Sustainable Environmental Consultancy

Our ESG team advises companies on their entire ESG journey from strategy formulation through to execution, working with teams on the ground. We have developed an ESG scoring framework that assesses a company on 50-65 ESG areas (client tailored) with current and target scores set, along with a detailed action plan to reach the target scores. Our multi-disciplinary teams are on hand to deliver any of the recommendations from the above analysis. This includes employee surveys, supplier vetting, customer engagement, bid / sales support, ESG impact reports, policy creation and delivering a Net Zero programme.

As well as our trading desk procures energy contracts and renewals effectively. We do this by taking advantage of market changes, monitoring consumption to identify areas where energy use can be reduced. We provide alarm alerts and insightful energy dashboards in our self-service portal. We manage and accelerate the delivery of utility infrastructure connections and metering which speeds up the opening of new premises and often at a lower cost.

Our waste division find eco-friendly disposal methods for everything from food to clinical waste, with an ultimate goal of both reducing costs and increasing recycling levels. We offer a full account management service, provide a UK helpdesk, compliance portal and reporting.

Many of our clients’ businesses operate from multiple sites in sectors such as education, healthcare, hospitality, construction and manufacturing and have a total of more than 8,000 sites we support.

An Intelligent approach to environmental, social and governance performance

It is vital for every business to take accountability for their environmental, social and governance performance. Sustainable Advantage works with its clients to improve their understanding and operations, whilst showcasing their successes.

Environmental

We help companies, in their use of natural resources, to improve their impact on the environment. This includes support with monitoring, analysing and presenting energy, waste, water, transport and carbon emissions data.

Social

Increasingly, companies are recognising their impact on people. We highlight our clients’ current and future initiatives, demonstrating how they positively impact their employees, customers and communities across their business activity.

Governance

Every company requires good governance and transparency around their decision-making. We assist our clients by ensuring their policies, leadership and strategic direction are in line with their sustainability goals.

Our deliverables include:

Working directly with our clients to understand their business’ culture, activity and requirements

Benchmarking performance against our clients’ key competitors, their clients and prospective clients

Creating an annual Sustainability / ESG Report that matches our clients’ needs, outlining key metrics, actions and future plans

Providing our clients with ongoing assistance and resources to deliver proactive change

Our deliverables include:

Working directly with our clients to understand their business’ culture, activity and requirements

Benchmarking performance against our clients’ key competitors, their clients and prospective clients

Creating an annual Sustainability / ESG Report that matches our clients’ needs, outlining key metrics, actions and future plans

Providing our clients with ongoing assistance and resources to deliver proactive change

Why manual ESG reporting is challenging

Data is often strewn across multiple businesses or kept in spreadsheets – metrics for carbon, energy, waste, water and social indicators are captured from different sources, making them difficult to access in a consolidated way for reporting and decision making.

Data quality is inconsistent and unreliable – producing ESG reports requires confidence in the data to create value and make decisions. Consistency and comparability are essential elements of an effective data set.

Time and labour intensive – the process to calculate energy, carbon emissions and waste data based on different factors, different reporting boundaries and calculation methods can be arduous.

Our Solution

We recognise that each company is at a different stage in their journey with a unique set of objectives. We take a hands-on approach to embed ESG into your existing systems and frameworks.

Quality data and acting on data

On the back of our well-established direct relationships with energy, waste and water providers across the UK, we work collaboratively with our clients to gather verifiable ESG data to be consistent, uniform and timely.

We are also in the unique position of delivering environmental services on the ground to be able to effect rapid change and deliver on ESG policies and strategies. This includes advising clients on the urgent steps they need to take to reduce carbon emissions and ultimately achieve carbon neutrality.

The social strategy

The challenge exists in quantifying the ‘S’ in ESG – an area that requires more focus than it has received up to now. Socially minded investors are increasingly watching, listening and seeking more information about how companies are addressing social issues. Companies often either don’t do enough on this front or don’t know what to measure or how to measure it. Sustainable Advantage’s approach is to work with organisations to help drive their initiatives, capture their achievements and bring them to life in the annual Impact Report.

Regulation, compliance and strategy

ESG Policy and Strategy creation

Establish an ESG Steering Committee to implement the ESG strategy and benchmark progress against a set of quantifiable performance indicators