ESG advisory
Governments and cities. Organizations, developers and asset owners. We’re all on a path of transformation, using knowledge and experience to build a better world.
We help organizations protect the environment, enhance communities, improve governance, and integrate sustainable development into everyday business. With our guidance, your ambitions will turn into practical roadmaps to achieve your goals.
Strategic sustainability advice. Designed for impact.
With infrastructure advisory at our core, we provide strategic business consulting through a sustainability lens. Our consultants work with you to create a robust strategy that’s actionable, aligns with your organization’s goals and adapts to new climate and nature disclosure requirements emerging across multiple jurisdictions.
Our in-house sustainability consultants bring in our technical leads covering a suite of topics — decarbonization, circular economy, supply chain, energy transition, water, agriculture, regenerative remediation, stakeholder engagement, social value, nature-based solutions, climate resiliency, communications, corporate strategy and finance — to provide seamless service delivery.
We then design targeted and timebound approaches that are innovative, pragmatic and grounded in science, identifying material issues and developing appropriate risk management solutions along the way. Importantly, we will guide you to plan, implement and operationalize your new strategy.
An assessment of the environmental and social risks facing an organization and the development of plans to address them. As a high-level advisory service, our sustainability consultants help guide senior leaders by aligning strategy and actions that transform their business model, garnering a competitive advantage and creating sustainable legacies.
Our consultants help organizations steward the environment, develop climate resiliency, enhance communities, integrate sustainable development into everyday business, and improve overall organizational governance.
The benefits of sustainability advisory
Our process uncovers a complete view of the risks and opportunities your organization will face while transitioning to more robust measurement and transparency. We understand how those risks may evolve and what’s required for meaningful mitigations to strengthen organizational resilience.
Adding social value
From community consultation to promoting local skills and employment, our social value lens increases the impact of projects, for society and the planet.
From community consultation to promoting local skills and employment, our social value lens increases the impact of projects, for society and the planet.
Reaching net zero
We can help you achieve your net zero carbon targets by creating bespoke net zero roadmaps, implementing energy transition strategies, and adopting nature-based solutions.
We can help you achieve your net zero carbon targets by creating bespoke net zero roadmaps, implementing energy transition strategies, and adopting nature-based solutions.
Nature positive solutions
Advising on nature-related disclosures (e.g., TNFD and SBTN), nature-positive road mapping, devising nature restoration plans, and integrating projects into nature and biodiversity markets to enhance projects and the natural environment.
Advising on nature-related disclosures (e.g., TNFD and SBTN), nature-positive road mapping, devising nature restoration plans, and integrating projects into nature and biodiversity markets to enhance projects and the natural environment.
Beyond strategy
We’re here for the entire journey — from risk analysis and identification to strategy development, governance, measurement, implementation and program delivery. Every transformation is unique, so through collaboration and a suite of technical tools designed to drive efficient change, we address your specific challenges and bring your vision to life.
A better way to manage risk
Our dedicated nature advisory teams help you asses your impact and dependency on natural systems, guiding you to improve supply chain sustainability, community engagement and site resilience. We evaluate climate risks to your business continuity, processes and the tangible risks to your buildings, assets and workforce.
Unlock new funding
Demonstrating how your plans achieve sustainability objectives is often a key requirement for grant funding. Beyond a traditional business case, we quantify the health benefits and savings that result from travel and clean air policies.
Competitive advantage
We support cities and nations to develop routes to competitive advantage by anticipating and preparing for environmental, social, regulatory and geopolitical change. We help businesses take the first step by benchmarking against peers to review their maturity and plan actions to improve.
Stakeholder confidence
We increase investor confidence in the future of your organization by supporting your requests for quantifiable metrics and transparent monitoring and reporting data. Leveraging common reporting frameworks to communicate your strategy and performance provides stakeholders with a comparable understanding of your progress.
- Benchmarking, target setting, action planning and reporting
- Strategy for ESG approach and implementation
- Materiality assessment
- ESG risk management
- Strategy integration
- ESG roadmap development
- ESG competency assessment and training (employee, boards)
- Supply chain due diligence (sustainability and social)
- Portfolio decarbonization strategy, auditing and benchmarking
- Climate risk and adaptation planning
- Climate-related transition risk scenario analysis
- CSA/SEC-readiness for mandatory climate disclosures
- ISSB S2 and TCFD adoption and integration
- Net zero and decarbonization planning
- Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) target setting
- Embodied carbon analysis and alternatives selection
- Embodied and operational carbon modelling
- Carbon neutrality planning and target setting
- Scope 1, 2, & 3 organizational analysis and quantification
- Methane Certification (MiQ,)
- Carbon life cycle analysis (LCA)
- Community engagement frameworks
- ESG disclosure readiness assessment and framework alignment (ISSB, TCFD, SASB, CDP, TNFD, GRI, etc.)
- Disclosure development and enhancement
- ESG ratings assessment
- KPI and data controls assessment
The Network Rail environment strategy involved seeking the views from many stakeholders and needed to be grounded in data. AECOM did an excellent piece of work bringing together different perspectives and shaping these into a coordinated strategy. The final product was of a very high quality and has been well received throughout the rail industry
Latest thinking from ESG Advisory
As the TNFD releases the final draft of their beta framework, we look at how your organization can go beyond disclosures to restore our vital relationship with nature.
Our ESG advisors share our four stage sustained approach to tackling Scope 3 emissions, helping us reach ambitious near and long-term emissions reduction targets.
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