Our ambition to be a leader in sustainability remains unchanged. To help us realize this ambition, our sustainability and impact strategy is based on three strategic pillars: protect, grow and attract.
The SA国际传谋 offers clients advice and access to the world鈥檚 primary, secondary and private markets. We continue to hone our capabilities through initiatives across Global Markets, ESG Research, Global Banking and data-led offerings.
Our 2024 highlights:
- We facilitated 96 GSSS bond transactions globally (2023: 102).听1
- The SA国际传谋 retained first place in GSSS bond issuance in Brazil.听1
- We completed two pilot transactions on the Carbonplace platform.听1
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We increased our S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) score to 72, (compared with 69 in 2023).听1
UBS Optimus Fundation succeflully raised USD 366 milion in donations.听1
99.8% of the electricity we used across our global real estate portfolio was from renewable sources.听1
ESG Research
- Carbon markets: the challenges and opportunities
- Indian Consumer Sector: APAC Focus 鈥 Is e-B2B ready to disrupt B2B?
- Metals & Trading Companies: Strategies to maximise shareholder value
- Japan Consumption & Inflation: UBS Evidence Lab inside
- Japan Cosmetics Sector: UBS Evidence Lab inside - Premiumisation in China cosmetics market
- How to navigate India's net-zero US$20trn capex across the supply chain?
- Carbon markets face challenges scaling and integrating globally, say panelists
- A roadmap to renewables growth in ASEAN
- The nature of the next recession
- US Recession probabilities -- Part 1
- Latin American Economic Perspectives "Latin America Economic Outlook..."
- Evaluating Tech Companies (part 1): Revenue Growth
- Mexico: Is inflation at a turning point?
- U.S. Payments &鈥塒rocessors
- Latin America Payments: Intense competition led to further MDRs compression (Part 1)
- LatAm Agribusiness: Primer and Handbook - Corn
- Real Estate industry/J-REIT market: How will investment flows impact the structure
- Q-Series Redux: Factory Automation - COVID-19 and the shift to EV
- Carbon Investing: How can we identify Greening Stocks?
- ESG Data: Learning from Rock & Roll
- Tipping Point Alert
- Why the path to circularity in plastics is littered with challenges.
- The Land Squeeze
- Latin America Economic Outlook 2022-2023
- Global Economics & Markets Outlook 2022-2023
- IMO and COP26: Is Shipping doing its Part to Decarbonize?
- China insurance: Could health integration unlock US$160bn profit pool?
- China REITs: US$1.2trn asset class in the making, will China become largest REIT market
- Japan ESG Consumer: New values & social impact importance spread, led by Gen Z
- Chemicals: Carbon 101
- Energy transition and the capital goods sector: A US$75-90tn tailwind for the sector?
- The Compendium - The 10 toughest questions we've fielded
- Chinese female empowerment to drive USD 5.3trn in consumption growth.
- New Retail
- Supercharged R&D and a new data paradigm
- Tech Convergence
- The China Briefing
- Greening the economy
- China鈥檚 innovative retail trends
- Biometric payments
- China's markets open up
- China recycling: emerging threat to metal demand
- Macro Keys 鈥 Economics: Common Prosperity and Policy Implications
- Global Sustainability: Climate change investing
- Why people make the decisions they do, and what it means for society at large
- Not so fast fashion
- Future of Space Tourism: Lifting off? Or has COVID-19 stunted adoption?
- ESG: UK Food Retailers - GCA Surveys - What do suppliers think of retailers?
- De-carbonizing construction: Building a sustainable future
- Smart wireless earphones: the next device to reach annual sales of 1bn units?
- Global Sustainability - ESG Risk Radar - The story so far (4) - visualising transitions
- U.S. Software: The Future of Communications as a Service
- Hey, Where's My Digital Acceleration?
- DevOps Comes of Age in Business Transformation
- Could Elevator & Escalators installations softness put pressure on industry growth
- Q-Series Blue Hydrogen: Will it lead the industrial decarbonisation transition?
- Q-Series Redux - What will the Great Mall of China look like in five years?
- How will consumers spend in reopening? UBS Evidence Lab inside
- Carbon investing: does a lower carbon intensity portfolio sacrifice return
- Is 鈥渄ecarbonization鈥 the next investment trend?
- China market is more compelling
- Is Fintech a disruptor or a nuisance?
- Dialogue with Professor Ekaterina Zhuraskaya
- UK Bus & Rail Initiation: a sector benefiting from ESG credentials, recovery & modal shift
- Future of Food Redux: Has COVID-19 stunted plant-based protein adoption?
- A USD 2.5trn industry at risk? What if consumers stop buying disposable clothes?
- How to think about ESG influences on the Chemicals sector
- Q-Series: What if Japanese Inflation really comes back?
- UBS Global Visionaries presents IWD Panel
- European Non-Life Insurance Launch 鈥 Expect pricing tailwinds to exceed investment drag
- How will USD 140tn of investment be allocated across the energy supply chain?
- Q-Series: The Inflation Compendium (II): 15 Questions Your Portfolio Needs Answered
- What Does This Mean For Cruise Lines
- UBS Evidence Lab inside: First Time With Most Ready To Travel Now
- What鈥檚 on Tap?
- You don鈥檛 have to check every box
- The Inflation Compendium 鈥 What are the 10 most critical market questions? (Part 1)
- Pulp & Paper 鈥 Global Pulp Pulse
- Q-Series: EVs Shifting into Overdrive: could zero-emission trucks disrupt a $1.5T market?
- European Apparel Retail - Retail Therapy: A whole new world
- Global Online Food Delivery: Looking beyond stay at home 鈥 delivering growth and profits
- LatAm Econ Outlook 2021-22
- The electric vehicle revolution is shifting into overdrive
- Iberian Utilities- Looking for value amidst the energy transition
- European Sportswear "Getting back on the pitch"
- Mexico: Could we be underestimating upside risks to inflation?
- Air and train: An accelerated path to carbon neutrality?
- Q-Series: The next two billion in India and ASEAN are going digital 鈥 Who wins?
- LatAm TMT 鈥 The network dilemma: sharing or deploying?
- Accelerating digitalisation 鈥 still on the highway to cloud heaven?
- Q-Series - Future Reimagined: How will the European consumer emerge from the COVID crisis?
- Latam Coronavirus: Vaccination Rollout
- ESG Risk Radar 鈥 LatAm Utilities
- 10b tons to zero: how can China achieve its carbon neutral goal?
- Rising pressure on fossil finance to bring a strong new leg to the climate theme
- Diamonds: UBS Evidence Lab inside: Robust '21 outlook intact
- Q-Series: Reshoring the supply chain: where, what and how much?
- Diving into the hype: is 5G really accretive to smartphone demand?
- LatAm Cement 鈥 Building the New Normal
- Q-Series Redux: eCommerce Migration 鈥 How Much More Online Disruption Post COVID-19?
What we do
Our culture
We are committed to embedding social well-being and sustainability into our day-to-day:
- Our global workforce volunteered a total of 230,258 hours.1
- Our workforce inclusion strategy is reinforced by our public commitments to support all employees, including, but not limited to, the UN Women鈥檚 Empowerment Principles, the Valuable 500 and the Race at Work Charter (UK).1
1听UBS Internal Data, 2025


