Sustainability

Work to build long-term value and resilience with sustainability

The pace and scale of change in state, federal, and other jurisdictional regulatory requirements, along with standards-driven disclosure requirements, continue to accelerate, comprising a mix of voluntary and regulated reporting. Our regulatory reporting readiness services can advise you as you assess your priorities across strategy, operations, finance, and reporting. These include:

• Global sustainability regulatory scoping;
• Sustainability reporting gap assessment;
• Data, processes, and controls;
• Sustainability governance; and
• Disclosure drafting.

Navigate the effects of changing climate and nature impacts

As stakeholders continue to seek increased transparency and the business community becomes more familiar with climate risk and opportunity, many senior leaders and boards are looking to the future. Our team advises organizations on sustainability metrics that can encourage business resilience, continuity, and climate-related financial and operational risk mitigation. Services include:

• Scenario analysis and climate risk assessment to identify risks and opportunities;
• Greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory and carbon emissions assessment;
• Decarbonization plans, climate transition plan development and target-setting; and
• Nature, biodiversity, and related services.

Move beyond compliance with sustainability regulation

Materiality is often the foundation for sustainability strategy, risk management, and disclosure. Our materiality services can advise you on ways you can meet the expectations of stakeholders, investors, standard-setters, and regulators. These services include:

• Impact materiality, which integrates accepted guidance to advise on the outward impacts of your business;
• Financial materiality, which integrates International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) guidance to advise on impacts to your enterprise value;
• Double materiality, which is guided by Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) to advise on European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) requirements for disclosure; and
• A materiality refresh, which is guided by Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), ISSB, or CSRD to regularly adjust for emerging prioritized impacts.

Design a foundation for reliable reporting and quality data

We can advise you on matters related to a rapidly evolving sustainability landscape, offering services centered on ways to establish a governance and controls framework that fosters reliable reporting and lays the groundwork for high-quality data used in decision-making. These include:

• Controls assessments;
• Process and control design and implementation;
• Controls and remediation testing;
• Governance assessments and remediation; and
• Metric and disclosure testing.

Increase efficiency and reduce disruption

Our award-winning audit and assurance technology, Omnia, along with our access to a skilled global network of sustainability resources with cross-industry experience enable us to serve you as you navigate the sustainability reporting landscape. Our assurance services are designed to:

• Increase efficiency and minimize disruptions with a sustainability assurance approach integrated with the financial statement audit; and
• Allow you to demonstrate transparency to investors and stakeholders.