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A screen that aggregates the Gambling Operations and Gambling Support Services screens.
2 direct · 2 evaluated below
Identifies companies and other entities that own, operate, manage, or materially control customer-facing gambling venues, platforms, or wagering services in which participants stake money or another item of redeemable value on a game, contest, contingency, or event for the possibility of receiving money or another prize of value. This includes physical and online casinos, sportsbooks, bookmakers, betting exchanges, lotteries, pari-mutuel wagering, gaming-machine operations, paid fantasy or prediction products that function as wagering, sweepstakes or dual-currency casino models with economically valuable wagering, and direct ownership of purpose-built gambling properties. The factual classification applies whether the activity is licensed, unlicensed, prohibited, or legally disputed; legal status is recorded separately. Bona fide financial instruments used principally for investment, hedging, insurance, or price discovery are excluded. Retail event-contract models with mixed or disputed regulatory treatment are classified from their economic function, customer use, marketing, contract design, and the entity's transaction role rather than from labels alone. A company may also qualify for Gambling Support Services where it separately supplies gambling-specific products or services to third parties.
9 included · 7 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that supply products or services specifically designed, materially modified, marketed, or contractually dedicated to gambling operations, including gambling equipment, software, game content, odds or trading data, affiliate marketing, white-label or managed platforms, external lottery services, and gambling-dedicated transaction, payment, wallet, identity, geolocation, KYC, fraud-control, player-exclusion, or compliance infrastructure. A provider may qualify at the product, service, platform, or contract level even when it also serves other industries; the relevant offering need not be used solely for gambling. Generic or incidental services are excluded unless evidence establishes a gambling-specific nexus. A company may qualify for both Gambling Operations and Gambling Support Services when separately supported activities satisfy each leaf.
7 included · 6 excluded
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Military Weapons, Munitions and Combat Platforms; Military Operational, Electronic and Space Systems; and Defence Operations, Infrastructure and Services.
3 direct · 70 evaluated below
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Small Arms and Light Weapons; Heavy Weapons and Artillery Systems; Missiles, Rockets, Torpedoes and Launch Systems; Armoured Combat Vehicles; Military Aircraft and Aerial Systems; Military Naval Vessels and Underwater Systems; Military Unmanned Platforms and Weaponized Combat Systems; Conventional Ammunition, Bombs and Explosive Munitions; Military Weapons Components and Subsystems; and the separately maintained Controversial Weapons and Landmines branches.
11 direct · 62 evaluated below
A screen that aggregates Military Cyber and Electronic Warfare Systems; Military Logistics Vehicles and Dedicated Transport Systems; Military Space Systems; and Military Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting Systems.
4 direct · 5 evaluated below
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Military Bases and Infrastructure; Military Training and Simulation Systems; and Defence IT, Networks and Cybersecurity Systems.
3 direct · 3 evaluated below
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Adult Media Production, Adult Media Distribution and Streaming, and Adult Entertainment Services and Venues.
3 direct · 3 evaluated below
Identifies companies and other entities that create, commission, finance, publish, or own production brands for pornographic or sexually explicit media intended primarily for sexual entertainment. Distribution-only roles, physical venues, user-generated-content platforms without production or editorial responsibility, mainstream entertainment with incidental sexual content, and verified exited activity are excluded.
6 included · 5 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that intentionally distribute, license, stream, aggregate, or materially monetize pornographic or sexually explicit media produced by third parties. Qualifying platforms exercise commercial control through curation, subscriptions, advertising, transaction processing, creator monetization, or content-library licensing. Generic hosting, cloud, telecommunications, payment, advertising, or mainstream platforms with incidental or inadequately controlled third-party content are excluded unless adult content is a deliberate and material business activity.
6 included · 5 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that operate or commercially control physical venues or services whose principal offering is sexually explicit live entertainment or adult sexual services, including strip clubs, adult theatres, peep shows, and comparable licensed establishments. General nightlife, hospitality, dating, mainstream events, digital media-only activity, and matching platforms without operation or commercial control of the underlying adult service are excluded.
5 included · 5 excluded
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Alcoholic Beverage Production, Alcohol Distribution and Wholesale, and Alcohol Retail and Hospitality.
