Set Up a Future-Ready Business with Sustainable ESG Practices

Yes — increasingly. Even if you aren't directly regulated, your large corporate clients likely are. They are now required to report on their Scope 3 emissions, which includes data from your operations. To remain a preferred supplier to major brands, you must provide transparent ESG metrics. Many companies are also discovering that banks, insurers and prospective employees are applying ESG criteria before public regulatory deadlines.

CSRD (EU) is much broader, covering environmental, social, and governance topics with a Double Materiality lens — meaning you must report both how sustainability issues affect your business and how your business impacts the world. SEC (USA) rules focus more strictly on climate-related financial risks. We help you collect data once and format it for both sets of rules, avoiding duplicated effort.

For a first-time report, we recommend allowing 4–6 months to establish the data pipeline, complete supplier outreach and produce the final document. Subsequent annual reports are significantly faster as the systems and supplier relationships are already in place. Many clients run their second-year cycle in 6–8 weeks.

Yes. We are human-in-the-loop experts. If you already use a platform like Persefoni or Watershed, we act as the data engine that feeds those platforms with verified, clean information — which is often the biggest hurdle for companies. We can also help you select and implement a platform if you don't yet have one.

Scope 3 includes all indirect emissions across your value chain — from suppliers, employee travel, product use and end-of-life disposal. It is hard because you don't own the data; it sits with third parties who may not have measured it themselves. We solve this by managing the outreach and primary data collection directly with your supply chain partners, replacing estimates with verified figures.

No — and for good reason. To maintain independence, the team that prepares the data (us) should be different from the team that audits it (typically a Big 4 or specialist assurance firm). However, we prepare the full Audit Evidence Pack that makes their assurance process fast, straightforward and less expensive for you.

We provide the data that shows accurately where you are. While we are data specialists rather than green strategy consultants, the transparency we provide often reveals practical opportunities for energy reduction, supply chain optimization and governance improvements that naturally improve your score over successive reporting cycles.

We typically start with a Gap Analysis. We review what data you already have, what the law requires for your size and sector, and provide a clear project plan showing the steps to reach full compliance. This scoping engagement is usually completed within 2–3 weeks and gives you everything you need to understand the scope and cost of your reporting programme.