Sustainability/ESG
Helping you with your compliance and assurance issues around Sustainability – Environmental, Social and Governance
Our Services
A Green House Gas (GHG) accounting exercise quantifies the climate impact of your organisation’s business activities. It is a necessary pre-requisite for contracting with many larger organisations, and involves calculating, recording, and reporting the emissions that occur throughout your value chain.
The GHG Protocol is the most widely used accounting standard and has four steps
- setting boundaries
- collecting data
- calculating your emissions
- verification and reporting
We can help you with this, set up management systems so the information is more easily captured in the future, and in addition help you to create an emissions reduction glidepath that looks to create value and reduce costs.
Educating employees and management on Environmental Social and Governance concepts and building internal capacity to manage ESG initiatives.
Our training includes Carbon Literacy and can also encompass creating and leading internal stretegy roadmap workshops. These will help to clarify and agree both the level of ambition for your oganisation and which ambitions might be communicated externally.
Our Sustainability health check will evaluate your current ESG practices and identify gaps or areas for improvement. We work with you to define what is material to your organisation so that it aligns with your strategy, commercial drivers and stakeholders. This is aligned with industry best practice such as Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) materiality.
Areas of focus:
- energy efficiency
- environmental impact
- social responsibility
- employee retention and turnover
- diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I).
A review of corporate governance structures will encompass
- transparency
- ethical decision-making
- alignment with sustainability principles.
Helping economic resilience in terms of financial stability, risk management, and long-term viability.
A sustainable company will balance economic success with environmental and social responsibility.
Assistance in preparing ESG reports including ESG/ Sustainability Impact Reports, data books and disclosures. Advice on ensuring compliance with all applicable or relevant standards, guidelines and supplier requests.
The number of reporting requirements grows longer each year, as does the number of organisations ‘caught’. For example:
The UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS)
The UK SRS are based on the global corporate reporting baseline of IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards – both
- IFRS S1: General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information, and
- IFRS S2: Climate-related Disclosures)
The UK government plans to endorse these standards by Quarter 1, 2025, for accounting periods commencing 1 January 2026.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Will use the UK's endorsed standards to introduce requirements for UK-listed companies to report sustainability-related information to investors. Companies outside the FCA's regulatory perimeter will also have disclosure requirements based on the endorsed standards.
Key disclosures include: IFRS S1 and S2 (TCFD); ESRS; SFDR; SDR; CDP; EcoVadis; GRI
Assessing potential risks and developing mitigation strategies for long-term sustainability.
- Identifying relevant ESG risks
Both internal and external relating to your industry or market sector – specifically regulations, but also trends and stakeholder expectations. Risks include:
- Environmental risks- carbon emissions requirements, climate change, pollution
- Social risks- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I), community engagement, employee practices
- Governance risks – executive compensation, Board governance
- Assessing materiality
Not everything relevant is material (significant enough to focus on and dedicate resources to). Materiality depends on factors such as impact on financial performance, reputation, and stakeholder interests. Risks can then be prioritised based on their potential consequences.
- Data collection and analysis
Gathering relevant data on ESG risks can be time-consuming – we have trialled the best available software and can recommend and help implement the best solution for you, allowing you to keep control over your data including financial data, operational metrics, and qualitative information. We can also help you analyse the data to assess the severity and likelihood of each risk.
- Risk mapping and scenario analysis
Creating risk maps to visualise the relationship between different risks and their potential impact and conducting scenario analysis to assess how regulatory changes and natural disasters, for instance, would affect your organisation.
- Risk mitigation strategies
Develop strategies to mitigate identified risks. These may include:
- Implementing policies and procedures
- Setting targets for reducing environmental impact
- Strengthening governance practices
- Engaging with stakeholders
- Investing in sustainable practices
- Integration into decision making
Embedding ESG risk considerations into your decision-making processes will ensure that ESG risks are considered alongside financial risks when evaluating investments, projects, and strategic initiatives.
- Reporting and transparency
Finally, we can help with communicating your ESG risk management efforts to stakeholders through ESG Impact reports, annual reports, and other channels.
Achieving a sustainable supply chain involves
- Accounting for the entire footprint of operations including:
- sustainability practices
- carbon emissions
- sourcing and production of materials and waste.
