ESG and sustainability

How we can help:

Sustainability strategy and business transformation

• Translating trends in climate change, resource scarcity, and population growth into tangible opportunities
• Developing innovative strategies and operating models that position clients competitively
  
• Encouraging growth while driving societal benefit
  

Decarbonization and the energy transition

• Rethinking and reframing the future as we help navigate your energy transition
• Helping you become more climate resilient
  
• Building actionable transformation strategies using the latest technology and modelling to optimize your business on a portfolio basis
  
• Target setting, technology road mapping, and disclosure advisory support
  

ESG and sustainable finance

• Visualizing and mitigating the risks of an organization’s social and environmental investments, lending, and operational finances
• Integrating social and environmental criteria into loans and investment activities in a trustworthy, credible manner
  

Circular economy and supply chain

• Guiding clients through strategic decisions along the supply chain deep-industry insights
• Preserving and enhancing natural capital
  
• Optimizing resource yields and minimizing system risks by managing finite stocks and renewable flows
  

Disclosure/reporting

• Evaluating, reporting on, and communicating environmental and social governance
• Measuring ESG impact to help organizations develop and maintain transparency and accountability
  

Safe and reliable operations (EHS)

• Assessing current EHS performance
• Refocusing on an outcomes-driven approach
  
• Driving future effectiveness of EHS efforts through technology and analytics
  

Impact measurement and evaluation

• Providing clear and reliable information to measure progress against strategic targets
• Specialized consultants dedicated to impact evaluation, reporting, and communication
  
• Qualified auditors for the verification of qualitative and quantitative data
  

Environmental tax, grants, and incentives

• Proactively identify opportunities for climate-friendly decisions that benefit the bottom line through federal, provincial, and international tax, grants, and incentives

Our commitment:

We recognize change starts within. That’s why we’ve set ourselves some big targets, including achieving net-zero emissions throughout our firm by 2030.

We will also connect with others, empowering our people, and engage our broader ecosystem to create solutions that facilitate the transition to a low carbon economy.

The opportunity to create a more sustainable world is at our collective fingertips. We all are compelled to act.

Join the movement:

Along with a growing list of countries, Canada has pledged to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. This means reducing the greenhouse gases we produce alongside implementing both proven and emerging technologies to facilitate a rapid transition to low carbon energy systems, intelligent land use, and adoption of nature-based solutions.

The window is slowly closing. It’s likely our last chance to limit global warming to within 1.5°C by the end of the century and seize one of humanity’s greatest opportunities.

A full suite of transformative support is available through the Deloitte Centre for Climate Action. Net-zero emissions isn’t a choice. How you get there is.