Facing the global sustainability wave and information disclosure trends, businesses and investors have increasingly urgent needs for ESG information. To help stakeholders more effectively grasp the sustainability pulse of Taiwanese companies and markets, the Taiwan Stock Exchange has launched the "ESG InfoHub" digital platform, integrating key sustainability data from official institutions to provide one-stop information inquiry and comparison functions.
Whether you're a corporate ESG officer, analyst, or researcher focused on sustainability issues, you can use the following guide to learn how to leverage ESG InfoHub as a powerful tool for decision-making, communication, and strategic planning!
Platform Core Functions: Five Dimensions Integrated in One Place
ESG InfoHub covers five functional dimensions, designed for different user needs, providing efficient and transparent information inquiry and analysis tools:
- Market Highlights – Sustainability Market Overview
Aggregates Taiwan's overall ESG development status, disclosing trends in corporate ESG disclosure and greenhouse gas emission information, helping users grasp industry dynamics as a reference for sustainability strategies.
2. ESG Dashboard – Comprehensive Corporate Performance View
Provides sustainability-related performance data for listed companies, supporting cross-industry and cross-company comparisons. The platform also discloses historical corporate governance evaluation results and major negative event records, facilitating sustainability risk and performance assessments as a reference for corporate improvement strategies.
ESG Dashboard - Cross-Company Comparison Illustration
3. ESG Product Information – Investment and Transformation Assessment
Centrally presents ESG-related indices, products, and targets, including sustainability indices and ESG ETFs, helping investors and businesses effectively grasp sustainability investment market information, also serving as a corporate sustainability transformation assessment tool.
4. ESG Related Resources – Standards and Regulations Library
Provides various domestic regulations, international standards, and disclosure guidelines related to ESG, such as TCFD, GRI, ISSB, etc., supporting enterprises in aligning with systems and implementing standards during sustainability information disclosure.
5. Greenhouse Gas Section – Climate Net-Zero Support
Focuses on greenhouse gas management, integrating tools, databases, regulatory guidance, and promotional resources needed for inventory and verification, helping enterprises strengthen carbon emission management capabilities to meet net-zero transformation needs.
Data Sources, Scope, and Reliability
The data provided by the ESG InfoHub platform is primarily aggregated from credible official domestic entities including the Taiwan Stock Exchange, Taipei Exchange, Taiwan Index Plus Corporation, and Futures Exchange, based on statutory filings disclosed through the "Market Observation Post System." The platform covers diverse information including corporate governance evaluation results, sustainability index components, material information disclosure, carbon disclosure data, and verification report summaries, all reviewed by government or regulated institutions before public release, ensuring high accuracy, timeliness, and consistency.
Additionally, ESG InfoHub uses standardized formats for data presentation and aggregation, not only improving the feasibility of cross-company and cross-industry comparisons but also lowering the barriers for stakeholders to interpret information. Overall, ESG InfoHub provides reliable sources and complete data, serving as an important basis for enterprises to evaluate sustainability performance and for investors to assess risks.
How to Use ESG Information to Enhance Sustainable Development and Complete Sustainability Transformation
By effectively utilizing ESG information, enterprises can systematically review their performance across the three dimensions of environment, society, and governance, grasp industry trends and market disclosure benchmarks, and discover potential risks and opportunities.
For example:
- Analyze major negative events and corporate governance evaluation results in the ESG Dashboard as a basis for internal risk control and policy adjustments.
- Reference the inventory tools and regulatory guidance provided in the Greenhouse Gas Section to help enterprises establish compliant and efficient carbon reduction management mechanisms.
Overall, ESG information not only enhances sustainability performance transparency but also becomes important information for enterprises to strengthen governance, respond to climate challenges, and deepen stakeholder communication, contributing to corporate sustainability transformation and building long-term resilience and brand trust.
Future Development Trends and Challenges of ESG Information Platforms
As sustainability issues become increasingly diverse, enterprises face stricter information disclosure requirements. International sustainability standards such as IFRS S1/S2 and TNFD are being implemented, driving higher expectations from enterprises and stakeholders for the breadth, depth, and timeliness of sustainability information. However, with multiple standards running in parallel, enterprises must respond to multiple disclosure requirements simultaneously, often facing challenges such as scattered data sources, inconsistent formats, and system integration difficulties. How to improve information consistency and comparability has become a key issue in the sustainability transformation process.
On the other hand, cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and digital twins are being rapidly applied to ESG management, including carbon inventory automation, supply chain risk prediction, and sustainability performance analysis, driving enterprises toward more efficient and accurate digital management. In the future, an integrated, intelligent, and highly reliable ESG digital platform will become a key tool for enterprises to respond to policy requirements, optimize internal management, and improve communication efficiency.
Enterprises facing diverse information collection also face internal information integration challenges. Against this backdrop, Sustaihub has developed the Syber Sustainability Management System to help enterprises complete diverse information integration and multi-standard disclosure. Syber provides a one-stop solution from framework construction, data collection and review, data integration and analysis, to report generation, not only helping enterprises effectively integrate cross-departmental information but also flexibly adapting to various standards such as TCFD, ISSB, and GRI, accelerating digital sustainability transformation.
Looking ahead, how to further deepen system support for greenhouse gas management and social responsibility issues, and incorporate carbon fee systems, carbon trading mechanisms, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), will be future challenges for ESG digital platform development. The Syber system will continue to optimize its functions and architecture, helping enterprises steadily advance amid dynamic regulations and maintain control over sustainability governance.