- Supplier surveys with tabulated results including:
- response rate
- key reduction activities being undertaken
- supplier pain points around measuring emissions and,
- assistance that can be given to suppliers.
- Outputs include:
- supplier code of conduct policies
- procurement pathways
- infographic summary of supply chain carbon survey results (if applicable) and commitments.
Undertaking an ESG Due Diligence is crucial for companies seeking finance or owners wishing to prepare for an exit. Adopting a rigorous approach, we assess existing sustainability practices and identify potential risks and opportunities. Our approach encompasses three-steps:
- assessing material ESG practices
- customer and competitor landscape to benchmark performance
- identifying risks and opportunity levers material to the business model and strategy
Undertaking an ESG Due Diligence will help detect issues which might cause delay and provides reassurance to potential investors attracted to your value-creation opportunity. The exercise enhances risk management and enables your focus to be on creating value against a backdrop of satisfying evolving ESG regulations and stakeholder expectations.
The transition to a more sustainable world requires significant capital reallocation and financing opportunities.
We work with our clients to set ESG policies and procedures for investment funds and developing business cases for sustainable investing opportunities aligned to your strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.
We work with private equity firms to define their ESG strategy, embed ESG risks and sustainability factors throughout the investment process from fund setup to Due Diligence to investment period and creating value on exit.
We work with financial markets and corporations to define transparent and clear rigorous processes to help allocate finance for sustainable initiatives. These includes creating a framework, criteria and terms to setup sustainability-linked loans.
Key ESG disclosures include: SFDR, SDR, TCFD, UNPRI, CDP, SASB, IDP, EDCI, UN SDGs, etc.
We will work with you to provide specialist climate advisory services to meet your regulatory needs (e.g. climate-related financial disclosures) and build climate resilience.
Climate change has a wide range of possible impacts on businesses - both direct (physical damage and operational disruptions, for instance) and indirect such as increased operating costs, regulatory changes, market shifts and liability risks.
As a result, regulations require larger businesses to disclose their climate risks, and investors look for this sort of analysis during the purchase or sale of businesses. Almost all businesses can benefit, from transportation and logistics and real estate through to tourism, healthcare and retail.
We can help you with these disclosures, building resilience against risks and formulating strategies to enhance business opportunities.
A Green House Gas (GHG) accounting exercise quantifies the climate impact of your organisation’s business activities. It is a necessary pre-requisite for contracting with many larger organisations, and involves calculating, recording, and reporting the emissions that occur throughout your value chain.
The GHG Protocol is the most widely used accounting standard and has four steps
- setting boundaries
- collecting data
- calculating your emissions
- verification and reporting
We can help you with this, set up management systems so the information is more easily captured in the future, and in addition help you to create an emissions reduction glidepath that looks to create value and reduce costs.
Educating employees and management on Environmental Social and Governance concepts and building internal capacity to manage ESG initiatives.
Our training includes Carbon Literacy and can also encompass creating and leading internal stretegy roadmap workshops. These will help to clarify and agree both the level of ambition for your oganisation and which ambitions might be communicated externally.
Our Sustainability health check will evaluate your current ESG practices and identify gaps or areas for improvement. We work with you to define what is material to your organisation so that it aligns with your strategy, commercial drivers and stakeholders. This is aligned with industry best practice such as Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) materiality.
Areas of focus:
- energy efficiency
- environmental impact
- social responsibility
- employee retention and turnover
- diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I).
A review of corporate governance structures will encompass
- transparency
- ethical decision-making
- alignment with sustainability principles.
Helping economic resilience in terms of financial stability, risk management, and long-term viability.
A sustainable company will balance economic success with environmental and social responsibility.
Assistance in preparing ESG reports including ESG/ Sustainability Impact Reports, data books and disclosures. Advice on ensuring compliance with all applicable or relevant standards, guidelines and supplier requests.
The number of reporting requirements grows longer each year, as does the number of organisations ‘caught’. For example:
The UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS)
The UK SRS are based on the global corporate reporting baseline of IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards – both
- IFRS S1: General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information, and
- IFRS S2: Climate-related Disclosures)
The UK government plans to endorse these standards by Quarter 1, 2025, for accounting periods commencing 1 January 2026.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Will use the UK's endorsed standards to introduce requirements for UK-listed companies to report sustainability-related information to investors. Companies outside the FCA's regulatory perimeter will also have disclosure requirements based on the endorsed standards.
