Webcast,
Understanding Sustainalytics ESG Risk Ratings
How Sustainalytics ESG risk ratings work — and why they matter for your business. Insights from Sustainalytics and Kirchhoff Consult.
Sustainalytics ESG Risk Ratings play an important role in how investors assess companies’ exposure to ESG risks and how they manage them.
In this joint webinar, Sustainalytics and Kirchhoff Consult will provide a clear and practical introduction to how Sustainalytics ESG Risk Ratings are developed, how companies are assessed, and how organisations can engage with the Sustainalytics research process.
This webinar brings together Sustainalytics’ expertise in ESG research and methodology with Kirchhoff Consult’s experience advising companies on ESG disclosure, communication and positioning, offering a combined perspective for corporates navigating ESG assessments and communicating their ESG performance to the market.
What you will learn
- An overview of the Sustainalytics ESG Risk Rating methodology
- How the Sustainalytics research and annual review process works
- How company disclosures are incorporated into the Sustainalytics assessment
- How Sustainalytics ESG Risk Ratings can be used to benchmark performance against peers
- How companies can engage constructively with Sustainalytics during the research process
- How ESG disclosure and communication practices can support clearer and more effective ESG positioning (Kirchhoff Consult perspective)
Your experts
- Charity Blue, Director of Product Management, Sustainalytics
- Kasey Vosburg, Head of ESG Research & Methodology Oversight, Sustainalytics
- Dr. Alexander Ebolor, Senior Consultant ESG/Nachhaltigkeit, Kirchhoff Consult
We will be happy to send you the presentation for this webcast on request. Please send a short email to alexander.ebolor@kirchhoff.de.

ABOUT KIRCHHOFF CONSULT
With around 70 employees, Kirchhoff Consult is a leading communications and strategy consultancy for financial communications and ESG in German-speaking countries. For more than 30 years, Kirchhoff has been advising clients on all aspects of financial and corporate communications, annual and sustainability reports, IPOs, investor relations and ESG and sustainability communications. 'Designing Sustainable Value': Kirchhoff combines content expertise with excellent design to create sustainable value.
Kirchhoff Consult is a member of TEAM FARNER, a European alliance of partner-led agencies. The common goal: to build the European market leader for integrated communications consulting.
Learn more on: kirchhoff.de
Say Hello.

Dr. Alexander Ebolor
Senior Consultant ESG/Sustainability, Cluster Lead Risk Management & Sustainable Finance
alexander.ebolor@kirchhoff.de
+49 40 609 186 49