ESG Scores and Raw Data

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, and in-depth company engagement via the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). The Corporate Sustainability Assessment includes 62 industry-specific questionaries. You can view sample industry questionnaires for Banks, Pharmaceuticals, and Metals and Mining. CSA invited companies can access the most recent industry questionnaire in the CSA portal.

The S&P Global ESG Score uses a double materiality approach whereby a sustainability issue is considered to be material if it presents a significant impact on society or the environment and a significant impact on a company’s value drivers, competitive position, and long-term shareholder value creation.

Delivery channels include API, Cloud, Desktop, and Feed. Delivery platforms include ClariFI®, FTP, Marketplace Workbench, S&P Capital IQ Pro, Snowflake, XpressAPI, Xpressfeed™ and more.

Available to clients accessing ESG Scores on S&P Capital IQ Pro, ESG Scores Reports provide an analysis of a company's ESG Score and aim to provide greater qualitative contextualization of a company’s ESG performance. The report highlights industry drivers, details performance across the most material criteria, controversy issues, and compares the company to its peers within the same industry classification.

Our ESG Scores take a two-pronged approach that inclues modeling where disclosure is unavailable. The S&P Global CSA Score is the Score without the inclusion of any modeling approaches. For the S&P Global CSA Scores, questions with missing disclosure receive a score of zero.

The S&P Global Media and Stakeholder Analysis (MSA) forms an integral part of the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). It enables S&P Global to monitor a company's sustainability performance on an ongoing basis by assessing current controversies with potentially negative reputational or financial impacts. The main objective of the MSA process is to gain insight into a company’s ability to mitigate financially material and reputational risks, as well as impacts on stakeholders and the environment, while protecting their shareholder value.

An MSA case typically exposes a failure at a company’s management level and gaps in systems and processes, such as risk management systems and operational controls. Consequently, a company’s S&P Global ESG Score may be adjusted. This has no impact on ESG Raw Data.

Covering over 13,000 companies globally, the CSA is an annual evaluation of a company’s sustainability practices. It enables benchmarking on a wide range of industry-specific economic, environmental, and social criteria that are relevant to the growing number of sustainability-focused investors and are expected to be financially relevant to corporate success.

The CSA delivers unparalleled insight into corporate sustainability practices, drawing on more than 25 years of engagement with thousands of companies each year. It goes far deeper than simply determining how transparent companies are by also uncovering how they manage the ESG risks and opportunities, including those new and underreported topics of growing importance that have yet to reach the disclosure agenda.