Key disclosures include: IFRS S1 and S2 (TCFD); ESRS; SFDR; SDR; CDP; EcoVadis; GRI
Assessing potential risks and developing mitigation strategies for long-term sustainability.
- Identifying relevant ESG risks
Both internal and external relating to your industry or market sector – specifically regulations, but also trends and stakeholder expectations. Risks include:
- Environmental risks- carbon emissions requirements, climate change, pollution
- Social risks- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I), community engagement, employee practices
- Governance risks – executive compensation, Board governance
- Assessing materiality
Not everything relevant is material (significant enough to focus on and dedicate resources to). Materiality depends on factors such as impact on financial performance, reputation, and stakeholder interests. Risks can then be prioritised based on their potential consequences.
- Data collection and analysis
Gathering relevant data on ESG risks can be time-consuming – we have trialled the best available software and can recommend and help implement the best solution for you, allowing you to keep control over your data including financial data, operational metrics, and qualitative information. We can also help you analyse the data to assess the severity and likelihood of each risk.
- Risk mapping and scenario analysis
Creating risk maps to visualise the relationship between different risks and their potential impact and conducting scenario analysis to assess how regulatory changes and natural disasters, for instance, would affect your organisation.
- Risk mitigation strategies
Develop strategies to mitigate identified risks. These may include:
- Implementing policies and procedures
- Setting targets for reducing environmental impact
- Strengthening governance practices
- Engaging with stakeholders
- Investing in sustainable practices
- Integration into decision making
Embedding ESG risk considerations into your decision-making processes will ensure that ESG risks are considered alongside financial risks when evaluating investments, projects, and strategic initiatives.
- Reporting and transparency
Finally, we can help with communicating your ESG risk management efforts to stakeholders through ESG Impact reports, annual reports, and other channels.
Achieving a sustainable supply chain involves
- Accounting for the entire footprint of operations including:
- sustainability practices
- carbon emissions
- sourcing and production of materials and waste.
- Supplier surveys with tabulated results including:
- response rate
- key reduction activities being undertaken
- supplier pain points around measuring emissions and,
- assistance that can be given to suppliers.
- Outputs include:
- supplier code of conduct policies
- procurement pathways
- infographic summary of supply chain carbon survey results (if applicable) and commitments.
Undertaking an ESG Due Diligence is crucial for companies seeking finance or owners wishing to prepare for an exit. Adopting a rigorous approach, we assess existing sustainability practices and identify potential risks and opportunities. Our approach encompasses three-steps:
- assessing material ESG practices
- customer and competitor landscape to benchmark performance
- identifying risks and opportunity levers material to the business model and strategy
Undertaking an ESG Due Diligence will help detect issues which might cause delay and provides reassurance to potential investors attracted to your value-creation opportunity. The exercise enhances risk management and enables your focus to be on creating value against a backdrop of satisfying evolving ESG regulations and stakeholder expectations.
The transition to a more sustainable world requires significant capital reallocation and financing opportunities.
We work with our clients to set ESG policies and procedures for investment funds and developing business cases for sustainable investing opportunities aligned to your strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.
We work with private equity firms to define their ESG strategy, embed ESG risks and sustainability factors throughout the investment process from fund setup to Due Diligence to investment period and creating value on exit.
We work with financial markets and corporations to define transparent and clear rigorous processes to help allocate finance for sustainable initiatives. These includes creating a framework, criteria and terms to setup sustainability-linked loans.
Key ESG disclosures include: SFDR, SDR, TCFD, UNPRI, CDP, SASB, IDP, EDCI, UN SDGs, etc.
We will work with you to provide specialist climate advisory services to meet your regulatory needs (e.g. climate-related financial disclosures) and build climate resilience.
Climate change has a wide range of possible impacts on businesses - both direct (physical damage and operational disruptions, for instance) and indirect such as increased operating costs, regulatory changes, market shifts and liability risks.
As a result, regulations require larger businesses to disclose their climate risks, and investors look for this sort of analysis during the purchase or sale of businesses. Almost all businesses can benefit, from transportation and logistics and real estate through to tourism, healthcare and retail.
We can help you with these disclosures, building resilience against risks and formulating strategies to enhance business opportunities.
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