Climate Change and Sustainability Services Division
Climate change and sustainability issues are rising to the top of corporate agendas. Viewing climate change as a transformational opportunity will only strengthen your organization and position it for future growth and success. Ignoring the issue or approaching it with ad-hoc initiatives means being left behind.
Leading organizations are re-imagining and re-shaping their long-term competitive business strategies. They’re moving away from a now-outmoded view of sustainability as a compliance or reporting risk alone.
Responding to climate change presents both opportunities and risks. Understanding the implications of both and creating a balanced but ambitious response are critical steps in gaining competitive advantage.
There are four key drivers to consider in establishing a balanced response:
Why to Choose Us? We have longstanding experience with assurance of sustainability and climate change reporting, applying international standards including ISAE 3000, developed by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, and, at the discretion of our clients, AA1000 AS, issued by the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability.
Our refined and tested approaches are based on international requirements such as the Global Reporting Guidelines, WBCSD guidelines, international accounting and annual reporting standards, as well as national guidelines.
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REVENUE GENERATION
Design, manufacture and marketing of climate-friendly products and services
Selling credits on the carbon market
Loss of market share from changes in customer perceptions
Loss of competitive or substitute offerings
REGULATION
Tax incentives
stimulus funding and subsidies at global
regional, local and sector levels
Extra investment and possible additional financial penalties for companies that are reactive rather than proactive in responding to climate change
COST REDUCTION
Integrating clean tech into the business and greening the supply chain to achieve greater energy efficiencies in operations
Real estate
Facilities management and IT
Energy conservation
Possible increases in the prices of raw material and energy as suppliers respond to changes in the regulatory environment
STAKEHOLDER EXPECTATIONS
Meeting shareholders, employees, customer and media demands for higher levels of commitment to climate change
Being aware of the actions of competitors and staying ahead of the industry’s response
Being seen as a laggard for not having a climate change strategy stakeholders can influence the bottom line by choosing to support or abandon organizations based on their climate change strategies
BTM CONSULTING helps its clients to successfully manage corporate responsibility and sustainable development issues. We can support you in manifold ways, and help in the following areas:
Understand your issues and stakeholder concerns, and identify key risks.
Determine approach, subject matter, criteria, and scope with you and develop a detailed working plan and timetable
Perform tests and conduct interviews at headquarters and business units and at select sites, according to the agreed upon scope
Report the results to you and your external audience, providing detailed observations and recommendations for management purposes
Help you gain feedback from stakeholders and define the best way to respond in the next audit cycle
Verify that all relevant aspects, systems, and processes in your company are subject to the assurance
Determine the appropriate level of assurance for your company
CLIMATE CHANGE MANAGEMENT SERVICES.
We help you in:
Defining governance structures to understanding stakeholder concerns and expectations
Assessing organizational factors that influence the design of your Climate Change function
Designing governance structures that will enable your company to effectively execute on its Climate Change strategy
Identifying appropriate resources and responsibilities necessary to successfully carry out Climate Change activities
Developing an approach to continuously evolve the Climate Change function in response to external changing market demands and internal drivers
Benchmarking current Climate Change performance against peer groups
Analyzing benchmark results to understand where improvement opportunities may exist
Establishing a vision, mission, and initiatives that can help improve competitiveness and the ability to react to changing markets, regulations, and expectations
Understanding your issues and stakeholder concerns, and identifying key risks
Determining approach, subject matter, criteria, and scope to develop a detailed work plan and timetable
We can help you with all aspects of the reporting process, from defining objectives and planning the report to finalization, assurance and approval with due respect to independence. We help you also:
Assess how efficiently the report communicates with stakeholders
Assess the level of management commitment expressed in the report
Evaluate how well the report achieves credibility with stakeholders
All BTM CONSULTING Teams Thank You for Your Trust in Us!