Sustainability and ESG Consulting and Advice
Sustainability guides a company’s core, overall business practices, while environmental, social and governance – ESG – is a framework for measuring how a company is performing.
While there are many overlaps between the two, there are specific business issues, and ways of assessing and reporting on these, that sit firmly under either sustainability or ESG.
We’re here to help you identify the relevant sustainability and ESG risks, impacts and opportunities for your business and develop practical systems that address these. These systems and processes include the requirements set by regulation, multilateral development banks and soft law/voluntary frameworks.
Materiality and risk reviews
Our materiality and risk reviews are tailored to your business needs and assets. From multinationals with operations in many jurisdictions to SMEs with single sites, we work with companies of all sizes on:
- Double materiality assessments (DMAs) aligned to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
- Risk reviews and assessments: for example, contaminated land or biodiversity reviews; an external stakeholder or social license to operate assessments; OHS, and physical and transitional climate and regulatory compliance risk reviews
- Risk and opportunity reviews to develop governance and organisational capacity extending to your contractors and suppliers
- Environmental and social impact assessments (ESIAs), including scoping and screening to identify material risks and inform work planning
- Supply chain and contractor reviews and audits
Strategy, policy and governance
First, you need to understand your sustainability goals; then you can establish implementation mechanisms. We identify your priorities and needs using a combination of approaches that include:
- Benchmarking, including a review of your peers, regulation, soft law/voluntary frameworks, multilateral development banks policies (including International Finance Corporation, World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment, Asian Development Bank, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank)
- Materiality and risk reviews
- Road maps and implementing scenarios where a practical, phased approach may be the best option
- Evaluation of your organisation, contractors and supply chain to assess the capabilities of implementation change and transformation
Due diligence and sustainable supply chains
We’re also here to support the integration of sustainability into your transactions, procurement and operations to comply with regulatory requirements, improve access to capital and enhance stakeholder and brand acceptance. Working with your relevant teams, we can:
- Assess your environmental and human rights risk and impacts, and existing governance effectiveness
- Develop governance and processes to support the identification, prevention and mitigation of impacts, as well as grievance resolution and remedy mechanism
- Work with your contractors and suppliers to build their capacity and improve performance and meaningful reporting
Reporting services
Reporting your sustainability performance and data is as important as the gathering process. We will guide you through the regulation and soft law/voluntary frameworks involved in:
- Double materiality assessments (DMAs) in accordance with the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)
- Addressing impacts, risks and opportunities identified during the DMA process
- Report writing aligned to European indices and regulation, working with established partners
- Aligning with the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) on human rights
- Complying, where applicable, with EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)
- Communication strategy development to reach your internal and external stakeholders to bring transparency to your sustainability performance
