Set your compass.

Chart your path to 2030 and beyond. Leverage our double-materiality process and align on your impacts, risks and opportunities. Based on a roadmap matched to your level of ambition, and stakeholder expectations, we inform target-setting and help set impactful objectives.

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Double-materiality assessment

Create alignment on the sustainability topics most relevant to address. A DMA assesses your company's impacts on people and the planet and how these topics affect your financial and enterprise value over the short, medium, and long term. Our four-stage process aligns with the EFRAG IG 1 Materiality Assessment (ESRS).

We’ll work closely with your core team to help them assess the data and align on priorities.

We’ll also leverage the process to challenge you on how to integrate sustainability deeper into your business model and way of working and how you can build stronger relationships along the value chain to address your impacts, risks and opportunities.

- A four-stage process to identify, prioritize, validate and strategize.
- A future-forward assessment to identify impacts, risks and opportunities.
- A ranking of ESRS-defined topics and your relevant sub-topics through deep-dive interviews with your subject-matter experts. EFRAG IG 1 Materiality Assessment
- An inclusive approach to engaging your teams in your value-chain impacts. (EFRAG IG 2: Value Chain)
- An assessment of your stakeholders' expectations, based on deep-dive interviews.
- An assessment how the materiality findings impact your business strategy and your outreach processes.
- You want to use your materiality assessment to lay the groundwork for your sustainability plan.
- You want a comparable approach that you can integrate into your company’s strategy cycle and replicate it from one strategy period to the next.
- You seek the long view in your sustainability plan.
- You want to create alignment on your sustainability impacts, risks and opportunities.

Future-forward risks and opportunities

A strategy begins with the long view -- 10-15 years and beyond. This future-forward analysis is a strategic tool to involve your leadership team in the complexity of a fast-evolving sustainability agenda.

The process is based on a big-picture review of societal trends that are relevant to your industry.

In one-on-one interviews, your leadership team rank risks and opportunities posed by these societal factors, and explore their relevance to your business strategy.

The outcome? A set of recommendations to your business strategy on what needs to change to meet your future.

- This is an integrated part of our four-stage strategy process or can be part of your yearly strategy review.
- A 360-degree, desktop overview of societal change to 2035 in ways that are relevant to your industry and markets. Societal shift spans impacts on people, the planet, access to resources, technology innovation, and the economy.
- One-on-one discussions with your leadership team to assess and rank strategic risks and opportunities related to the assessment.
- Recommendations on how to address societal change in your business model and strategy aligned with ESRS 2 - General Disclosures, Disclosure Requirements -- SBM-3 - Material impacts, risks and opportunities and their interaction with strategy and business model.
- You are tasked to inform your business strategy process on the transition to a low-carbon, more inclusive society.
- You want to engage your leadership team in defining sustainability impacts, risks and opportunities.
- You take the long view in defining strategic risks and opportunities.

Set your level of ambition

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What position should your business take to address your material topics?

Based on the outcomes of your materiality assessment, we'll explore the complexity of reaching the level of ambition you’re aiming for, for each material topic. This informs your target setting, your roadmap, reporting and communications plan.

- A topic-by-topic assessment of what's required address your impacts and deliver value for your company.
- The considerations that inform your ambition level.
- A narrative on the case for action and how your ambition translates to activities.
- You want to translate the outcomes of your materiality assessment into recommendations for strategy work
- You wish to communicate what is required to address impacts, meet expectations, generate value and be a leader in your strategy work.

Chart your roadmap

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If you need to comply to CSRD, it’s time to chart a climate transition plan to de-carbonize your business model.

But don’t stop with climate action, we’ll help you apply the same thinking for whole your sustainability plan.

In a series of workshops with your expert teams, we will support you in setting targets and initiatives that tackle risks, opportunities and impacts at your ambition level and that will guide you in the transition to net zero.

Charting your roadmap is also an integral part of your plan for integration.

Workshops with members of your core team to:
- Align on long and short-term goals for your material topics that meet your ambition.
- Define core initiatives that leverage your opportunities and mitigate risks, engage your value chain, and reflect your ambition. Prioritize them based on their degree of impact and complexity.
- Set timeline for implementing initiatives and defining milestones to track progress.
- Allocate resources that include financial, human, technological, and collaborative.
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure progress and performance against strategic goals.
- Set feedback mechanisms to gather feedback and make adjustments.
- Review and revise the strategic roadmap and make revisions as needed to stay on track.
Disclosures for ESRS E1, on your Climate Transition Plan and how your company intends to contribute to limiting global warming to 1.5°C.
- You have completed a double-materiality assessment and the data is there to define targets and understand where you stand today.
- You are tasked to set a transition plan for climate action and mitigation as per ESRS E1 and are setting a science-based target.

Benchmark practices of customers and competitors

An assessment of your customers and industry peers that considers their strategy, targets, and performance. This analysis provides insights into coming expectations on your company and the best practices in your industry.

Our assessment will mirror the outcome of your materiality assessment and is based on the Global Reporting Initiative's disclosure criteria for governance and strategy.

- A benchmark of 8-12 customers and peers of your choice and ranking of performance.
- The assessment is based on ESRS and GRI criteria.
- Examples of inspirational targets and best practice examples of collaboration, initiatives and innovation.
- An assessment of changing expectations along their value chains.
- Your company aims to better understand how customer strategies will change expectations on you.
- You are in the processes of designing targets, and strategies.
- You aim to find the right partners for collaboration.

Uniting impact, integration and inspiration to deliver change.

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