Environmental, social and governance services

Build capability and engage stakeholders around impact and environmental, social and governance (ESG) innovations

The expansion and evolution of social and environmental performance standards requires business leaders to manage reporting complexity and cost, while ensuring credible representation of organisational impact.

Overview

Understanding and acting on environmental, social and governance priorities has become a fundamental component of business performance and is at the centre of business transformations around the world. With roots in the impact economy, we support businesses to get a head start on material sustainability risks, tech-enabling ESG reporting, and selecting standards and frameworks for reporting and developing institutional-grade ESG metrics.

We support our clients to build capacity and capabilities across the ESG agenda, bringing leading insights from our participation in multi-lateral forums and communities of practice where today’s ESG, sustainable finance, impact, regulatory and prudential frameworks are developed. Our practitioners understand the application and nuances of reporting standards from hands-on involvement and application of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SASB, TCFD and TNFD frameworks, classification taxonomies, and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), among others.

Our development of Placelink® has drawn from our industry-leading experience in social and environmental performance – and brings a fresh and more rigorous take on common-place ESG reporting tools available today. We support our clients in technology enablement of material sustainability risks and issues, to ensure continuity of reporting from on-the-ground asset impacts, through to company disclosures.

How we support our clients

Social licence and ESG strategy

Building social licence to operate and establishing ESG credibility will become more difficult as boards, stakeholders, regulators and customers increase scrutiny on ESG claims, requiring a robust strategy that can link corporate initiatives with real assets and real-world outcomes.

Selecting and reporting on ESG standards and frameworks

Understand the landscape of reporting frameworks and emerging standards, including complexity and cost of implementation, and build capacity to report consistently against commitments while managing adaptively in the need for dynamic responses to a changing environment.

Monitoring, evaluation and reporting

Designing and implementing a monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting framework that helps you manage your project adaptively to achieve the vision of change, modify course as needed, capture and share lessons learned, and ensure accountability.

Designing governance frameworks

Developing a governance framework that is fit for purpose, enables timely decisions, provides accountability and clarity for stakeholders, and streamlines implementation.

Adaptive leadership

Develop your adaptive leadership skills and the capacity of your organisation to lead change, including building a clear understanding of roles.