Helping companies take charge of their ESG journey.

The ESG business landscape is increasingly becoming more demanding, with escalating pressures and requirements stemming from numerous public and private actors across all sectors of the economy.

To date, the primary focus, from legislators to investors, has been on large, publicly listed organisations. While this remains the case, this focus is now expanding to include a broader spectrum of businesses, encompassing new sectors, geographies, and smaller enterprises.

These more diverse and smaller businesses are being requested and/or mandated to look at their ESG-related impacts and dependencies for a variety of reasons. Some of these are relatively straightforward, such as the ratcheting up of companies being brought into scope of regulations, while other drivers are less linear, such as information requests or contractual obligations being cascaded by larger organisations onto their suppliers.

Why care about ESG?

In the wake of these developments, SMEs and start-ups alike will have to integrate ESG and wider sustainability considerations in a bid to stay attractive and, in the long-term, viable.

While your business may not be affected by these laws, shareholder demands, or consumer requests, it is likely that these will eventually become more relevant to your business over the coming years. Nevertheless, proactively engaging with ESG principles and integrating them into your operations can provide benefits that extend beyond compliance.

Although not all ESG issues and opportunities will be pertinent to your business model, there are several, nearly universal advantages to adopting strong ESG practices. These include enhanced brand reputation, improved talent attraction and retention, better risk management, and access to a broader range of capital. These advantages, though not all immediately apparent, offer both financial and non- financial benefits that will, over time, outweigh the initial resources invested to achieve them.