Leading the charge to net-zero

Our leadership team applies its experience, track record, and dedication to net-zero sustainability with confidence and vision.

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Our people

Our team is dedicated to our mission: a net-zero sustainable future. We apply our experience and expertise to zero in on action for our clients. We bring passion and focus to zerograding and draw on Deloitte’s end-to-end capabilities to address these global challenges, sustainably and reliably, by building global net-zero and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) solutions with our clients.

Bernhard Lorentz has dedicated his career to two major goals: Decarbonization of industries and improvement of public service. In his role as Global Consulting Sustainability & Climate Leader, he oversees sustainability topics within Global Consulting and serves as the founding chair of the Deloitte Center for Sustainable Progress. His main responsibility is to provide clients with comprehensive and globally integrated support in managing the transformation towards net-zero. Within Germany, Bernhard is in charge of Sustainability & Climate across all services as the leader of the newly founded entity, Deloitte Sustainability & Climate (DSC).

He is widely recognized as a policy advisor, with a particular focus on global energy and decarbonization strategies. In his capacity, he acts as a liaison between government, industry, and academia, advising clients in various industries such as automotive, public sector, hard-to-abate industries, and finance. Bernhard serves on numerous boards of public, academic, and philanthropic institutions in Germany and the United States. He is the founder of various think tanks in the field including Agora Energiewende, MCC and the Climate Neutrality Foundation and served as chairman of the Mercator Foundation.

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Nicole Röttmer is a Deloitte Partner, and Co-Leader of Deloitte Sustainability & Climate (DSC). She drives and advises on business transformation for profitable sustainability. Having served more than 150 corporate transformations across sectors and geographies, she is building on 20 years of sustainability excellence. Her focus topics include climate risk and impacts, biodiversity and nature, circularity, ESG strategies as well as digital solutions. Nicole has a track record in (co-)developing new ecosystem and client solutions for assessing the financial impact of climate change.

As advisor and expert, Nicole is and has been serving a range of ecosystem actors. These include corporate Boards, the European Commission, UNEP FI, GFANZ, Race to Zero, the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi), the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG), the Accounting Standards Committee of Germany (ASCG), WWF, and CDP. She acts as Board Member of the Sustainable Finance Research Group, and an Honorary Research Affiliate to Oxford University.

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Lydia Eckhard is passionate about making businesses better by making them more sustainable. She leads the sustainability practice at Deloitte Germany and has focused on supporting end-to-end environmental, social, and governance transformations with multiple multi-national clients throughout her career.
Lydia successfully supports industrial companies within their ESG transformation with a focus on ESG reporting and steering, where she has experience in a wide range of projects covering conception and implementation of ESG processes and systems for ESG planning and reporting, (digital) transformations of Finance functions, and implementations of (ESG) steering models. Combining financial performance with sustainable impact in the operations, Lydia focuses on linking ESG board-room commitments with tangible actions on the factory floor.

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Zerograding – because it matters
 

We believe that for something this important there needs to be a word. We call it Zerograding – upgrading for a net-zero sustainable future.

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