Strategy & Risk

Clients benefit from our deep and practical experience with the world’s most credible and respected standards, frameworks and guidelines. This not only helps organisations work through the maze of acronyms, it also helps apply them in a way that is effective, efficient and meaningful towards the achievement of the organisational objectives while contributing to global goals.

Materiality assessments

Materiality assessments play a central role in sustainability strategy and risk management. We help companies establish a robust process for determining the most material topics so that it informs strategy, guides risk and management integration, and in alignment with Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Standards, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Strategy development

We support clients with the development of an overarching ‘whole of organisation’ sustainability strategy that effectively seek to address negative impacts and apply innovation for sustainability and shared value principles to create greater positive impact. Sustainability strategies should not only manage business risk, they should also add commercial value and complement the organisation’s strategy.

Investor surveys and benchmarks

Through our practical experience working with the world’s most credible and recognised sustainability-focused investor surveys and benchmarks, we help our clients best respond and meet expectations. We work with clients to improve the quality of their sustainability performance measures and processes in a way that responds to investor-led surveys and meets evolving mandatory and voluntary public disclosure requirements in corporate governance and financial reporting.

Risk management

We help clients to integrate sustainability risk factors into their existing risk management frameworks and processes. This is critically important to giving company directors comfort over potential liabilities and shareholders comfort over their investments – helping meet increasing expectations of stock exchanges and company regulators in the management of environmental, social and governance risks.

Governance and policy

We help design, establishing and enhancing the internal sustainability governance and decision-making structures that allow for effective oversight of strategies and risks. It helps ensure alignment of the sustainability and responsible business practice agenda across the organisation through to boards and other governance bodies. We also support sustainability governance teams to develop and set their sustainability, responsible investment and global stewardship policies or develop their public position statements and internal policies relating to sensitive sectors and issues.

Report assurance

To improve the credibility and trust of their sustainability-related disclosures, we provide independent sustainability report assurance, demonstrating to stakeholders that the disclosures are a true and fair reflection of performance. We are specialists in principles-based forms of assurance which allows us to adapt the assurance process in line with our clients needs and level of sustainability reporting maturity and provide recommendations on areas of improvement. We are a licensed provider under AA1000 AccountAbility Principles and series of standards, apply the ASAE3000 standard for data assurance, and apply the GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards.

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