ESG
Environmental Social and Governance : responsible business as a core value
Creating long-term value through responsible business
ESG - which stands for Environmental, Social and Governance – has gained increasing attention over recent years. Many investors are now choosing to invest only in companies that demonstrate commitment to managing ESG risks and opportunities, backed up by regular ESG performance reporting.
The core concept of ESG is that businesses are more likely to succeed and deliver robust returns if they create value for all their stakeholders– employees, customers, suppliers, and the wider community, rather than benefiting only the company owners.
Investment managers, financial institutions and activists are increasingly applying non-financial ESG factors as part of their analysis process to identify material risks within their portfolios and growth opportunities. This shift has seen a proliferation of global business networks that are developing standards that define ESG materiality such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
At SD Strategies, we’ve been helping clients develop and implement ESG frameworks and material risk management strategies that encompass environmental, social and governance factors, for over 20 years.
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Our Approach
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We support organisations to proactively integrate ESG risks and opportunities into business strategies and culture, to drive long-term value creation.
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Working with cross-disciplinary teams within organisations, we identify material issues across environmental, social and governance topics.
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Our suite of targeted ESG eLearning courses builds internal engagement and capability to deliver on ESG strategies and targets.
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We assess business operations against ESG criteria and investor priorities to ensure businesses identify key ESG issues, risks and opportunities
Innovative tools
Our range of proven tools will help you identify and integrate ESG principles into your business’s activities.
Two key tools are outlined here - for more information on our full range of tools please contact us.
ESG Gap Analysis
Our ESG gap analysis identifies how effectively your business is identifying material ESG issues, integrating ESG considerations into business strategies and implementing actions to deliver a purpose-driven ESG program.
If required, we can facilitate a highly interactive and engaging workshop with your team (online or face-to-face) to identify ESG priorities and gaps and help you build your ESG strategy or action plan collaboratively.
Online learning
Raising awareness about ESG helps build commitment, creates a shared understanding of environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities, and importantly outlines what needs to be done to manage it.
Our interactive online training courses cover topics necessary for your team to understand ESG, its relevance to your business and how to integrate your existing environmental, social and governance commitments into a comprehensive ESG framework.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change”
— Charles Darwin