[10] On a daily basis, RepRisk assesses ESG risks such as environmental degradation, human rights abuses, child labor, forced labor, fraud, and corruption that can impact an organization's reputation, financial profitability, or lead to compliance issues.

[16] The RepRisk database systematically identifies ESG risks by analyzing over 100,000 sources per day[17] in 20 major business languages.

[24] RepRisk was formed in 1998[1] as ECOFACT,[25] a Zurich-based environmental and social risk consultancy focused on the financial sector.

In 2006, its ESG risk database was created at the request of UBS, and in 2010, RepRisk split from the consultancy and became an independent company.

[22] RepRisk screens, on a daily basis, over 100,000 public sources and external stakeholders, including international and local print and online media, news websites, newsletters, NGOs, governmental bodies, think tanks, blogs and Twitter,[11] in 20 major business languages.

[82] Unaoil Since 2013, RepRisk releases a yearly ranking of the top ten most controversial projects in the world, related to ESG issues.