3 direct · 3 evaluated below
Identifies companies and other entities that brew, ferment, distil, blend, formulate, bottle, or contract-manufacture beverages containing alcohol for consumer use, including beer, wine, spirits, liqueurs, ciders, and ready-to-drink products. Brand owners with production responsibility are included. Distribution, retail and hospitality without production, industrial or fuel alcohol, ingredients and packaging, and products below the applicable jurisdiction’s alcoholic-beverage threshold are excluded.
6 included · 6 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that import, export, wholesale, broker, or provide dedicated business-to-business distribution or fulfilment for alcoholic beverages. General freight without alcohol specialization, direct-to-consumer retail or delivery, production-only roles, ingredients and equipment, and ceased distribution are excluded.
5 included · 6 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that directly sell or serve alcoholic beverages to consumers through liquor retail, grocery, e-commerce, bars, restaurants, hotels, venues, or comparable hospitality channels. The screen records factual sale or service; revenue, materiality, incidental-service and diversified-retailer thresholds are client-policy overlays. Marketplaces without transaction or fulfilment responsibility and businesses without current alcohol sales are excluded.
5 included · 5 excluded
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Tobacco and Nicotine Product Manufacturing, Tobacco and Nicotine Product Distribution and Wholesale, and Tobacco and Nicotine Product Retail and Consumer Sale.
3 direct · 3 evaluated below
Identifies companies and other entities that manufacture, formulate, or contract-manufacture tobacco products or non-pharmaceutical consumer nicotine products, including cigarettes, cigars, smoking tobacco, smokeless tobacco, heated-tobacco products, e-cigarettes, vaping liquids containing nicotine, nicotine pouches, and comparable consumer delivery products. Pharmaceutical nicotine-replacement therapies, non-nicotine devices, cannabis products, generic raw materials, and components without finished-product responsibility are excluded.
5 included · 5 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that import, export, wholesale, broker, or provide dedicated distribution and fulfilment for tobacco products or non-pharmaceutical consumer nicotine products. General logistics without tobacco or nicotine specialization, direct consumer retail, manufacturing-only roles, pharmaceutical nicotine-replacement products, non-nicotine devices, and cannabis products are excluded.
5 included · 6 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that directly sell or fulfil orders for tobacco products or non-pharmaceutical consumer nicotine products to consumers through physical or online channels. The screen records factual sale; revenue or materiality thresholds for diversified retailers are client-policy overlays. Marketplaces that merely host third-party listings without sale or fulfilment responsibility, pharmaceutical cessation products, non-nicotine alternatives, and ceased sales are excluded.
5 included · 5 excluded
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Nuclear Power Generation, Civilian Nuclear Fuel Production and Supply, Civilian Nuclear Power Plant Development and Engineering, and Civilian Nuclear Support Services and Technology.
4 direct · 4 evaluated below
Identifies companies and other entities that own or operate civilian nuclear reactors used to generate electricity, including reactors in commercial operation and units in commissioning where the entity has accepted operational responsibility. Generating-capacity and revenue thresholds are client-policy overlays. Research or isotope reactors, nuclear-weapons facilities, suppliers without operational responsibility, plants solely in decommissioning, and announced projects without construction or commissioning activity are excluded.
5 included · 6 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that mine, mill, convert, enrich, fabricate, reprocess, or commercially supply nuclear fuel or fuel-cycle materials for civilian power reactors, including uranium, mixed-oxide fuel, and other reactor fuels. The civilian-use role must be evidenced. Weapons-only enrichment or fissile-material activity, generic mining without uranium involvement, logistics alone, waste management alone, research-reactor-only activity, and verified exited operations are excluded.
6 included · 6 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that design, develop, construct, or provide nuclear-specific engineering, procurement, construction, or material modernization for civilian power reactors or nuclear generating stations. Qualifying activity requires an active project, commercial technology programme, or documented nuclear plant role. General construction, standard components, operation-only roles, weapons or research reactors, decommissioning-only work, and speculative announcements without active development are excluded.
6 included · 6 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that provide nuclear-specific products, technology, or services for the safe operation, maintenance, inspection, decommissioning, spent-fuel management, radioactive-waste management, or remediation of civilian nuclear-power infrastructure. Generic engineering, standard industrial components, general information technology, medical or research waste handling, fuel production, plant operation, and weapons-related support are excluded unless a separate qualifying civilian nuclear role is evidenced.
6 included · 6 excluded
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Palm Oil Cultivation and Plantation Ownership, Palm Oil Processing and Refining, and Palm Oil Distribution and Downstream Use.
