The S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment uses a consistent, rule-based methodology to convert an average of 1,000 data points per company into a S&P Global ESG Score. How does the assessment work? Corporate Sustainability Assessment The 6 2 industry-specific questionnaires each contain approximately 100-130 questions covering 23 different key themes across the economic, social and environmental dimension. From data to score — Visualization for a sample industry Your CSA portal — secure, online and easy-to-use The CSA is completed via our secure and user-friendly online questionnaire platform. Our convenient online reporting tool substantially facilitates reporting and, after the first year of participation, it can be pre-filled with previous answers in subsequent years. Our user-friendly online reporting tool allows you to: • access question-specific help functions • easily attach supporting evidence • quickly view questionnaire completion progress with clear color-coding scheme • assign user rights to complete the questionnaire online • control final questionnaire sign-off • benefit from an online repository of your ESG approach and business case reference Learn more about the benefits of active participation in the CSA at spglobal.com/esg/csa 5
