Data-led ESG platform GaiaLens has launched its real-time ESG news service, GaiaLens Momentum, to capture and process all relevant news for over 16,000 public companies.

Data-led ESG platform GaiaLens has launched its real-time ESG news service, GaiaLens Momentum, to capture and process all relevant news for over 16,000 public companies.

At launch GaiaLens is running more than 100,000 internet searches per day on these companies, looking for significant company news and news on ESG themes linked to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, SASB and other key themes such as Modern Slavery and Gender Equality.

GaiaLens Momentum gathers and processes news coverage related to public companies wherever it appears across thousands of traditional news sources including national media, specialist investment and ESG trade media coverage, as well as relevant mentions on all key social media channels. Its searches include tweets from over 100 ESG thought leaders which are instantaneously analysed to see if any companies are mentioned.

GaiaLens applies a filter to remove any non-relevant articles. Then all remaining articles are put through rigorous processing including cleaning the body of the articles and adding the meta data such as the date it was published. NLP (Natural Language Processing) techniques are then used to score articles for relevance, quality, and categorisation.