Sustainability & ESG
Leverage technology to achieve Net-Zero.
Environmental Social Governance (ESG) is not only an issue for 80% of CEOs (IBM IBV 2022), but also for three out of four consumers, who favor sustainable products when buying.
A solid ESG plan results in an increase in sales for companies: 86% of companies expect growth in the coming years due to an increased ESG focus site sourcce. Consequently, they are also investing more in sustainability measures: in 2020 alone, $120 billion in sustainability-linked loans flowed to companies. Leverage technology to achieve Net-Zero.
Our Services
Translating sustainability into the corporate ecosystem: Identify key sustainability risks and opportunities, analyze sustainability maturity, develop strategies, and build new sustainable business models.
Manifest sustainability in corporate management: Operationalize sustainability strategies or sustainable business strategies by consistently defining goals and target paths, as well as KPIs and measures.
Develop a sustainability performance management: Implement proven solutions for performance and impact measurement, control and internal reporting.
Rethink your supply chain: Expand processes along the entire value chain to include sustainability aspects and anchor them holistically in functional areas such as purchasing, production or controlling.
Ensure organizational anchoring: Define suitable organizational structures and establish clear roles and responsibilities.
Sustainable Change Management: Integrate key sustainability aspects into corporate values and culture.
Leverage Technology to support sustainability management: Integrate requirements into existing IT landscape, select and implement appropriate IT tools.
Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFDR): create regulatory mandatory (e.g. EU taxonomy) or also voluntary external sustainability reporting.
Industries
Financial Markets
Our services enable capital market participants to stay ahead of the "benchmark". We have expertise in preparing ESG profile commentaries as part of these services, which include an assessment of the as-is aspects of ESG integration in asset management. We help evaluate ESG performance, including an assessment of portfolio performance against a variety of parameters and perceptions. In addition, we enable our clients in this segment to ensure stability and resilience in turbulent times by assessing the maturity and readiness of asset portfolios to comply with current and future regulatory mandates and standards.
Selection Criteria: ESG screening, standards-based screening, ESG exclusions.
Management practices: Assessment, implementation, communication
Thematic indexing: responsible investing, impact investing.
Corporate
As part of our corporate ESG services, we use as-is assessments and gap analysis to provide our clients with a "sustainable" competitive advantage. Using ESG indicators, we assess critical business needs, sector-specific issues, business sustainability impacts, and stakeholder preferences. We also identify gaps in disclosure, processes, and governance structures by conducting a performance analysis.
Materiality assessment: identifying and evaluating key issues and metrics, taking into account environmental, economic and social aspects.
Performance assessment: analyzing and tracking performance for pre-determined KPIs.
Maturity analysis: identify performance gaps, assess maturity of sustainability performance
Peer benchmarking: analyze and understand sustainability management practices among peers.
Critical analysis: identify weaknesses, recommend improvements, and ensure readiness for effective reporting and disclosure in line with internationally recognized frameworks
ESG Data Platforms
We serve global ESG data platforms and rating agencies, for which we are a leading provider of data aggregation and analysis services. As part of our data aggregation services, we compile, normalize and analyze ESG data for equities and bonds against more than 1,000 indicators. We also provide comprehensive ESG controversial research. Cleaning, transforming and analyzing data to draw concrete conclusions that facilitate informed decision-making for all stakeholders are part of our data analysis services.
Self-published company-level data: ESG reports and disclosures, as well as website and financial reports.
Publicly available data: NGOs, associations, third-party reports, and websites
Research on controversies: social media, news, online publications
Research findings: Uncover actionable insights by combining public disclosures with real-world information.
Benchmark against other companies: Comparative study of ESG trends in other industries with indicators that meet sector and industry needs.
Gap analysis: improve business efficiency by assessing the difference between the best possible outcome and the actual outcome