Realizing Sustainability Advantage
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Sustainability is critical to the future of our world
. . . and essential to long-term business success.
Sustainability is essential to business success, focusing on how a company creates long-term value and impacts the world.
In 1987, the UN’s Brundtland Commission framed sustainable development as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
In 2015, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out a practical blueprint — a common language for action on poverty, inequality, climate, biodiversity, and just societies.
For businesses, the SDGs are not just obligations; they are a roadmap for opportunity: focus on what is material, show credible contribution, and express corporate purpose through action.
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We help businesses and private equity firms realise ‘Sustainability Advantage’ in their businesses, investments and corporate transactions . . . from strategy, through assessment and implementation, to reporting:
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Strategy: Start with the building blocks — vision, mission, values — and translate them into prioritised actions that realise opportunities and manage risk.
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Assessment: Run a materiality assessment to identify what matters most to the business and its stakeholders, then build a clear framework with programmes, targets and KPIs for each priority issue.
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Implementation: Engage people and execute — governance, processes, systems, external feedback and regular review — so sustainability becomes part of how the business runs.
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Reporting: Produce robust, decision-useful reporting that follows recognised standards, meets ESG rater expectations, and provides comparable, assured information on performance.
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The new era of corporate sustainability reporting
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The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) elevates sustainability reporting to the level of financial reporting. The first companies (those already in scope of the previous NFRD) apply the new rules for financial year 2024 and publish in 2025, using the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
Practical. Insightful. Impactful . . . and required by law
CSRD will apply to all companies with (approx. 50,000 companies in European Economic Area):
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Over 250 employees
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More than €50 million in annual revenue
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More than €25 million in total assets
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International and non-EU companies with more than 150€ million annual revenue within the EU
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Any EU company that meets the criteria is required to file an annual report using the CSRD's forthcoming sustainability taxonomy, on how sustainability influences their business, as well as the company's impact on people and the environment.
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CSRD also requires mandatory assurance by an independent assurance service provider against sustainability reporting standards. This is to make sure information is accurate and reliable.
