Overview: 14Uniquely Positioned to Deliver Essential Sustainability Intelligence
S&P Global’s Sustainable1 solutions are powered by:
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
The S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) is an annual evaluation of companies’ sustainability practices relative to industry peers, focusing on criteria that are both industry-specific and financially material. The CSA provides internal and external stakeholders with important insights into a company’s sustainability performance and value drivers. The CSA was established in 1999 and acquired by S&P Global in 2019.
- For the 2022 cycle of the CSA, the CSA scored more than 13,000 companies. More than 3,000 of these companies completed the CSA, an increase from approximately 2,250 in 2021
- The CSA compares companies across 61 industries via questionnaires assessing a mix of 80–100 cross-industry and industry-specific questions
- Companies are selected for inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), S&P 500 ESG, and several other sustainability indices in part based on their results in the S&P Global CSA
S&P Global ESG Scores: Calculated by the CSA
The S&P Global ESG Score measures a company’s performance on and management of material ESG risks, opportunities, and impacts informed by a combination of company disclosures, media and stakeholder analysis, modeling approaches (as of CSA 2023), and in-depth company engagement via the CSA.
The S&P Global ESG Score is a relative score measuring a company’s performance on and management of ESG risks, opportunities, and impacts compared to their peers within the same industry classification.
Measuring Climate & Nature Risk
S&P Global Sustainable1’s offerings assess risks relating to climate change, nature & biodiversity impacts and dependencies, natural resource constraints, and broader ESG factors to inform the unique sustainability journeys of companies, financial institutions, governments, and policy makers.
- Carbon emissions and other pollutant impacts
- Physical and transition climate risks
- Water use
- Nature & Biodiversity impact and dependencies
- Waste disposal
- ESG scores and raw data
S&P Global Sustainable1’s essential sustainability intelligence is powered by data intelligence from:
- Trucost
now part of S&P Global - The Climate Service
now part of S&P Global - IHS Markit
now S&P Global
Market participants look to S&P Global’s high quality data and dynamic solutions to navigate the evolving sustainability landscape