Environmental, social and governance (ESG) support for businesses
Your aim is to ensure there’s increasing focus on ESG in your corporate strategy, but fulfilling the requirements and meeting standards can be complex. You are balancing the short-term cost of ESG compliance with long-term benefits of operational efficiency and increased business value.
We provide clarity and assurance, wherever you’re at in your ESG journey:
- Our ESG baseline assessment helps you understand your business’s current position and prioritise actions. If your focus has been on managing risks that have a material financial risk to the business and you’re currently undertaking very few ESG actions, this is a great place to start.
- If you have implemented initial policies and processes to address risks and identify opportunities, our advice on ESG strategic development can ensure your business is fit for the future.
- If you need help navigating the intricate landscape of climate action, our climate transition advisory services can help.
- Clear communication of your organisation’s strategy is essential, our guidance on regulatory and sustainability reporting can ensure you are compliant.
- If you have clear and defined processes that incorporate ESG and you are communicating your impact to stakeholders, you might now require tailored and risk-based assurance of your sustainability report.
- If mergers, acquisitions, investments, or partnerships are part of your plans, our ESG due diligence services provide evaluation of the risks in these events.
If you would like to discuss how we can help you incorporate ESG into your business strategy or if you need assistance with your ESG reporting, please contact us.
ESG baseline assessments
Our assessment shows you where your business is at currently as well as your priority actions as you develop your sustainability strategy.
We work hand-in-hand with your shareholders and management teams to design bespoke processes and systems. These will inform decision-making and strategic direction, and manage emerging ESG risks and opportunities.
Our assessments facilitate:
- Stakeholder engagement
- Materiality workshops and assessments
- Peer benchmarking
- Emission calculations (Scope 1, 2 and 3)
- Value chain risk assessments
Climate transition advisory
If you need help navigating the intricate landscape of climate action to reduce your environmental impact and build a resilient future, we can provide bespoke independent advice covering:
- Climate strategy and decarbonisation
- Climate risk management
- Climate benchmarking
- Emission calculations (Scope 1, 2 and 3)
- Supply chain climate assessments
- Gap analysis
- Climate reporting scenario modelling
We provide guidance and assurance services and help you effectively communicate climate reporting risk with your stakeholders. Increasingly, organisations are looking to third-party independent rating agencies to validate their climate action plans. We can support you with these applications.
ESG strategic development
With ESG embedded in your business strategy, you want to ensure your organisation is truly fit for the future. Our strategic development services involve working closely with your stakeholders to maximise value from ESG opportunities and minimise associated risks.
Improved decision-making and communication with key stakeholders help drive financial performance, improve operational efficiencies and strengthen your brand, while contributing to a more sustainable and equitable future.
We provide bespoke independent advice covering:
- ESG strategy
- ESG risk management
- ESG KPI identification
- Benchmarking
- Supply chain ESG assessments
- Gap analysis
Regulatory reporting services
The size of your operation determines which regulations you must be compliant with. We ensure you’re complying with the right ones and can support you in preparing your disclosures.
We can support the preparation of disclosures under the following regulations:
- Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR)
- Climate-related Disclosure Regulations (UK-adopted TCFD)
- Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
We adopt a data-driven approach which focuses on understanding the emissions in your business and ensuring that the data driving your reporting is robust and reliable.
We work closely with your team to develop a thorough understanding of the completeness and maturity of your data. We do this through a range of initial modules including:
- Materiality assessments and boundary scoping
- Data completeness assessments
- Assessments of key areas of estimation
- Bespoke reporting detailing methodologies
- Compliance gap analysis
Once we have established a thorough understanding of your emissions and data, our team provides you with a detailed report including our recommendations for improving the accuracy of your reporting.
International
For multijurisdictional groups of companies, we help you understand your reporting requirements both in the UK and overseas. As a member firm of Moore Global, we leverage the support of the network and provide you with regulatory expertise in the locations where you have operations.
Sustainability reporting services
Our ESG reporting team supports you in preparing your annual sustainability report under a range of standards and frameworks including:
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
- Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
- Taskforce for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
We provide you with a comprehensive sustainability report that gives your stakeholders a clear overview of your ESG data and activities. Having gained a thorough understanding of your business and its ESG risks, we work closely with the relevant teams in your business to collate and prepare your ESG data. Additionally, we advise you on preparing the narrative information.
How we work with you
Assurance services
Your stakeholders rely on the integrity of your ESG reporting. We provide assurance over your ESG reporting and can also help you enhance it by pinpointing areas of development and improvement. We provide assurance reports under ISAE 3000 and assurance for greenhouse gas reports under ISO 14001.
Our approach
Our risk-based approach means you get a robust assurance report, tailored to respond to the risks specific to your business and industry.
Our credentials
Our assurance process
ESG due diligence
As part of any mergers, acquisitions, investments, or partnerships it is important to evaluate ESG risk.
We provide a comprehensive, bespoke and systematic approach to give you confidence you are making the right decisions.
We provide independent advice covering:
- Materiality-based risk assessments
- Compliance gap analysis
- Stakeholder engagement assessments
- Emissions assessments
- People practices and diversity
- Governance structure analysis
