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Corporate Sustainability Assessment

The CSA 2021 is now open

Join over 1400 companies already generating business value from active CSA participation

Learn more about getting assessed in the CSA

  • Benefits

    The S&P Global CSA enables you to directly report key sustainability metrics and benchmark your company's performance on a wide range of industry-specific economic, environmental and social criteria.

    Benefits of the CSA

  • Use of Results

    CSA results are not only an important resource to the financial community but also to employees, customers and critical NGOs. Find out how the CSA results are used by hundreds of thousands of stakeholders.

    Use of CSA Results

  • Invited Companies

    Over 5,000 publicly traded companies are invited to participate in the S&P Global CSA.

    Invited Companies

The Corporate Sustainability Assessment at a glance

The S&P Global CSA is an annual evaluation of companies’ sustainability practices. Each year over 10,000 companies around the world are assessed. The CSA focuses on criteria that are both industry-specific and financially material and have been doing so since 1999.

  • Riva Krut, VP and Chief Sustainability Officer, Linde PLC
    "We consider the CSA to be the premier external sustainability assessment. To keep our sustainability strategy relevant into the future, Linde can’t simply look into the mirror. We need a way to be able to look into the future. The CSA is one of our key tools to do that"

CSA Resources

  • Policies & Guidelines

    Access legal document related to company participation in the CSA.

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  • About the CSA

    Key facts about the Corporate Sustainability Assessment and its history.

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  • Methodology

    Access supporting documents, methodology updates and webcasts.

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More data. Deeper analysis. Clearer picture.

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The Sustainability Yearbook 2021

Each year, we publish the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook – the world’s most comprehensive publication on corporate sustainability – based on information collected through the CSA.

Not only are the top 15% of companies from each industry included in the Sustainability Yearbook, they are also classified into three categories: Gold Class, Silver Class, Bronze Class.

VIEW THE 2021 SUSTAINABILITY YEARBOOK

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