESG related indices, ESG index products and sustainable development bonds to help investors find suitable investment instruments. The ESG InfoHub also consolidates domestic and international ESG related legal norms, guidelines and particulars to help enterprises understand ESG related norms and guidelines. At the same time, it provides information on sustainability related courses and seminars organized by the TWSE to promote the education and communication on corporate ESG issues.

In addition, in order to assist enterprises in addressing the challenge of climate change, jointly achieving the goal of Taiwan’s 2050 net zero emission policy, and conducting greenhouse gas inventory and assurance in accordance with the schedule of the “Roadmap for Sustainable Development of Listed Companies” by the Financial Supervisory Commission, a dedicated greenhouse gas inventory page is established for the ESG InfoHub to allow enterprises to have a one-stop understanding of information such as disclosure schedule planning, Q&A, inventory guidelines and inventory courses.

The TWSE states that the launch of ESG InfoHub is an important milestone in its commitment to promoting the ESG ecosystem, in order to achieve goals such as ESG data sharing and application, promote ESG investment, and guide sustainability capital to invest. In the future, the TWSE shall advance the ESG ecosystem to make ESG the foundation of Taiwan enterprises in international competitions and enhance the overall competitiveness of Taiwan’s capital market.