Consensus ESG Ratings

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This unique and powerful ESG Roadmap Report:

• Benchmarks your company against up to 15 comparators of your choice on 12 ESG topics.

• Examines trends in ratings over 3 years.

• Identifies the raters and expert sources you can engage with to improve your company’s ESG ratings.

• Pinpoints and prioritizes the ESG indicators by data source in the ESG Lever for focused action.

Use CSRHub data for your executive team to benchmark or for your client company.

• CSRHub ratings are driven by the consensus view of an entity’s ESG performance.

• Users should examine the difference between an entity’s score and that of the other entities in the report.

• A one point difference can be significant (i.e., there is a 95% chance that raters in general see a difference in performance).

Easily track ratings changes over time to look for patterns. 

• Ratings tend to follow long term (more than six month) trends.

• Companies tend to start with very high or very low scores and “revert” towards the mean.  Company scores also tend to revert towards their average long-term rating.

• Notice if the fluctuation you see is similar for all comparators. Examine the pace of change in each trend line.

• Set a goal for future ranking performance.

Who is tracking a company and who isn’t?

• In this section of the report, we compare the involvement of the focus company stakeholders to those of the comparator companies.

• Our data source stakeholders include ESG analysts (who typically serve investors), reporting systems such as SASB, voluntary membership organizations, and other nonprofits that rate particular aspects of ESG.

• Each table will display only those sources who cover at least one comparator company. A link to CSRHub’s web site will show all possible sources.

Get leverage over ESG ratings.

• The ESG Lever chart classifies the raters for the focus company by the weight (authority) of their ratings (impact on score) and perceived performance (are the ratings from a source above or below the average for the company).

• Raters are placed into one of four quadrants with those on the right column having more weight and those on the bottom two quadrants having lower scores.

• Raters shaded in green are moving up their scores of the focus company and raters shaded in orange are moving down.

• Following the link to the CSRHub web site gives you the option of drilling down by area and looking and underlying data details.

CSRHub Ratings Reveal How Companies Are Performing On 12 Different ESG Dimensions

• Over 900 data sources have produced more than 600 million measures of ESG performance.

• CSRHub aggregates these independent ESG rating sources into stable, comparable scores that can be used to drive many types of decisions.

• Benchmarking, engagement strategy, ESG reporting strategy, communications and marketing plans, and supply chain evaluations can all be looked at from a stable, top-down, perspective.

Trends Over Time, Comparisons With Peers, Industry Groups, & Geographic Regions

• CSRHub’s ratings history goes back to 2008.

• More than 56,000 entities are in CSRHub’s system—virtually every public company plus most large private companies, government bodies, and not for profits.

• The Roadmap analysis brings all of the available ratings data together to help ESG managers, C-level executives, and corporate boards collaborate to improve ESG performance.