Free self-assessment · under three minutes · peer-benchmarked
Heat, flood, air and drought do not only damage assets. They sever the path between a person and the care they need, and they do it before anything on your risk register moves. CAVS-S gives you a directional read on where that is already happening inside your own operations, scored across four access dimensions and benchmarked against what your peers actually disclosed.
It is free, it takes under three minutes, and it is built to give a usable signal rather than a teaser. Three minutes of a leadership team's attention is worth something, which is exactly why it is built to earn it.
Definition
Definition · climate-access
Climate-access is the gap between care that exists on paper and care a person can actually reach once climate conditions intervene. A clinic that is open but unreachable in a flood, a medicine that is stocked but degraded by heat, a health worker who cannot travel, a patient who cannot afford to lose a day's wage to a journey in 44 degrees. The service is funded and the outcome still does not happen.
This is measurable, and it is the thing most organisations are not measuring.
Emissions accounting tells you what you contribute. Climate-access exposure tells you what is being done to the people your programme, product or workforce depends on. A company can hold a credible net-zero target and still run health and CSR programmes that stall on the first bad monsoon week, because nothing in the reporting asked the question.
The reason it stays invisible is structural. Climate risk sits with sustainability teams and access sits with commercial or programme teams, and the two rarely score the same asset. CAVS-S puts one score across both.
Methodology
Each answer maps to one of four dimensions, and each dimension is banded rather than given a false precision. The bands are directional, and they are designed so that an honest "we do not track that" is a usable answer rather than a gap you have to bluff.
Whether people can physically get to the point of care, and whether your sites stay operational, when heat, water or a blocked route intervenes. Distance is not the variable. Reachability under stress is.
Whether what you move arrives usable. Cold chain holding through a heat window, routes holding through a monsoon, and whether a break would be detected at all or discovered later at the point of delivery.
Whether the people who deliver, sell, distribute or care can safely work. Outdoor and transit-exposed roles carry this first, and the exposure shows up as absence and error rates well before it shows up as an incident report.
Whether the people you serve can still act on the need. Lost wages, competing household costs and displacement all suppress care-seeking, and the drop reads as falling demand rather than as a barrier you could remove.
Benchmark
Your answers are scored against the FY2024-25 BRSR disclosures of 59 listed Indian companies.
That matters because it is not a survey of intentions. It is what companies were willing to put in a filing, which makes it the most conservative honest baseline available, and it means a "moderate" band on your result is moderate relative to disclosed practice rather than relative to best practice in a brochure.
It also means the benchmark inherits the limits of the source. BRSR disclosure on climate-linked access is thin, which is itself the finding. Where peers disclose nothing, the comparison tells you the ground is open rather than that you are ahead. If you want to know what BRSR does and does not require, the BRSR explainer covers it, and the regulations and standards library sets it against GRI, TCFD and ISSB, ESRS and the rest.
Scope
You get an exposure band, a per-dimension read, a named list of the data gaps your own answers exposed, and a short written interpretation of what the pattern usually means.
That output is enough to open a real internal conversation and enough to decide whether the question deserves budget.
You do not get an audited verdict. CAVS-S runs on your judgement of your own operations, not on your data, so it is a directional instrument. It cannot be filed, it will not survive assurance, and it is not designed to. The paid Climate Access Stress Test is the version that runs on your actual numbers across a full climate-health year and produces metrics that lift into a BRSR or funder report and stand up under audit. CAVS-S exists to tell you whether that is worth doing.
Audience
Sustainability and CSR leads who have to defend a programme against a reporting deadline. Access and commercial teams in pharma and healthcare who suspect their reach numbers are being quietly eroded. Programme leads in NGOs and development-finance-backed work who need to show a funder that continuity was thought about. Manufacturing and FMCG teams carrying duty-of-care exposure on an outdoor workforce. If you sit outside those and the question still lands, run it anyway.
FAQ
Free, with no payment step anywhere. You give an email at the end to receive the result. Your answers and result are stored so the assessment can be sent and followed up on, and nothing is sold or passed to a third party. If you would rather see the questions without submitting anything, work through the tool and stop before the result step.
Under three minutes for most people. The questions are written to be answerable from what a senior person already knows, without pulling a report.
Say so. Every question carries an honest "we do not track that" option, and choosing it improves the result rather than weakening it. An untracked dimension is a finding, and the output names those gaps back to you.
The peer benchmark is Indian, drawn from BRSR filings, so the comparison is sharpest for organisations operating in India. The four dimensions are not country-specific, and the assessment runs for organisations based elsewhere with the benchmark treated as indicative rather than local.
A standard climate risk assessment scores physical and transition risk to assets, revenue and compliance position. This scores the route between your organisation and the people who depend on it. The two overlap on facilities and diverge everywhere else, which is why an organisation can carry a completed climate risk assessment and still have no view of its access exposure.
CAVS-S is the free, self-scored, directional version. CAST, the Climate Access Stress Test, is the paid engagement: your own data, the same four dimensions, a full climate-health year, and an output built to be reported and assured. CAVS-S is how you find out whether the fuller version is worth the budget.
Further reading
If you want the evidence rather than the instrument, Climate change is a healthcare story sets out the case and the sources. The climate risk hiding in your access data works through how this shows up inside numbers an organisation already collects. Why the heat season is a healthcare operations problem takes the single most immediate version of it.
CAVS-S gives you a directional band, benchmarked against public disclosures, not your own numbers. It's a genuine signal, and it's the start of the conversation, not an audited verdict.
CAST, the Climate Access Stress Test, is the paid, fuller version: your own data, scored across the same four access dimensions, physical reach, supply-chain integrity, workforce availability, and demand continuity, against a full climate-health year. The output lifts straight into a BRSR or funder report and stands up under audit.
See how CAST works