Sustainable Transformation

What EY can do for you

Investors, regulators and stakeholders across society are increasingly demanding greater transparency from organizations on ESG and sustainability performance to help assess long-term value. To meet stakeholder demands, organizations should broaden the scope of their reporting and seek new ways of communicating strategic performance with both nonfinancial and financial metrics.

Organizations are increasingly prioritizing their ESG and sustainability responsibilities. They appreciate that paying attention to the longer term, stakeholder perceptions, and the social and environmental consequences of their operations can be good for business as well as the planet.

To provide trust and confidence in ESG and sustainability responsibilities to the market and create long-term value, organizations should be managing ESG and sustainability performance with the same rigor as financial performance.

EY teams can support clients as they seek to integrate ESG and sustainability into business strategy and improve and communicate their ESG and sustainability performance to stakeholders.

This can help businesses to:

• Increase the value of sustainability and supply chain strategies
• Mitigate risk and build a reputation to maintain a social license to operate and grow
• Reduce costs
• Improve decision-making and increase operational and performance effectiveness to deliver long-term value

Our specialized team bring together professionals with experience in business, engineering, science and operations, and offer services to assist with the following:

• Sustainability strategy development, design and implementation support
• Stakeholder engagement, prioritization and analysis
• Materiality assessments
• ESG maturity assessments
• Advice on sustainability risks in the value chain
• Advice on responsible investment
• Supply chain sustainability management
• Circular economy mapping and advisory
• Code of conduct and ethics effectiveness and implementation assessments
• Training, development and capacity building
• Policy development and research
• Portfolio sustainability risk and opportunity assessment

EY’s sustainability team can also support with:

Responsible investment advisory

EY teams have extensive experience assisting small and large financial institutions in developing and implementing responsible investment and ESG programs. This includes assisting with:

• Developing and refining overarching responsible investing (RI) policies and frameworks
• Implementing RI and ESG processes and controls to support consistent and timely decision-making
• Executing ESG due diligence

ESG Maturity Model

• Institutional investors globally are redeploying capital to organizations that better manage these ESG risks. Businesses should therefore look to have a clear understanding of the full range and magnitude of issues that can impact their ESG performance, and help them attract and retain capital while protecting long-term value.
• EY teams have developed the ESG Maturity Model to help organizations assess their ESG maturity, and to help align and close the gap between financial and nonfinancial performance.