POWERED BY SD-KPIs · IN COOPERATION WITH DEUTSCHE BANK
Exclusive ESG-Benchmarking in
5 minutes
Industry-specific.
Find out your ESG status in just 5 minutes, compare yourself to your industry peers, and identify ESG risks and areas for improvement. Get a free initial assessment that includes benchmarking and clear next steps.
ESG-Status in 5 minutes
Answer a few specific questions about environmental, social, and governance issues.
Industry Comparison
Benchmark your sustainability performance anonymously against approximately 10,000
Companies
Identifying Risks
Get an initial assessment, specific areas for improvement and clear next steps.
BaFin
Deutsche Bank
SASB/ ISSB
WHAT YOU GET
Two Pages. Your ESG Positioning Compared to the Industry
Immediately after completion, you will receive an instant assessment of your current situation, and within 48 hours our team will send you a bespoke PDF report. Designed to be opened and viewed during stakeholder meetings.
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Industry benchmark as a bar chart
See at a glance how you stack up against your peer group for each SD KPI. The green bars show your value in the distribution across 10,000 companies. -
Three KPIs, clearly weighted according to industry
Three meaningful KPIs per industry enable a clear and balanced assessment of your ESG performance. -
Concrete plan for action
For each KPI, a brief overview of your current position and the next logical step. This is not a theoretical treatise, but a discussion guide for your stakeholders. -
Methodologically approved by BaFin
The 2010 and 2016 SD-KPI standards are cited in the BaFin guidance note on sustainability risks, both in relation to strategy and risk management.
START TODAY
Understand your ESG position. Before others ask about it.
Answer a few industry-specific questions. Receive an immediate assessment of your three key ESG risks, including a comparison with your peer group, and a customized two-page report within 48 hours.
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48h
PILLAR II · INDUSTRY COMPARISON
You can see not only where you are, but also who is around you.
Each of your three SD KPI values is plotted against a distribution for your peer group.
10.000
Peer companies
68
GICS sectors with their own sets of KPIs
3x
Why this helps: A single number doesn't tell you much. “72/100” only becomes meaningful when you know that the industry average is 54 and that 30% of your competitors are performing better than you. This is exactly the kind of context the self-assessment provides for each KPI.
Not “just another questionnaire.”
A scientific standard.
SD-M’s SD-KPI standards have been the industry standard for focused ESG indicators for over ten years. These were developed on behalf of the German federal government, are recognized by BaFin, and align closely with the SASB and ISSB. We use them as the methodological basis for our self-assessment.
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Industry-specific
Since 2009, the SD-KPInform database has been organized to cover over 60 industries and more than 10,000 companies. -
Focused on three KPIs
Effectively manageable and proven in practice among small and medium-sized businesses. -
Globally compatible
High alignment with industry-specific IFRS Sustainability Standards (formerly SASB). -
Data-driven
Benchmark involving approximately 10,000 companies.
Banks are assessing ESG risks.
If you go into a conversation prepared, you'll have the upper hand.
ESG data has now become an integral part of loan discussions. Banks must assess their borrowers for ESG risks. The following regulatory chain explains why:
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SFDR & CSRD
Banks must identify ESG risks for each borrower and report them to the ECB. -
ECB-Stresstests
ESG and climate risks are factored into the bank's valuation: on a per-portfolio and per-exposure basis. -
First fines
Banks that provide insufficient ESG risk data are already being penalized.
HOW IT WORKS
Select an industry. Answer the questions.
Receive your report.
You can get started without having to enter any data. No need to provide company figures in advance, and no 30-page
templates. Only the questions that are truly relevant to your industry, completed in ten minutes.
Select your industry
- 1 MINUTE
Answer questions
- max. 5 MINUTES
Receive your report
- IMMEDIATELY + WITHIN 48 HOURS
WHAT YOU USE IT FOR
Four applications, one report.
The self-assessment report is not an end in itself. It is a one- to two
-page conversation guide. These are the four situations in which it is
most frequently used.
Risk and Strategy Overview
You identify the three key ESG risks in your industry before the executive board, insurers, or supervisory board even ask about them. Includes a roadmap for action.
- EXECUTIVE LEVEL
Industry benchmark
See at a glance how you stack up against 10,000 companies for each KPI, broken down by GICS sector.
- PEER-GROUP
Bankgespräch & Stakeholder-Dialog
Banks assess ESG risks on a borrower-by-borrower basis. They provide data in a format that their reporting systems can process: a clear advantage in negotiations (no guarantee of terms).
- SFDR · EBA
First foray into ESG
Don’t have an ESG database yet? That’s exactly what the self-assessment is for: it focuses on the essentials without getting bogged down in the complexities of the ESRS.
- VSME · Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises