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Index › Finance › Products › ISS ESG · November 2026 Edition

ESG and carbon reporting · Named, not ranked

ISS ESG

–Too few to rank

3/14Models named it

0First choices

2Warnings

November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.

Ranked inESG and carbon reporting #117 mid-market

What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. ISS ESG has 3.

Why models recommend it

“Well-Established Providers: MSCI ESG Research, Sustainalytics, ISS ESG, S&P Global Sustainable1.”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · alternative

What gives them pause

“ISS was sued by four state attorneys general ... over allegedly misleading investors about its objectivity”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning

“ISS ESG – poor communication with rated companies; data gathering criticized”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as ISS ESG, over the 3 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

Product	Named together
Sustainalytics	3	View →
CDP	2	View →
S&P Global	2	View →
Bloomberg ESG	1	View →
GRI Standards	1	View →
JUST Capital	1	View →
MSCI	1	View →
MSCI ESG	1	View →
MSCI ESG Ratings	1	View →
Moody's ESG	1	View →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named ISS ESG came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 2 of the 3 answers that named ISS ESG and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.worldfavor.com2

eur-lex.europa.eu2

financialservices.house.gov2

onlinelibrary.wiley.com2

stblaw.com2

abnamro.com1

ago.nebraska.gov1

api.mziq.com1

arxiv.org1

bdo.com1

No domain is on file for ISS ESG, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

blog.worldfavor.com/how-companies-relying-on-esg-ratings-escalate-the-risk-of-unintentiona2

financialservices.house.gov/uploadedfiles/hfsc_esg_working_group_staff_report.pdf2

link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057/s41260-025-00432-0.pdf1

abnamro.com/research/en/our-research/esg-strategist-investors-do-not-agree-among-themselve1

ago.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/Letter_7.pdf1

api.mziq.com/mzfilemanager/v2/d/b6d5d02a-d245-4afb-987b-797f529e3d41/46393403-120f-f82c-f81

arxiv.org/html/2312.00202v21

bdo.com/getContentAsset/383571fb-7b98-42d2-ba77-a65b60f56039/dfc3d011-8f63-43f6-9ed8-4b4441

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on ISS ESG across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Warning	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0