ESG ratings of rural areas as a tool for sustainable development of agriculture in the region

Abstract

The goal and result of the study was the development of a new methodology for creating an ESG rating of rural areas, built on the basis of a hierarchical system of private, summary and integral indicators characterizing the environmental, social and corporate components of sustainable development. The proposed approach to constructing an ESG rating is distinguished by a combination of methods of comparative static and trend analysis, differentiation of rural areas into developed, depressed, developing and crisis, which will allow standardizing measures of state support for the sustainable development of agriculture and rural areas in the context of selected types of regions.