ESG Data Guide 2025

S&P Global Ratings - S&P Global Ratings Climate Transition Assessment, featuring Shades of Green

Data category

  • Environmental data
  • Governance data
  • Research data
  • Verification/Certification/External opinion
  • Climate transition plans; external assessments

The data offers solutions for:

  • Climate scenario analysis
  • Environmental impact analysis and insight
  • Investment decisions and portfolio insight
  • Reporting: CSRD
  • Reporting: EU Regulations
  • Reporting: Impact
  • Reporting: SFDR
  • Reporting: TCFD
  • Transition plan assessments

Who are the data users?

  • Corporates
  • Financial institutions
  • Government
  • Investors

Brief description of the data offering

Measuring Progress, Not Just Promises.

The Climate Transition Assessment (CTA) is a qualitative opinion on where a company is on its current transition journey and where we expect it to head into the future, based on an assessment of planned transition activities and implementation drivers.

The CTA outcome is a single Future Shade, based on the award-winning Shades of Green approach, which shows the expected alignment of a company’s activities with a low carbon, climate resilient future (and alignment with the Paris Agreement), based on the feasible transition timeline for the company’s sector and its own transition plan/commitments.

Our Climate Transition Assessment now includes industry peer comparison, a Transition Progress score, and greater transparency into our Shades of Green shading approach.

Where and how do you source your data?

  • Documentation provided by the company, such as transition plan; information related to the implementation, management & governance of the transition plan​​; climate transition KPIs; sustainability report (if any), etc.
  • Direct engagement between ratings analysts (both credit and sustainable finance) and company management
  • Publicly available data and information

 

What is the cost for your data offering?

Pricing depends on a number of factors e.g. complexity of transition plan, underlying projects and S&P Global Ratings overall relationship with the company. Please speak to a specialist to learn more.

Contacts

Arlinda Mezini

Director, Product Marketing, Sustainable Finance

arlinda.mezini [at] spglobal.com