SUSTAINABILITY

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The challenges of sustainability today

Businesses must act now to meet the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. With our expertise and experience, we can help you overcome challenges and be part of the solution.

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Dealing with regulation

The regulatory burden is already complex: businesses must source hundreds or thousands of data points across disparate systems and suppliers (with inconsistent data quality) to meet regulations such as CSRD. And it will only become more complex with new legislation in the coming years.

But this can be a good thing for businesses. Regulation—both voluntary and mandatory—can help you build momentum and get buy-in from stakeholders. The key is to develop credible, resilient, effective transition plans that use regulation to their advantage.

Sustainability across your value chain

Becoming sustainable is one of the biggest transformations a business will undertake, requiring fundamental change across the value chain. But too often businesses fail to apply the same rigour to sustainability as they do to other change programmes. Governance—where it exists—is ineffective, leaders aren’t accountable, and projects are poorly resourced.

Small sustainability teams and side-of-desk efforts won’t cut it. Businesses must treat sustainability with the seriousness of a large transformation programme.

Engaging with stakeholders

To really shift the dial on Scope 3 emissions, businesses must influence their suppliers and customers to adopt more sustainable behaviour.

Our experience shows that shifting from simple buyer-supplier relationships to more collaborative models is the best way to do this. Implement confident and ambitious sustainability plans, and bring your suppliers, third parties and customers on board with you.

When it comes to shifting consumer behaviour towards more sustainable, circular solutions, there is often a lack of alignment with P&L owners on how and when to do this.

Changing culture

Sustainability must be embedded in your culture. Not an afterthought, not a side issue, but integral to your decision-making processes.

Without this, leaders tend to disagree on the scope of change required. And that makes it harder to get support from stakeholders across the business. By making sustainability part of your everyday culture, you can enable change.

Our Services

Our experts, with years of hands-on experience, can help you become a fully sustainable business that can confidently demonstrate progress, satisfy expectations and combat the climate emergency.

Strategy
and readiness

Alignment

Assess the material impacts of sustainability on your business. We’ll help you to develop a clear strategy that gets leaders fully engaged and aligned on the scale of changes required.

Transition plans and regulatory readiness

Create a realistic plan for your business transformation, in line with gold standards such as the Transition Plan Taskforce. Publish plans and metrics in line with CSRD, ISSB and other regulations.

Data transformation

Build a robust data management capability. This will maintain data quality and provide a clear audit trail to track and report progress.

Mobilising
the transformation

A new operating model

Make your business accountable to your sustainability goals. This requires effective governance and resource structures, clear roadmaps, and a strong internal MI and reporting function.

Energise and mobilise

Build excitement across your organisation. Engage your people and show progress towards your sustainability goals.

Integrate into processes

Include sustainability metrics in your ‘business as usual’ performance and finance processes.

Driving action
and impact

Develop a culture of sustainability.

Fold sustainability into your culture. Get your employees on board with engagement programmes, which will start to shift everyday behaviours. This will also help you to hire and retain good people.

Capability building

Create training programmes for your teams, form partnerships with other stakeholders, and bring in technologies that can support your sustainability journey.

Circular models

Work with partners, customers, and operational leaders to create new circular business models.

Stakeholder engagement

Collaborate with suppliers and other stakeholders across your value chain. Together, you can come up with more effective sustainability solutions.