The corporate sustainability assessment
Sustainability Yearbook: Selection Process Overview
The Sustainability Yearbook distinguishes companies within their industries that have each demonstrated strengths in corporate sustainability.
Yearbook members and distinction levels are selected based on their 2025 Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) Score, which is the S&P Global ESG Score without the inclusion of any modeling approaches. The selection process also reflects exclusion screening criteria. Distinctions are calculated against the top performing company in each industry, and exclusions applied thereafter.
Important: Distinction level and Scores are industry specific.
More information on the selection process and exclusions is provided below. Find out who made it to the top.
Top 1%
Within each industry, companies with a minimum CSA Score of 60, whose score is within 1% of the industry’s top-performing company.
Top 5%
Within each industry, companies with a CSA Score of at least 57, whose score is within a range of 1% to 5% of the industry’s top-performing company. This distinction is not assigned if no company in the industry achieved a minimum CSA score of 60.
Top 10%
Within each industry, companies with a CSA Score of at least 54, whose score is within a range of 5% to 10% of the industry’s top-performing company. This distinction is not assigned if no company in the industry achieved a minimum CSA score of 60.
Industry Mover
The company achieved an improvement in its S&P Global CSA Score of at least five percent and accomplished the strongest improvement in their industry. On the condition that the company is a Yearbook Member and participated in the CSA this year and last year.
Member
Within each industry, companies with a CSA Score of at least 30, ranking within 15% of the industry’s top performing companies by number, and scoring within 30% of the industry’s top performing company.
Companies included in the Sustainability Yearbook 2025 can download their emblems using this tool.
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Disclaimer
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Selection Process
Universe
The selection of companies in The Sustainability Yearbook 2026 is based on the 2025 Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA).
The underlying universe of companies was determined on 31 December 2025, covering all companies assessed in the 2025 CSA until that date. S&P Global continues to assess companies against the 2025 CSA after 31 December 2025. However, these companies are not eligible for inclusion in The Sustainability Yearbook 2026 with the exception of companies that submitted their CSA before October 17, 2025, and an earlier CSA score publication was delayed for reasons caused by S&P Global.
Exclusion Screening
The Exclusion Screening applied for the Yearbook is aligned with the methodology used for Scored & Screened indices managed by S&P Dow Jones Indices. Learn more about S&P Global Business Involvement Screens and the S&P Scored & Screened Index Series Methodology.
Controversy Screening
As a prerequisite, a screen based on the S&P Global Media and Stakeholder Analysis (MSA) is applied to determine eligibility for inclusion in The Sustainability Yearbook regardless of the score derived from the CSA. The MSA is based on an examination of media coverage and publicly available stakeholder information and evaluates a company’s response to critical sustainability issues that may arise during the year.
After initial release of the Yearbook, a company’s designation level in the Yearbook may be revoked at the sole discretion of S&P Global if a company receives a severe case rating in MSA process. If a company is subject to a new Major MSA case post initial Yearbook release the company will not be invited to any in-person Yearbook distinction ceremony.
Quarterly updates to the public Yearbook ranking pages will reflect changes resulting from score updates of companies with new Major MSA cases (post Yearbook launch). Updates will happen end of June, end of September and end of December. Only the distinction level/score of companies with new Major MSA cases will be updated.
S&P Global CSA Scores
S&P Global CSA Scores are based on the assessment of corporate sustainability performance in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). Scores are from 0 – 100 (best).
The CSA uses 62 industry-specific questionnaires. The scores should not be used to rank companies across industries and should be reviewed within the context of each CSA industry.
All scores used for initial Yearbook selection reflect the results of S&P Global’s Media & Stakeholder Analysis (MSA) as of February 5, 2025 as well as any exclusions based on companies with a severe case rating in the S&P Global Media and Stakeholder Analysis process.
The most recent S&P Global CSA Scores are available on the S&P Global website https://www.spglobal.com/sustainable1/en/solutions/esg-scores-data.
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Corporate Actions
Company names and countries are reviewed periodically and updated to the best of S&P Global’s knowledge at the time of publication. Changes occurring after the publication may be updated on the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook website.