Dividend Aristocrats ESG-score

The Dividend Aristocrats list is a select group of companies in the S&P 500 Index that have increased dividends every year for the last 25 straight years. These US companies that have historically provided (slightly) better performance and (slightly) lower volatility than the S&P 500 as a whole and a great source for dividend investors. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies are becoming more important. Below are all US Dividend Aristocrats listed with their Total ESG-score, score per ESG-element and controversy level. Read more about ESG-investing in this article.
The ESG Risk Rating is rendered on a 0-100 scale.

Lower is better, with 0 indicating that a company has no unmanaged ESG risk and 100 indicating the highest level of ESG risk. In practice, most scores range from 0 to 50, assigned to five risk categories:

• 0-9.99: Negligible ESG Risk
• 10-19.99: Low ESG Risk
• 20-29.99: Medium ESG Risk
• 30-39.99: High ESG Risk
• 40+: Severe ESG Risk

Here is a more visual representation of this ESG scale.

The Controversy Level is between zero (low) and five (high).