Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) encompasses a broad category of topics with wide implications for how companies and industries manage and disclose on these topics. Many teams grapple with the issues of when to start, where to start, what to prioritize, and even the simple question of “why are we doing this?” Do all the components of “Environmental, Social, and Governance” matter equally? How do you measure success? How do you measure progress? We've designed this ESG Compliance "Kit" to help guide you through this process.
Briefing: Fulfilling Increasing Demand for ESG Compliance from Investors, Lenders, Customers and Other Stakeholders.
Ryan Lynch, BSI Americas Professional Services' Practice Director of Sustainability, provides an in-depth, 30-minute briefing on the increasing demand for companies to comply with Environmental Social Governance. He outlines how leading organizations are making ESG compliance easier, accurate and cost-effective including why investors are increasingly caring about a company’s ESG profile when considering how they allocate their investment capital, when should we expect ESG compliance to be mandatory, and how companies are creating actionable ESG goals and implementing accurate ESG measurement of their upstream and downstream impacts.
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Connect ESG software: Making ESG Compliance Easier, Accurate and Cost-Effective
Connect ESG is a is a pre-configured connect custom application, within BSI’s connect ecosystem, that provides a way for clients to manage their environmental, social and governance (ESG)-related impacts. Companies can use connect ESG to streamline their collection and reporting (ESG) data, increase efficiency, monitor and track performance, and improve reporting to impacted stakeholders. Features include Key Performance Indicators (KPI) data capture, enterprise-scale work flow automation, multi-language support, aligned to major reporting frameworks (Global Reporting Initiative, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, Carbon Disclosure Project) and provides key strategic insights.
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SEC Proposed Climate-Related Disclosures
It’s expected that the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) will soon require public companies to disclose climate-related risks and GHG emissions. They have released this fact sheet on the proposed ruling that would require a domestic or foreign registrant to include certain climate-related information in its registration statements and periodic reports, such as on Form 10-K. There will also likely be a trickle-down effect on privately-held companies who are their suppliers. The rule would require both reporting of GHG emissions and on how climate disruption may impact company operations in the future.
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A Case Study in Sustainable Development
A global footwear brand wanted improvement in a supplier's sustainability, particularly regarding chronic excessive working hours. The resulting program reduced worker turnover from 18% to 3%, reduced production defects and rework and established control over working hours, maintaining them below the client’s allowable threshold from July 2018 to present.
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Sustainability and the New Normal
This whitepaper outlines the major long term post-Covid changes in societal and organizational behavior and their effects on achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). These include Supply Chain (In) Visibility and the need for much greater supply chain end-to-end control, real action on resilience (not just discussions), massive infrastructure changes including behaviors such as investment, education and individual and organizational skills, changes in how we measure progress beyond traditional metrics, the crucial role cities have and more.
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Key ESG Reporting and GHG Management Programs
The need for companies and public-sector organizations to understand and communicate environmental, social and governance (ESG)-related impacts and risks has accelerated as investors and insurers increasingly calculate value and make decisions based on these factors. This set of service descriptions outlines the basic areas needed in developing and embedding sustainability planning in alignment with business strategy, and accounting and reporting of such a wide-ranging, complex datasets across organizations and their many functions, locations and departments.
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Sustainable Investor Infographic
ESG investing is estimated to grow from $30 trillion to $50 trillion over the next two decades. Shareholders are demanding action, as consequences are growing for companies that fail to adapt. This infographic illustrates sustainable investors’ area of interest mapped to BSI expertise.
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How Well Do You Know Your Supply Chain?
As consumer and business demands continue to rise, supply chains are expected to expand their portfolios and deliver both quality and cost effective products. With this growth comes new threats, such as human rights and labor violations, continuity issues, safety concerns and security risks, that could drastically impact an organization’s brand, reputation and bottom line. To effectively manage and protect the supply chain, organizations must have the needed controls in place to ensure visibility into who and how their products are being produced and transported. This video asks (and answers) the basic question: It’s time to ask yourself, "How well you know your supply chain?"
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Circular Economy: Eliminating Waste and Uncovering Value
This summary outlines specific tools to help an organization implement its approach to the circular economy including Maturity Assessments, Management Systems Integration, ESG Strategies and Materiality Assessments, Life Cycle Analysis, Waste Diversion Programs, Sustainability Facilitation Workshops, Climate Adaptation Studies, Material and Process Engineering Studies.
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Clean Energy and Climate Action to Advance Environmental Stewardship
BSI’s work in clean energy and climate action has enabled our clients to improve their productivity performance, reduce their environmental impacts, become more energy efficient, and align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), including SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), and SDG 13 (Climate Action). This is partial list of services in this key area.
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Services Supporting Sustainability
BSI helps organizations effectively respond to the growing focus on sustainability and ESG performance by providing a comprehensive range of technical and consulting services, best practices, best-in-class risk intelligence and information tools, and implementation support at any stage of sustainability program maturity. This is partial list of services in this key area.
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Improve your organization's performance and resilience.
BSI Consulting, a subsidiary of BSI, is a global consultancy dedicated to supporting clients managing their risks in environmental, health and safety, security and sustainability to deliver sustainable, socially responsible solutions. With clients representing a range of sectors - technology, life sciences and healthcare, manufacturing, energy, retail, food and beverage - BSI is the organization to go to when the path forward is unchartered and deep technical experience is required.
Our innovative solutions synergistically work in lockstep with our consulting services to deliver positive sustainable impact for our clients and a higher degree of resilience.
