Insights

It’s investor ESG assessment season. We support many of our clients to maximise their ESG assessment scores and whilst they all differ slightly there are five key things you can quickly do to boost your rating:  Get your policies documented . Check what you’ve got in place against our Policy Checklist and draft new policies, or produce a standalone ‘Summary of ESG Policies’ document to summarise what you have and close any gaps.  Measure your water and waste. If you’re an of

The Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) has published the second draft of their revision to their Corporate Net Zero Standard. It’s not final but it’s in its latter stages and this is likely to be the last public consultation opportunity, which is important because this latest version raises the bar considerably. If you want to share your feedback you need to do so by December 12 th 2025 .  In terms of the changes proposed, we think the ones that will most impact whether

Scope 3 emissions, the indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions which typically stem largely from your supply chain, are often the hardest of GHG emissions to measure. Not because you don’t know your supply chain, but because finding accurate, relevant, and consistent emission factors is not easy.   We know many consultants use the freely available US EPA emission factors, but we’ve steered clear from this because at Rawstone we have only a small US client-base and the emissio