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ESG Advisory

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations are vital for organizations aiming to achieve long-term sustainability, meet regulatory requirements, and respond to the expectations of investors, lenders, regulators and the communities they operate in.

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—Overview

ESG has moved from a communications exercise to a reporting obligation with an audit trail. The organisations that struggle are those whose disclosures were built by a marketing function and now have to withstand assurance.

We treat ESG as a governance and controls problem. What is material to this business, who owns each metric, where does the underlying data come from, and could an assurance provider trace a published number back to source? Answering those questions well is what separates a credible report from a reputational exposure.

—What this covers

01
Materiality assessment
Structured determination of which environmental, social and governance topics are material to your business and stakeholders, including double-materiality where relevant.
02
ESG governance and strategy
Board and management accountability for ESG, integration into the risk framework, and targets that are specific enough to be managed.
03
Reporting and disclosure
Preparation of sustainability disclosures aligned to the reporting framework your stakeholders expect, with a documented basis of preparation.
04
Data, metrics and controls
Metric definitions, data lineage, calculation methodology and the control layer needed to make numbers assurable.
05
Assurance readiness
Pre-assurance review to identify where evidence is missing before an assurance provider does.
06
Climate and transition risk
Identification of physical and transition risk exposure and its treatment inside the enterprise risk framework rather than alongside it.

—How we can help

What a full engagement typically produces. Scope is agreed up front and adjusted to what your organisation actually needs.

Materiality assessment and matrix
ESG governance framework and roles
ESG strategy with measurable targets
Metric definitions and data lineage documentation
Sustainability report or disclosure content
ESG risk register integrated with ERM
Assurance readiness gap report
Stakeholder engagement summary

—Standards and frameworks

Work is delivered against recognised standards so that findings are defensible to your auditors, your board and your regulator.

IFRS S1 and S2 (ISSB)GRI StandardsSASB Standards (ISSB)QFMA Governance Code — sustainability disclosureQSE Guidance on ESG ReportingUN SDGsQatar National Vision 2030

—Questions we get asked

Which reporting framework should we use?

It depends on who is asking. Lenders and international investors increasingly expect ISSB alignment; local listed disclosure follows exchange guidance; many stakeholders still read GRI. The practical answer is usually one primary framework with a mapping to the others.

Can you assure our ESG report?

We prepare organisations for assurance and identify where evidence would fail. Independent assurance over a report we helped prepare would compromise that independence, so we would not provide both.

—Related

Often delivered alongside

ServiceCorporate Governance AdvisoryGovernance frameworks that give boards clarity on who decides what, and on what basis.ServiceEnterprise Risk ManagementA structured view of what could go wrong, how much of it you are willing to accept, and who owns it.ServiceRegulatory ComplianceKnowing exactly which obligations apply to you, and being able to demonstrate that you meet them.

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ESG Advisory

—Overview

—What this covers

Materiality assessment

ESG governance and strategy

Reporting and disclosure

Data, metrics and controls

Assurance readiness

Climate and transition risk