Enhance CSA scoring
Strategically improve your upcoming response
Prioritize improvement
Use G&A’s thorough knowledge of the CSA process and weightings for scoring individual sections of the company's assessment, and prioritize responses and gaps to earn higher scores.
Identify & organize
Use linkage documents to map the CSA questions with frameworks such as GRI, CDP, ISSB, and others to locate publicly available information.
This step involves collecting publicly available information and internal data, engaging the right subject-matter experts, SMEs, and providing background on the scoring methodology to guide the process.
This stage centers on refining responses with targeted guidance, filling information gaps, analyzing competitor submissions, and prioritizing areas that will maximize scoring improvements.
This phase includes engaging with SMEs, reviewing G&A’s proprietary competitive and gap analysis, coaching internal experts, and updating content based on their feedback.
In this final step, G&A secures approvals from legal and SMEs, submits the final document, and addresses any remaining questions.
Business value
Why submit a CSA response?
Achievement
Positive results could place the company in The Sustainability Yearbook, and/or in one or more of the Dow Jones Best-in-Class Indices.
ESG Investing
A growing number of institutional investors and their asset managers use the Dow Jones Best-in-Class Indices as benchmarks for their ESG investing.
Data Utilization
S&P units utilize CSA data, including for credit risk analysis affecting a company’s credit rating and cost of capital.
Conducting a CSA Response demonstrates a company’s commitment to transparency and performance, enabling investors and stakeholders to evaluate ESG progress with confidence while unlocking access to leading sustainability benchmarks.
Louis D. Coppola
Chief Executive Officer & Co-FounderUnderstanding the Mission
The CSA is a detailed ESG assessment used by S&P Global to evaluate a company’s sustainability performance relative to peers. Your responses impact your S&P Global ESG Score and determine eligibility for the Dow Jones Best-in-Class Indices, which are tracked by investors and financial analysts globally.
S&P expects verifiable evidence such as public reports, policies, data dashboards, and third-party verifications. We’ll help match the company’s existing materials to each question and advise on strengthening disclosures.
Unlike other ratings that rely heavily on public data, the CSA allows companies to proactively provide information through a structured questionnaire. This offers more control over what’s evaluated and scored.
We recommend a cross-functional team with clear leads for each topic (e.g., HR, EHS, legal, and finance). We can provide a response tracker and help facilitate internal coordination to keep the submission on schedule.
Ideally, we recommend allowing six to ten weeks to prepare responses, gather evidence, and go through internal reviews. The official CSA submission window typically runs for about two months.
We offer end-to-end support, including question interpretation, response drafting, evidence collection, internal coordination, and quality assurance. Our goal is to make the process more strategic and efficient, and to optimize the final score.
Strong scores typically come from clear, documented policies, KPIs with targets, and consistent external disclosures. We’ll help identify where responses can be improved or reformatted for clarity and impact.
Yes. We can draft responses, review supporting documents, identify gaps, and suggest enhancements that align with scoring criteria and industry best practices.
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