Your sustainability or ESG policy is an increasingly important factor for employees and customers in whether to choose your business. Financial institutions and regulatory authorities are also applying ever stricter sustainability criteria, while the CSRD legislation entails extra reporting obligations. So how do you meet all these sustainability requirements? We can support you with ESG and sustainability advice that reflects the ESG maturity and ambition of your business.
We can give your business systematic support based on the ESG Journey Framework. This is a helpful model that we use to define your sustainability goals, implement the right actions and, ultimately, provide clear CSRD-compliant reporting. All ESG (environmental, social and governance) aspects are covered.
In short, sustainability and corporate social responsibility are growing in importance for your company’s reputation and ability to remain future-proof.
Whether you are working on sustainability because you’re convinced of its importance or simply to comply with the reporting obligation, our framework forms the right basis and our team will give you tailor-made advice.
Guided by the relevant reporting standards (CSRD, ESRS, the EU Taxonomy, VSME, etc.), we work step by step towards a compliant sustainability report. For example, we carry out your double materiality analysis and help you to gather the right data. It’s up to you which aspects you want to outsource to us. We will adapt our approach as required and ensure knowledge transfer to your team.
We evaluate your sustainability initiatives, processes and reporting activities with a scan. This also tells us how mature your business already is in terms of ESG and sustainability.
We evaluate your business strategy and model and work with you to fine-tune it with ESG and sustainability in mind. We also help you explain to your stakeholders how ESG principles contribute to your corporate values and objectives, to promote insight, awareness and engagement.
We set up an ESG governance programme and roadmap, define ESG objectives and explain how you can monitor progress.
We make an ESG analysis part of the due diligence process that precedes an acquisition or capital transaction, by means of a quick scan or a more extensive analysis of your business or the target business.
We prepare you for the assurance audit of your sustainability report (non-financial information), identifying opportunities for improvement using a gap analysis.
If you want to make some significant progress right away, choose CSO-as-a-Service. A chief sustainability officer from Grant Thornton will set out the guidelines for ESG policy in your business. You can work together to develop ESG initiatives and set up the sustainability and ESG programme.