3 direct · 3 evaluated below
Identifies companies and other entities that own, control, or directly operate oil-palm plantations or cultivate and harvest oil-palm fruit for commercial use. Land ownership without oil-palm cultivation, other crops, processing or trading without plantation activity, and fully divested or ceased operations are excluded. Certification, traceability, deforestation, conversion, labour, and materiality characteristics are recorded separately as evidence or policy attributes.
5 included · 5 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that own or operate mills, crushers, refineries, fractionation facilities, or derivative-manufacturing processes that convert oil-palm fruit, crude palm oil, palm-kernel oil, or palm feedstocks into commercial ingredients or intermediates. Cultivation-only roles, trading without physical processing, downstream product use, non-palm oils, and ceased activity are excluded. Certification, sourcing and traceability status are recorded separately.
5 included · 5 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that intentionally and materially trade, distribute, formulate, manufacture, brand, or sell products containing palm oil, palm-kernel oil, or identifiable palm-derived ingredients. The direct activity and product or supply-chain connection must be documented; incidental exposure through broad retail assortments or remote commodity chains is handled through client-policy thresholds rather than presumed. Cultivation and processing are classified separately, while generic logistics, ingredient supply without palm evidence, and verified palm-free operations are excluded.
5 included · 5 excluded
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Commercial Whale Hunting and Processing and Whale Meat Distribution and Export.
2 direct · 2 evaluated below
Identifies companies and other commercial entities that hunt, capture, land, butcher, process, render, freeze, or package whales or whale-derived food products for commercial sale. The activity type, species, jurisdiction, permit or quota status, entity role, and date must be recorded. Aboriginal subsistence activity, non-commercial community use, special-permit scientific activity, retail or restaurant sale without hunting or processing, conservation activity, and verified ceased involvement are excluded.
5 included · 6 excluded
Identifies companies and other commercial entities that import, export, wholesale, store, or provide contract-specific distribution for whale meat or whale-derived food products. Inclusion requires reliable evidence of the entity’s knowing role in the commercial movement or sale of the product. Consumer-level retail or restaurants, generic freight without documented whale-product handling, hunting or processing without distribution, subsistence activity, and verified ceased trade are excluded.
5 included · 5 excluded
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Animal Testing for Non-Medical Products, Animal Testing for Medical Products, Factory Farming and Intensive Animal Confinement, Fur and Exotic Animal Product Production, and Animal Entertainment and Commercial Exploitation after the staged retirement and migration of Animal Testing for Mandatory Requirements.
5 direct · 5 evaluated below
Identifies companies and other entities that conduct, commission, or control animal testing for cosmetics, personal-care products, household products, chemicals, or other non-medical consumer or industrial products. Whether the testing is voluntary, legally required, required by a customer, or performed by a supplier must be recorded as evidence rather than used to create a separate factual activity screen. Medical-product testing, non-animal methods, distribution without testing control, and verified no-testing operations are excluded.
6 included · 4 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that conduct, commission, or control animal testing for the research, development, safety assessment, quality control, or regulatory approval of human pharmaceuticals, biologics, vaccines, or medical devices. The study purpose, species, own or commissioned role, regulatory status, and availability of accepted non-animal methods are evidence attributes. Non-medical testing, distribution without research responsibility, academic non-commercial research, and verified operations using only non-animal methods are excluded.
6 included · 6 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that own or operate commercial terrestrial livestock or poultry production using intensive confinement systems, high stocking densities, or routine husbandry practices associated with restricted movement or material welfare risk. The factual screen records production system, species, scale, and practices; welfare rankings, certification, legal compliance and client thresholds are separate evidence or policy attributes. Processing without farming, aquaculture, generic suppliers, and operations documented as non-intensive are excluded.
6 included · 6 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that breed, hunt, kill, process, manufacture, or intentionally source animals or animal materials for real fur, exotic skins, or comparable animal-derived fashion and luxury products. This includes fur farms, commercial hunting or breeding, pelt and exotic-hide processing, and product manufacturers or brand owners with direct sourcing responsibility. Faux materials, ordinary livestock leather, passive retail of third-party goods below client thresholds, second-hand resale, conservation activity, and verified exited use are excluded.
