Sustainability & climate change (S&CC) refers to how a company manages its operations and its interactions with stakeholders. Good S&CC management, therefore, requires a full-spectrum view of the business, encompassing business strategies, practices, and processes. Deloitte member firms have the experience and subject matter knowledge to assist your company in managing S&CC considerations, in support of the objective of delivering sustainable value. Regardless of your challenge, we can help you find a solution.
Examples of organizational objectives:
- Respond to increasing regulation and stakeholder pressure for environmental and social responsibility
- Systematically execute and report on sustainability & climate change
- Set goals, monitor execution, track performance, and report results – on a scale that is right for the company.
- Establish roles and responsibilities; align incentives; and create accountability for S&CC activities.
Our solution:
Deloitte can help you with all aspects of managing your S&CC activities, from defining governance structures to understanding stakeholder concerns and expectations. In addition, we can assist you in:
- Assessing organizational factors that influence the design of your S&CC function
- Designing governance structures that will enable your company to effectively execute on its S&CC strategy
- Identifying appropriate resources and responsibilities necessary to successfully carry out S&CC activities
- Developing an approach to continuously evolve the S&CC function in response to external changing market demands and internal drivers
- Benchmarking current S&CC performance against peer groups
- Analyzing benchmark results to understand where improvement opportunities may exist
- Establishing a vision, mission, and initiatives that can help improve competitiveness and the ability to react to changing markets, regulations, and expectations
- Understanding your issues and stakeholder concerns, and identifying key risks
- Determining approach, subject matter, criteria, and scope to develop a detailed work plan and timetable
In addition, we will:
- Perform tests and conduct interviews at headquarters and business units and at select sites, according to the agreed upon scope
- Report the results to you and your external audience, providing detailed observations and recommendations for management purposes
- Help you gain feedback from stakeholders and define the best way to respond in the next audit cycle
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