a strong foundation for sustainability and ESG
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Advancing Sustainability
ESG as a Strategic Imperative
Even firms with long-standing track records of successfully integrating sustainability and ESG principles into their organisations are finding it more difficult than ever to stay ahead of dynamic and constantly-evolving ESG expectations.
Organisations that resisted establishing a formalised ESG policy and framework are now bowing to pressure from their investors, consumers, employees, boards and regulators, and now find themselves scrambling to catch up. Sustainability and ESG have gone from being a functional requirement to a commercial imperative.
Assess
Identify what is important and how to begin your journey
Strategise
Develop a roadmap based on your priority and focus
Integrate
Integrate the roadmap into your organisation
Communicate
Package your strategy and results into a compelling narrative for communication
Assess
Begin your sustainability or ESG journey by scrutinising how your organisation stands up against competitors, what is material to your investors, consumers and employees and what the upcoming regulatory requirements entail.
This will help align your corporate values with your investment goals and ensure buy-in from your key decision makers and board. Our services include:
- Conducting a gap analysis
- Recognising and capturing the sustainability or ESG value already unlocked within your organisation.
- Undertaking a materiality assessment
- Providing insight into investor and consumer expectations
Strategise
Develop a roadmap based on your priority and focus
Your strategy and roadmap should be integrated into the overall corporate strategy. This integrated sustainability and ESG strategy should focus on what is material and impactful for your overall business objective, whether it is to attract new capital, customers or employees. In developing your strategy and roadmap, the alignment with the leadership team and board is critical. Our process include:
- Determining strategic priorities based on what is material to your organisation and its stakeholders
- Setting an attainable ambition level that can be built upon with specific targets within priority areas
- Building an integrated strategic roadmap with initiatives to deliver the ambition
- Developing the overall approach, governance model and policies.
Integrate
Integrate the roadmap into your organisation
Investors and regulators around the world are increasingly requiring organisations to adopt a strategy for sustainability and ESG. There are many standards and frameworks that can be used. We help identify what suits your organisational needs and focus, with the aim of integrating sustainability and ESG into:
- Board / management governance model
- Corporate strategy and financial planning
- Enterprise risk management
- Developing key metrics and targets that drive impact
Communicate
Communicate with your stakeholders
The focus on sustainability and ESG by investors and customers has escalated. As the landscape of reporting is quite complex, communicating your narrative effectively is crucial. We can help you build an effective and compelling story to address your stakeholders. To this end we:
- Help you narrate based on your target audience.
- Develop ESG investor and customer presentations
- Help create employee engagement campaigns
“91% of business models will increasingly incorporate circular economy dimensions over the next five years.”
Ernst & Young Global and Malaysia C-Suite Surveys 2021