GHG emissions measurement: The time to measure is NOW!
We all know that reducing your company carbon footprint is good for our planet and the temptation can be just to get started with 'doing' things, but you won’t realise all the business benefits of reducing your footprint unless you measure it first. Why? Because ‘your’ carbon footprint is not just yours, it is also someone else’s. Let me explain: When we think of a company carbon footprint, we often think of the direct emission sources - the lighting and heating used in your
The ESG metrics you need to report (and they’re not all what you think)
Investors and large business clients routinely ask their portfolio and supply chain partners to provide ESG data. They do this so that they can understand your business from a risk and opportunity perspective. They want to know where you might cause actual environmental or social harm (and thus potentially brand harm for them), and where you might be doing something positive that they can capitalise on. Whilst unfortunately there are no standard metrics that they ask for, the
Three steps for businesses needing ESG basics in place to impress investors
For small and growth companies starting out on their environment, social and governance (ESG) journey it can be hard to know what to do, in what order, and what to delay until the company has grown more. We’re always working with private equity portfolio companies, and we know what they expect from their portfolio companies. We also know what ESG rating schemes (e.g. MSCI, Sustainalytics, ISS, etc.) evaluate company ESG performance on. Put these together, and if you want to a