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The Corporate Sustainability Assessment (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 that are relevant to the growing number of sustainability focused investors and financially relevant to your corporate success.
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Companies that participate in the CSA year after year consistently tell us:
“We use the CSA as a tool to communicate with the growing number of sustainability focused investors in a convincing and credible way.”
"We use the CSA to develop and implement a successful and sustainable business strategy."
"The CSA helps us to reduce sustainability risks for the company and realize opportunities."
"We value the external/internal recognition for our sustainability performance."
"Participation in the CSA embeds sustainability thinking in the corporate DNA (networks)."
The Corporate Sustainability Assessment enables you to establish a baseline for your sustainability performance and to conduct competitive benchmarking. It helps you learn from the top-performing companies to improve your own performance. It arms you with information about what is happening in the marketplace – which strategies are working, which ones aren’t, and what is driving growth.
An in-depth assessment of your company’s sustainability performance that allows you to monitor KPIs over time and can serve as an essential tool to improve operations and your sustainability ranking in your industry. We facilitate your learning with:
Focus on what investors care about
The CSA focuses on criteria that are both industry-specific and financially material and has been doing so since 1999. This helps you understand which sustainability factors are important from an investor’s perspective, and which in turn, are most likely to have an impact on your company’s financial performance. Thus, the CSA serves as a sustainability roadmap helping you to prioritize corporate sustainability initiatives that are most likely to enhance your company’s competitiveness.
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A dynamic and constantly evolving assessment
We continuously update the questionnaire to capture emerging sustainability trends and opportunities that are expected to shape companies’ competitive environment.
We look at the full picture
The breadth and depth of the assessment across the economic, environmental and social dimensions gives you a unique opportunity to highlight your company’s sustainability strengths in areas that might not be covered in traditional sustainability reports. This results in a more accurate reflection of your company’s sustainability performance.
The CSA turns intangible corporate ESG performance into tangible S&P Global ESG scores, formerly known as SAM ESG Scores. The scores at total, dimension (ESG) and industry specific criteria level are made available to the global investment community on the S&P Global Market Intelligence Xpressfeed™ platform and the S&P Dow Jones Indices SPICE platform.S&P Global ESG scores' clients span across a number of industries including Asset Management, Fintech, and Central Banks. As of March 2022, S&P Global clients representing over US $26 trillion in Assets under Management now integrate S&P Global ESG scores into their investment decision-making processes. S&P Global Clients with over US $13 trillion in assets owned integrate S&P Global ESG scores into their sustainable products and services.
In addition SAM publishes percentile rankings at the criterion, dimension and total score levels - on the Bloomberg Professional platform.
Not only does this allow you to showcase your company’s sustainability performance to the global investment community, it also gives over data-licensees the tools to compare, analyze and identify sustainability leaders, enabling them to integrate relevant sustainability information into their investment decisions
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Participation in the CSA offers various opportunities for enhancing your brand and reputation as a global sustainability leader in the eyes of stakeholders, financial analysts and the public at large.
The results of the S&P Global CSA serve a wide range stakeholders and applications ranging from indices to asset management and from company benchmarking to sustainability-linked loans.
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 USEDEach 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 different distinction categories of top performers and industry movers.
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Aligned with leading sustainability frameworks We work with globally recognized sustainability research and reporting organizations such as the GRI, CDP, CDP Water, GRESB, and EDGE Certified Foundation to align our methodology and questions on specific topics. Not only does this help ensure that our analysis is consistent with leading sustainability research, it also enables you to leverage your CSA responses to complete other sustainability questionnaires and vice-versa, lessening you overall reporting burden.
To further streamline the process of completing the CSA, we offer an XML Taxonomy - a coded representation of all 61 industry-specific CSA questionnaires. This allows you and your software providers to integrate the CSA questionnaire into your corporate reporting systems, enabling you to automatically transfer the required data from your information management platforms directly into the S&P Global CSA. Not only does this reduce the time and resources needed to complete the assessment, but it also provides a consistent approach to transmitting sustainability information, improving the overall quality and accuracy of the data.
To ensure quality and objectivity of the CSA, S&P Global voluntarily appoints independent third-party Deloitte to conduct an external audit of the assessment process each year.
Download the Assurance Statement To learn more about the S&P Global CSA and find out how to participate, please contact:
S&P Global ESG Research
S&P Global Switzerland SA
T: +41 44 529 5160
E: csa@spglobal.com
