Designing the sustainability programme and communication strategy for a global technology company

Our client, a global technology company, required support in development of their sustainability ambition, strategy & key targets, and approach to external reporting.

We worked with key stakeholders in the business to undertake a materiality assessment, alongside assessment of reporting options to identify opportunities and provide recommendations for framework alignment to ensure best practice.

Our Scope

  • Health check, including peer group assessment & benchmarking
  • Ambition development and customer inquiry response strategy
  • Materiality assessment & data analysis to understand key priority areas
  • GHG baseline for Scope 1, 2 and relevant Scope 3 emissions for FY20-FY22
  • Led communications planning & disclosure within annual report & CDP

Outcomes

  • Holistic strategy and disclosure in place with supporting governance structure
  • Identified synergies between disclosure and reporting frameworks including CDP, EcoVadis, TCFD, SASB, GRI and SBTi and informed best approach to annual reporting
  • Established a solid governance framework to build sustainability requirements across the supply chain and into business processes, through the development of a sustainable procurement plan
  • Robust decarbonisation roadmap developed on insights from baseline and priorities based on impact
  • Detailed emissions baseline datasets and methodology packs provided a robust foundation for reporting processes

Transformation

Strengthen and differentiate brand:

Alignment with industry leading
reporting frameworks ensures
best practice.

Leverage actionable insight:

Developed data-backed roadmap
based on insights from baseline.

Focus on core:

Reporting and disclosure process
delivered as part of a holistic
ESG strategy.

Inject agility into enterprise:

Establishment of a robust governance
framework enables ESG requirements
to be built into business operations and processes.

 

Glossary

  • CDP – Carbon Disclosure Project
  • ESG – Environmental, Social & Governance
  • GRI – Global Reporting Initiative
  • SASB – Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
  • SBTi – Science Based Targets initiative
  • TCFD – Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure