“I call on every city, company
and financial institution
to adopt concrete roadmaps
with clear intermediary milestones
to get to carbon neutrality
by 2050”
António Guterres, Secretary-General United Nations
January 28, 2021
Score: 0 | ESG _ READY TO START
New Sustainability compliances are on the table
It feels it’s time to learn about it
Looking for some basic information
Actions & Tools:
This portal is designed to capture and display the ESG ground from where to start the Journey. Should you feel having a look here, you can find some basic steps that may help you develop & implement an ESG perspective at your organization, along with some questions to ask as part of the process.
Yet, compliances, norms, and regulations may be challenging at the beginning. As each company is unique, so too will each ESG strategy action plan. Be sure, they may differ in discrete ways. The end goal, however, is universal: to manage resources in a way that maximizes values for all the stakeholders, planet included.
And now that you have a plan, now it’s time to add the people.
To step ahead, you may consider adding:
Browsing the web, seek for a gest-started guide
Score 1 – 3 | ESG _ ACTIVE AND DRIVEN
Understands the rules
Meet legal & policy requirements
Monitors emerging issues
Actions & Tools:
The ESG pathway provides opportunities and risk prevention/mitigation effective safeguards. Valuable goals for any forward-looking organization. Yet, compliances, norms and regulations may be challenging at the beginning.As each company is unique, so too will each ESG strategy action-plan. Be sure, it may differ in discrete ways. The end goal, however, is universal: to manage resources in a way that maximizes values for all the stakeholders, planet included. Buy-in will have one of the biggest impacts on the success of the implementation of the sustainability business plan. ESG Executive coaching may certainly speed up the pace and keep people motivated.
- Screening Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Shadow Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)
- Non-financial reporting (EU Directive)
To step ahead, you may consider adding:
Workshop, ESG Coaching
Score: 4 – 7 | ESG _ INFORMED AND PROACTIVE
Protect & increase market share
Enhance brand value
Ethically motivated
Actions, Policies & Tools:
Call all the parts on board
Allocate dedicated resources, steering committee appointed, the focus now is on turning raw collected data on the materiality chosen for further improving. And here is where the whole organization starts being seeing in her strong ESG commitment.
Investors have their scrutiny done evaluating their choices. In fact, ESG continue to rise on investor agendas for good reasons. Poor ESG practices, or ignoring ESG issues, pose environmental, legal and reputation risks. Being short or late on this strategy can damage any company and cause lasting impacts on the “bottom line”.
Plan further improvements and prepare on new actionable insights.
- Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)
To enhance the pace, you may consider adding:
Workshop, ESG Coaching
Score: 8 – 10 | ESG _ DEDICATED AND FORWARD-LOOKING
Increase productivity & boost innovation
Reduce cost & mitigate risk
Ties ESG indicators with new best practices
Actions, Policies & Tools:
This is the advanced maturity stage. To fully engage and profit from this stage, the business turns to tools and platforms that combine and automatically analyze the data from all the parts monitored and surveilled along with the ESG project. This is where innovation and R&D start having a different voice. The buy-in on the project extends and the Company enjoys a more diffuse level of commitment and participation thanks to the learning and training opportunities and overall improved organizational wellbeing.
Visibility increases and the commitment proves to be valuable on many fields. As numerous researches have now documented, (i.e., Deutsche Bank Group, Climate Change Advisors Report 2017), firms with strong ESG performance tend to have a more stable and loyal investor base, lower cost of capital, and better access to financing
- Comparative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Road map & strategy development
- Circular Economy context
- Verifies Supplier engagement
- Value Chain, Carbon/ Water/ Soil Accounting & Reporting
- Portfolio Sustainability Assessment (PSA)
- Science-Based Targets (SBT)
To enhance the pace, you may consider adding:
Lighthouse project / ESG Coaching / Advisory Services)
Score: 11+ | ESG _ LEADING THE CHANGE
Become a leader in the sector
Wears far looking-glasses to better shape the future
Design for Environment today for future generations
Fully integrates value creation and social responsibility
Congratulations! You lead Sustainable growth at its best. You lead the way driving social impact, protecting our planet, empowering people, promoting responsible practices.
You may consider contribute by:
Actions, Policies & Tools:
- Sets System integration into business processes and be a Case Study
- Actively promotes organizational change within the business environment and institutions
- Upgrades its standards to induce each and every stakeholder to commit
- Develops new business model
Training & Support, testimony the process.