ESG Services
The 9 stages of the SESG Consulting service
- Carbon Footprint Assessment
- Gap Analysis
- Benchmarking
- Materiality Assessment
- Sustainability Indicators
- Sustainability Strategies & Reporting
- Low Carbon Design
- Sustainability Actions Plan
- Sustainability Training
Sustainability and ESG Consulting
What is ESG?
In recent years, it has become increasingly important that companies pay attention to the incorporation of ESG criteria and its associated principles of sustainability into their business operations. Broadly speaking, the scope of ESG includes Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance principles which are intended to create better accountability among members of the business community towards the impacts that their business activities have on the natural environment and the wider communities that they operate within. Adherence to these criteria requires that businesses adopt appropriate corporate practices which pay due regard to each of the elements of ESG.
The adoption, for instance, of practices such as the monitoring of carbon emissions, water usage, waste production, recycling rates and the companies impact on biodiversity would be areas which satisfy the environmental criteria. Measuring accessibility and affordability of goods and services, workplace diversity, health and safety, and data security, would fall under the company’s social obligations. Creating robust organisational structures, well defined remuneration systems, greater corporate transparency, better business ethics, as well as increased stakeholder involvement, would form part of the corporate governance criterion.
Each of these criteria taken both independently and together form the basis of the principle of sustainability, which essentially means ensuring that corporate resources and activities are not excessive, always efficient, and never exercised at the cost of the environment or human health, safety, and integrity.
Why it’s Important?
When companies overlook their responsibilities to a wider net of stakeholders, they open themselves up to taking risks which could cause damage to their business, not to mention to the natural environment and the communities around them. Additionally, mounting awareness and pressure from consumers and public interest groups combined with drastically shifting sentiments within the investing public have created a snowballing trend over the past decade that has seen ESG focused businesses receiving much higher valuations in global trade markets.
Professionals are far more likely to to do business with a company that has a firm ESG corporate strategy in place and investor attention is becoming increasingly drawn towards ESG aligned business propositions. Drawing up a solid ESG strategy is therefore a huge imperative for businesses who wish to grow and thrive in today’s evolving commercial ecosystem, making it a risk element that requires detailed monitoring and dynamic responsiveness to ensure that shareholder value is both safeguarded and enhanced.
Our Unique ESG Proposition:
Built Environment and Natural Environment SESG Planning and Consultancy
27 Advisory, in partnership VERITAS Design Group, offers a unique SESG (Sustainability and ESG) consulting service for both the built environment and natural environment sectors that equips businesses with the knowledge, tools and resources necessary to ensure optimised ESG Risk Management. Our 9 stage SESG programme, delivered through the combined expertise of financial economists, management consultants, creative architects, and climate engineers, will outline a custom designed SESG action plan for systematically assessing, managing, and monitoring risks of potential material impact to the strategic and financial decisions of the company.
With the benefit of our SESG consultancy services, our clients are empowered to maximise shareholder value while keeping a firm footing over their ESG commitments and sustainability targets, opening them up to new and exciting opportunities within the growing ESG marketplace and bringing a quality to their projects that is truly in a class of its own.
Our Services
Built Environment SESG services
in collaboration with VERITAS Design Group
With our expertise in the field of built environment projects, we deliver planning and project management frameworks for clients that incorporate sustainability elements into the design and construction of major development initiatives. Utilizing the best innovative technology and design solutions currently available, our services focus on enhancing key areas such as energy efficiency, water efficiency, and indoor environmental quality, to maximise your projects sustainability and efficiency markers. Our solutions are tailor made to fit your unique business needs and will reduce material losses, improve sustainability metrics, and deliver top tier project outcomes for clients in the built environment sector.
Natural Capital SESG Services
in collaborations with IRGA
We offer a comprehensive assessment and strategic solutions development programme for clients with business interests in natural capital projects.
Our advisory team will conduct a detailed appraisal of your projects ESG risks and opportunities, highlighting appropriate technical expertise and 4IR based technology solutions that can be leveraged to meet sustainability markers while improving efficiency and productivity on agronomic business operations.
Through well researched analytical approaches that include gap analysis, benchmarking, and materiality assessments, we will construct a detailed sustainability action plan that will ensure that your business undertaking attracts the highest material returns with minimal exposure to risk.
The 9 Stage Program
Our 9-stage program will guide your business towards a comprehensive assessment of its ESG related risks, strengths, and opportunities. We offer a series of services ranging from an initial carbon footprint assessment to a materiality assessment to the development of appropriate sustainability strategies which will guide your company towards better ESG management practices. The SESG program will ultimately equip your business with a Sustainability Action Plan that your company can leverage to navigate its ESG related challenges and achieve unique competitive advantages within the ESG market sector.
The 9 stage ESG services that we offer our clients will begin with a carbon footprint assessment, in which a carbon inventory check will be carried out on scope 1 and 2 as per the carbon inventory guide to determine the businesses carbon inventory level. This will be followed by a gap analysis that will involve a companywide diagnostic for determining gaps to achieving ESG objectives while identifying areas in need of improvement.
Next, a benchmarking survey is carried out in which industry peer performance is reviewed to gauge the client’s comparative standing. Here, industry best practices and adaptation potentials are considered in detail. A materiality assessment is then carried out to determine the target audience for common disclosure of information, and internal and external stakeholders are engaged to ascertain the financial materiality and impact materiality for the business.
This is then followed by the establishment of sustainability indicators for financial and sustainability reporting purposes, with a data capture and reporting framework developed as well. The next stage involves the sustainability strategy and reporting analysis in which ESG goals are established and corporate level ESG strategies are devised to enable sustainability reporting to take place.
Here, appropriate governance structures are also proposed to ensure effective implementation. A low carbon design is then developed by reviewing architectural and engineering designs that assess the carbon footprint accordingly, and low carbon design alterations are put forward at the city, project and building level.
A sustainability action plan is then developed in which time-phased implementation strategies are put forward to meet ESG targets. Progressive milestones and performance tracking mechanisms are determined and set out here.
Finally, we provide a follow up sustainability training programme for board members and senior management which includes coaching sessions for strategy execution and internal reporting.
Get in touch with us
Talk to us about your interests in built environment and natural environment projects and we’ll help you find the best solutions for meeting your unique sustainability and performance goals.
