ESG risks can be devastating if not properly managed. Proactively planning for these threats can reduce costs and protect your business.
ESG Risk Guard partners with your organization to develop your ESG strategy or to help you proactively identify, manage and mitigate ESG risks to your business. We design tailored roadmaps so that you can navigate the complex ESG risk landscape while preserving and protecting your financial health.
Unsure how or where to start? We provide a range of tools tailored to your business to help you quickly analyze and assess your organization’s preparedness to manage your ESG (including climate-related) risks. These tools provide you practical steps to identify, manage, and mitigate the ESG risks you have identified, either on your own or through a continued partnership with us.
Suitable for small and mid-size businesses in all sectors and for institutional and other investors. We work with CEOs, business owners, business leaders and investors to identify their greatest ESG risks and develop plans to identify and mitigate exposure and to identify potential opportunities across their portfolios. Whether getting started or navigating more complex situations, we can help.
For all organizations, we lead executive, C-level and Board engagements across the spectrum of ESG risk and strategy. From education to calculating your carbon footprint, we can help. For those more advanced in their sustainability journey, from calculating or estimating your Scope 3 emissions, to planning for Net Zero or Science Based Targets, or TCFD planning and reporting.
While our clients are frequently mid-sized companies in all sectors, asset owners, asset managers or investors, our services are applicable to organizations of all sizes. We are happy to engage with businesses with more complex needs or corporate infrastructure.
Environmental, Social and Governance, or ESG risks are being used increasingly by the investor community to assess the sustainability and risk profile of companies
These include climate change mitigation, green- house gas (GHG) emissions, water security, waste, pollution, resource utilization and deforestation.
These include inequalities, diversity & inclusion, employee relations, health & safety and working conditions.
These include executive remuneration, board diversity and structure, donations and political lobbying, and bribery and corruption.
We focus exclusively on ESG Strategy and Risk Management. Your ESG strategy clarifies your direction and priorities, and defines what is needed to achieve competitive advantage and future success. ESG risks, and specifically climate risks, can be material.
We have an excellent working knowledge of the latest climate disclosure requirements such as TCFD and target alignment and setting standards such as SBTi, coupled with a strong understanding of global governance frameworks.
We are an independent advisory firm offering advice, analysis and planning support, underpinned and supported with years of business experience and understanding of risk management.
Our approach is business-focused and designed to offer only solutions that are material and relevant to your business, address your ESG needs and are consistent with your business strategy.
We provide ESG thought leadership and an in-depth understanding of macroeconomic and geo-political issues and their interconnectedness with ESG and ESG risks.
Contact us today to discuss how we can help prepare your organization to navigate the ESG Risk landscape
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