Verdantix Green Quadrant: ESG & Sustainability Assurance Services 2024

Deloitte has been positioned as a Leader in the inaugural Verdantix ESG & Sustainability Assurance Services Green Quadrant 2024. This Verdantix Green Quadrant provides a detailed, fact-based benchmark of 14 of the most prominent ESG & Sustainability Consulting firms and their capabilities.

The Verdantix Green Quadrant highlights, “Deloitte excels at integrating sustainability into broader business strategies and has experience working with many functions across its client base.  As a result, Deloitte is well suited to large, multinational firms seeking one provider for integrated sustainability and financial reporting and assurance solutions to meet the demands of stakeholders and regulators.”

“We are proud of this important recognition from Verdantix. This research highlights the important role of assurance in the evolving sustainability regulatory and reporting landscape, with a critical emphasis on the application of recognized assurance, ethics and independence standards required to be followed by registered audit firms,” says Kristen Sullivan, Sustainability Assurance leader, Deloitte Global. “We believe Deloitte’s tech-enabled and industry-informed approach to comprehensive and reliable sustainability reporting and assurance services sets us apart in the profession.”

In this inaugural report, Deloitte has scored the highest of all providers for its strategy & vision for this market, reflecting deep expertise in sustainability reporting standards, ongoing engagement with regulators and standard setters, and proprietary digital tools – including Deloitte’s AI-assisted Omnia ESG tool.

The analysis further highlighted Deloitte’s pre-assurance services offering, for which it earned the highest score of all providers, as well as strategic investments in its global Sustainability & Climate practice and its IndustryAdvantage programme, to ensure that the firm has the digital technology, personnel, capabilities and services offering to rapidly scale, to meet growing demand for sustainability assurance.”

What you can learn from the report:

• The current size and state of the ESG and sustainability assurance services market following rapid growth in recent years
• Which service providers and offerings are leading the market
• A benchmark of ESG and sustainability assurance offerings against four service lines: ESG and sustainability pre-assurance; ESG and sustainability report and data assurance, carbon emissions assurance; and sustainable finance assurance
• How Deloitte’s deep expertise, strategy, vision, integrated offering and innovative digital tools set us apart
• The strengths, capabilities, and differentiators of the other vendors assessed
• How new technologies are being used to streamline ESG assurance and providing enhanced insights

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