ESG Strategy and Climate Change

Companies face a growing need to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles into enterprise risk management, business strategy, and decision-making. Regulators and investors are demanding more consistent and transparent reporting on ESG metrics and targets, particularly on climate change and sustainability through frameworks such as TCFD. Further, we must plan for the physical risks of climate change and the transition to a low-carbon economy, which influence operations and strategies across sectors. Our ESG and climate change experts help clients navigate environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities while managing climate-related risks, reducing GHG emissions, and developing climate-informed strategies.

What is TCFD?

The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) is an organization of leading global investors and companies who released voluntary climate-financial disclosure recommendations in 2017. The TCFD recommendations drive consistent and decision-useful disclosures to help organizations identify and manage climate-related risks and opportunities. Our team applies the TCFD Framework to help clients identify, manage and disclose climate change risks and risk management strategies.

Read our global study exploring the key components of effective TCFD reporting here.

Featured Capabilities

Our team has worked with leading banks, institutional investors, and pension funds in Canada, as well as Fortune 100 companies internationally on ESG and climate change strategies. We support all facets of your strategy, ranging from GHG mitigation assessments and life-cycle assessment (LCA), to social and environmental risk management, reporting and disclosure.

Climate Change, Resilience and Sustainability

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Climate Risk and TCFD Aligned Services

Our experts in climate science, physical risk and economics can help you assess and disclose climate-related risks and opportunities. Our proprietary benchmarking tool can compare your disclosures and maturity to your peers and identify ways to enhance disclosures for your investors. We work with your business and stakeholders to prepare disclosures and develop a 3- or 5-year roadmap to fully-fledged TCFD reporting.

ESG Strategies, Benchmarking, Reporting and Disclosure

We can assist you in creating a comprehensive ESG strategy for organization. We can help you assess your ESG performance and progress, set targets, engage stakeholders, and implement the actions to fulfill your strategy. We can also support you with the full range of ESG and sustainability reporting standards and frameworks such as GRI, SASB, 17 SDG’s, GRESB, CDP and more.

GHG and Life-cycle Assessments

We can conduct scenario analysis, GHG mitigation assessments (including Scope 3 emissions) and life-cycle assessments (LCAs) to help you manage emissions and other environmental impacts across your portfolio and operations.

Decarbonization and Net Zero Pathways

We can develop decarbonization, net zero, and circular economy strategies and embed them within your ESG and sustainability reporting. We can also create comprehensive climate change and sustainability action plans, and report on your actions through frameworks such as CDP.

Clients We Help

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Investors and Asset Owners

We can help you understand and benchmark how investees are addressing ESG, climate and sustainability issues. We can identify ESG and sustainability metrics and targets, and develop comprehensive strategies and action plans to help you reach your objectives. Our experienced team also supports you in creating reporting frameworks and disclosures with information important to your own investors.

Business and Industry

We support all industries in developing ESG and climate change strategies, including mining, energy, infrastructure and transportation. We can provide a thorough review of your approach to climate risks and ESG topics, satisfying investor demands, regulations and strategic imperatives. Our climate experts can also assess physical and transition risks to your real assets and infrastructure, upstream and downstream supply chains, and customer markets. To accompany your ESG and sustainability strategies, we can develop clear and consistent disclosure reports (including for TCFD, SASB, GRI, CDP and more). We can also deliver an employee/stakeholder engagement strategy on ESG and climate.

Government

We can help you quantify climate risks and GHG emissions, and integrate sustainability, climate change resilience and decarbonization principles into your operations and strategies. We can also help you benchmark and report on emissions reductions (via CDP, PCP, etc.) and climate risk management, and create a comprehensive action plan to reach your goals. Government entities are now beginning to disclose under the TCFD, and we can help prepare the disclosures to inform your stakeholders and the public.

Real Estate and Infrastructure

We can support you with the full range of ESG and climate change services. We work with your business and stakeholders to develop ESG, climate change and sustainability strategies for your portfolio. We can quantify physical risks and opportunities to your real assets and conduct climate-related due diligence on investments. We can also complete life-cycle assessments, GHG quantification and environmental/social impact assessments. Further, we can help you communicate how you are addressing ESG and sustainability issues through various reporting frameworks, and determine how your strategy would fare in the transition to a low-carbon economy.