Environmental, Social & Governance
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) has been brewing for a while, and is hitting the mainstream now, driven by united demand from employees, investors and customers.
ESG analysis has become an increasingly important part of the investment process. For investment professionals, a key motivation in the practice of considering ESG issues as part of their financial analysis is to gain a fuller understanding of the companies in which they invest.
ESG refers to a set of non-financial factors used to measure a company’s impact on its employees, customers, and the community.
Environmental
- Emergency preparedness
- Improving resource efficiency
- Managing climate related risks and opportunities
- Recycling
- Reducing GHG emissions
Social
- Customer satisfaction
- Data and privacy
- Health and safety
- Human rights
- Working conditions
Governance
- Auditing
- Board diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Compliance
- Executive pay
- Preventing bribery and corruption
WHAT WE DO
- Gap analysis of your current Integrated Reports to determine the relationship between financial and non-financial factors.
- Engage with stakeholders to determine which information is material to your company’s environmental, social, and governance reporting.
- Build a multidisciplinary ESG team and foster collaboration between departments.
- Gather operational data such as risk observations, near misses, and environmental measurements.
- Engage frontline employees in your data collection efforts.
- Align your ESG reporting to global and regulatory frameworks.
What you get
- Materiality assessment and corporate benchmarking.
- A business case for better ESG information and providing your organisation with some fundamentals to ensure that ESG information can be relied upon for decision-making by both internal and external stakeholders.
- Integrating ESG objectives into your strategic planning and resource allocation.
- Cybersecurity and cyber resilience as a measure of ESG risk.
- Implementing appropriate board oversight of material ESG.
- Integrated Reporting and regular cadence of timely disclosure in accordance with recognised standards, CDP, CDSB, GRI, IIRC, and SASB.
- Streamlined regulatory compliance.
- Reliability and operational cost reduction.
- Better shareholder and investor returns.
- Improved employee satisfaction and customer loyalty.
- Advice on your choice of technology and software.
- Corporate Governance and Compliance.
- In short, a trusted organisation.
Data analytics – harnessing the potential of big data and analytics opens up a world of opportunity to increase growth and profitability, to lower costs and improve efficiencies, to drive digital transformation, and to support risk and regulatory compliance priorities.
Financial modelling – bringing data to life in the form of captivating reports, analysis, and insights, to help your organisation thrive.