6 included · 6 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that operate or commercially control entertainment, tourism, sport, performance, interaction, transport, or hunting activities in which live animals are a central attraction or service. The factual screen records the type of activity, species, captivity or interaction model, commercial role, and current status; welfare severity, accreditation, conservation claims and client exclusions are separate attributes or policy choices. Non-invasive wildlife viewing, genuine rescue or rehabilitation, service-animal and therapeutic programmes, ordinary pet services, and productions using no live animals are excluded.
7 included · 7 excluded
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Breast-Milk Substitutes Manufacturing and Breast-Milk Substitutes Marketing Violations.
2 direct · 2 evaluated below
Identifies companies and other entities that formulate or manufacture products within the applicable scope of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes or corresponding national rules, including infant formula, follow-up formula, growing-up milks marketed for young children where covered, represented complementary foods, and feeding bottles and teats where the methodology elects to include them. General dairy, unrelated medical nutrition, baby foods outside the selected scope, breastfeeding-support products, and human-milk banking are excluded.
6 included · 6 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities for which reliable evidence establishes marketing, promotion, labelling, sponsorship, sampling, distribution, or sales practices that contravene the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, subsequent relevant World Health Assembly resolutions, or an applicable national legal requirement. Each finding must identify the entity, product, conduct, jurisdiction or governing standard, date, and evidence source. Manufacture or lawful sale alone, permitted scientific or factual information, unrelated sponsorship, and unsubstantiated list inclusion are excluded.
6 included · 6 excluded
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Production of Prohibited, Non-Approved or Severely Restricted Biocidal Products and Distribution and Sale of Prohibited, Non-Approved or Severely Restricted Biocidal Products.
2 direct · 2 evaluated below
Identifies companies and other entities that manufacture active substances or formulate biocidal products whose manufacture, placement on the market, or specified use is prohibited, not approved, cancelled, or severely restricted under an identified jurisdiction, legal instrument, product type, and effective date. Hazard classification alone does not establish inclusion. Fertilizers without a biocidal function, pharmaceuticals, approved products outside the restriction, ordinary cleaning products without regulated biocidal claims, distribution-only roles, and low-risk biological controls not subject to the identified restriction are excluded.
6 included · 6 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that knowingly import, export, wholesale, retail, market, or materially facilitate commercial sale of biocidal products whose placement on the market or specified use is prohibited, not approved, cancelled, or severely restricted under an identified jurisdiction, legal instrument, product type, and effective date. Generic marketplaces, freight or retail exposure without knowledge or material commercial control, approved products, medicines, waste handling, and manufacturing without a distribution role are excluded.
7 included · 6 excluded
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Medical Cannabis and Cannabinoid Products and Recreational Cannabis and Cannabinoid Products.
2 direct · 2 evaluated below
Identifies companies and other entities that cultivate, manufacture, process, distribute, dispense, or commercialize cannabis or cannabinoid products specifically authorized, prescribed, supplied, or clinically developed for medical or pharmaceutical use. This includes regulated medical cannabis and approved or investigational cannabinoid medicines. Recreational products, industrial hemp and general-wellness CBD without medical positioning, synthetic non-cannabis compounds without cannabinoid activity, ancillary services, and non-commercial research are excluded.
7 included · 6 excluded
Identifies companies and other entities that cultivate, manufacture, process, distribute, or directly sell cannabis, psychoactive cannabinoid products, or adult-use cannabis consumer products for non-medical use. Jurisdictional legality is recorded separately and does not change the factual activity. Medical-only products, industrial hemp without adult-use positioning, non-intoxicating wellness CBD without recreational positioning, pharmaceutical cannabinoid medicines, ancillary services, and research or advocacy are excluded.
7 included · 6 excluded
A screen that aggregates the Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, and High-Impact Fossil Fuel Extration screens.
4 direct · 19 evaluated below
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Natural Gas Exploration and Extraction, Natural Gas Processing and Liquefaction, Natural Gas Transport, Storage, Trading and Distribution, Natural Gas Reserves, and Gas-Fired Power Generation.
5 direct · 5 evaluated below
A criteria-free aggregate derived from Hydraulic Fracturing, Deepwater Oil and Gas Exploration and Drilling, Oil Sands and Tar Sands, Arctic Oil and Gas Exploration and Extraction, and Arctic Drilling Infrastructure and Services after the staged retirement and migration of Shale Oil & Shale Gas.
4 direct · 5 evaluated below