Sustainability Purpose & Strategy

Purpose

Support in building the organization’s understanding around sustainability and defining its corporate purpose, mission, and vision, while aligning them to its stakeholders’ expectations/requirements (such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals).  

Strategy development

Technical advice to construct the organization’s strategic objectives and identify its material issues and align them to sustainability frameworks and best practices.

Support to materialize the objectives into policies, action plans, initiatives, and actions, with particular focus on the following Sustainability areas:

• Energy & Carbon efficiency – Providing technical advice to construct strategic objectives and identify material issues and align them to sustainability frameworks and best practices.
• Social Impact – Support your organization to materialize objectives into particular policies, action plans, initiatives, and actions, with a particular focus on the areas of Energy & Carbon efficiency and Social Impact.

Transformation

• Develop sustainable operating models, cost and finance transformations.

Sustainability Governance

Board Competence

Support in the design and establishment of sustainability governance structures, as well as competence and performance evaluation tools (including KPIs and data dashboards).  

Executive remuneration

Working with you to define the “business case” to integrate sustainability into the executive remuneration scheme and the design of incentive structures and targets.

Internal Audit Support

Deliver strategic support to the Internal Audit function to gauge the effectiveness of internal controls and measures to manage sustainability risks and opportunities. 

Managing Sustainability Risk

Integration of sustainability into the risk management function

Support in the identification and prioritization of sustainability risks and opportunities, assessment of their impact on the organization and its stakeholders, as well as evaluation of potential synergies between sustainable R&O and the ERM function.  

Risk management solutions

Climate risk and resilience

• Technical advice on climate change and wargame climate scenario analysis and interpretation.
• Support in the identification of climate risks and opportunities for decarbonizing portfolios.
  
  

Health, Safety, and Environment

• Technical advice on HSE risks identification and controls review.
• HSE due diligence and audit processes, analytics and automation, as well as “Intelligent risk management”.

Diversity & Inclusion

• Advice on diversity and inclusion performance assessment and risk evaluation, as well as on Gender pay reporting.   

Modern Slavery and Worker Welfare

• Benchmark and gap analysis against legislative requirements and best practices.
• Support in oversight audit function and program development.
• Disclosure review services (including legal review).

Sustainable Supply Chain

Risk management

• Technical advice on risk evaluation, assessment and prioritization, and development of risk management procedures and controls.
• Supplier audit, Conflict Minerals advisory, and assurance services.
• Technical support to design Blockchain-enabled solutions for supply chain risk management.
• Advisory on responsible sourcing and traceability approaches.

In-Country Value (ICV) and Localization Practices

• Support in ICV Certification and audit services on ICV programs and certifiers. 

Green Finance

ESG investment review and assurance

• Support you in reviewing your investment procedures (including strategy, screening, impact monitoring) and reporting practices.
• Third-party assurance services against industry and/or reporting standards (including ESG performance and disclosure standards).
• ESG Due Diligence Services.

Green Bonds, Loans and Social Funds

• Third-party assurance services on issuance documents and Statements of Proceeds / Allocation Reports. 

Sustainability Measurement, Reporting, and Assurance

KPI development, data collection, and digitalization

• Support in developing, selecting, and prioritizing KPIs, and designing data measurement, collection, review, and validation procedures.
• Design of automated data collection, processing, and reporting tools, and helping you design and enhance data controls.

Impact measurement and valuation

• Assistance in the development of impact KPIs and the design of impact measurement frameworks.
   

Reporting services

• Advice on mandatory reporting compliance (as per legislative or listing requirements) and gap analysis of reporting against voluntary reporting schemes (such as TCFD or GRI).
• Support in identifying your material issues in terms of sustainability (including stakeholder materiality reviews); and support in your structuring and developing sustainability reports and/or disclosures around them.
• Assistance to improve your performance against Sustainability Rating agencies and/or indexes (such as CDP, DJSI, FTSE4Good, or SRI Analysis).
• Benchmark analysis services of your reporting practices against peer and industry best practices.
• Support you in your IPO Readiness exercises.
  
  

Non-financial assurance

• Third-party assurance services under ISAE 3000 framework (for sustainability KPIs, impact KPIs, disclosures, and stand-alone reports).
• Third-party assurance services against industry and sustainability reporting standards (such as claims of compliance under the Global Reporting Initiative ‘GRI’).