- Current state analysis on ESG trends and ESG readiness of the company
- Determining ESG maturity (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)
- Identifying relevant material business opportunities and risks related to ESG (using international benchmarks if required or through double materiality assessment with the help of KPMG’s ESG Landscape Assessment tool)
- Analysing key risks (including climate risk with KPMG’s Climate-IQ solution, decarbonisation, circular economy, financing)
- Defining ESG ambitions to match maturity (vision)
- Developing commercially competitive strategic options creating sustainable value that take a different approach to exploiting ESG opportunities and mitigating the associated risks
- Support in choosing a strategic direction
- Elaborating a set of objectives and tools
- Drawing up action plans
- Establishing a monitoring system
- Communicating the “ESG story” to internal and external stakeholders of the organisation to improve the value and external perception of the organisation (with a particular focus on capital market communication in the case of listed companies, IPOs and bond issues)
During the ESG strategy related projects we take into consideration the requirements and recommendations of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards.