Sustainability Services
We help clients address sustainability and climate change issues.
For over 15 years, we have been helping companies address multiple issues they face in their daily business life in the area of sustainable development, climate change and occupational health and safety (OHS).
By embedding ESG factors in their growth strategy and business processes, companies can remain resilient to external challenges and better position themselves to attract investment even in an unpredictable economic environment.
A deeper understanding of sustainability risks and opportunities and related response measures helps companies focus on the right targets and operate more effectively, while high transparency allows them to feel more confident with partners and earn trust from stakeholders.
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years serving clients by helping them meet their sustainability, climate change and OHS goals
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qualified experts with proven track record and subject-matter expertise
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successful projects delivered for clients from diverse industries
HOW WE CAN HELP
Strategic consulting
Drawing on many years of professional experience and expertise, we help clients build and implement a robust sustainability strategy and framework aimed at creating sustained business value for clients, partners and all stakeholders. To survive and even grow in an increasingly challenging regulatory and competitive environment, we help businesses take a comprehensive approach to setting their ESG goals and developing effective solutions, complete with implementation tools and methods, thus driving better value and outcomes and strengthening resilience both in the short and long term.
- Conducting an ESG maturity assessment and recommending improvements
- Developing and implementing a sustainability strategy, including the integration of ESG in the business strategy
- Setting qualitative and quantitative sustainability goals and developing a set of KPIs
- Developing and improving corporate processes to drive key principles and strategic priorities across sustainability performance
- Checking current ESG ratings and setting a road map for improving them
- Assisting in completing assessment questionnaires and communicating with rating agencies
- Preparing ESG factsheets and presentations for investors and other stakeholders
- Assisting in improving non-financial reporting as well as data collection, validation and analysis
- Advising on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI): diagnostics and strategy
- Conducting ethics audits
- Assessing ESG performance
Climate change
Our pragmatic approach helps clients respond to physical climate risks and adapt to new markets and settings as the world moves towards carbon regulation. Our service offering, from measuring your organization’s carbon footprint to identifying and assessing climate risks and opportunities, supporting climate projects and developing a decarbonization strategy, will help you gear up for upcoming changes in carbon regulation, reduce losses in the event of a negative climate scenario, as well as look for potential ways to develop and grow your business.
- Making a greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventory and calculating Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions
- Conducting a qualitative and quantitative assessment of climate risks and opportunities
- Verifying GHG emissions and the carbon footprint across products
- Developing a decarbonization strategy, including emissions in the supply chain
- Assisting in determining the needs and potential of carbon projects and carbon markets, including voluntary markets
Occupational health and safety
We help companies to improve their occupational health and safety (OHS) processes, considering the best national and international practices and raising safety culture among their employees. Proposed modern solutions can facilitate companies to make health, safety and environment (HSE) a robust enabler of effective and undisrupted operations and avoid business and reputational damage.
- Safety culture assessment and development
- Strategic consulting and OHS transformation
- OHS risk management
- Contractors safety management
- OHS innovation and digitalization
- HSE risk assessment as part of a transaction risk analysis
- Assessment of OHS practices for compliance with local regulatory requirements
Responsible finance
Companies must factor ESG aspects into their lending and investment decisions to achieve a higher return on investment in the long term. At B1, we are well poised to help drive that. We work together with our Financial Services team to advise clients on how to use sustainable financial instruments. We also establish approaches to managing ESG risks emanating from clients’ lending and investing activities.
- Verification of sustainable financial instruments
- Advising on transition to responsible finance and investment principles
- Advising on the use of green, social and sustainable financial instruments
- Establishing ESG-driven approaches to segmenting loan and investment portfolios and assigning ESG scores to borrowers
- Climate stress-testing of the portfolio
Responsible supply chain
Companies must understand potential threats to their supply chains, which may be prompted, in particular, by human rights abuse, resource shortages, climate change and adverse corporate governance practices. We advise our clients on managing environmental and social risks across the entire supply chain to help them build a resilient supply chain and robust procurement processes, create brand loyalty among stakeholders and minimize the likelihood of experiencing reputational damage.
- Advising on risks across the entire value chain
- Supporting the development and implementation of a responsible supply chain management strategy
- Evaluating the effectiveness of vendor selection policies and procedures against international and local standards and best practices, as well as duty of care requirements
- Audits of suppliers and contractors to check compliance with international ESG standards and OHS requirements
Verification of non-financial reports
To ensure a robust reporting process in compliance with best practices and standards, as well as to provide high-quality disclosures aimed at building greater trust among stakeholders, our experts support clients in verifying their non-financial reports, which may cover either the entire report or certain information contained therein, such as GHG emissions, green projects, etc.
- Verifying non-financial reports
- Verifying selected/significant sustainability indicators and statements in non-financial, annual or integrated reports
- Verifying GHG emissions and a carbon footprint across products
Sustainability training
We help companies train their staff members and executives across diverse sustainability aspects, including both broad training and training in specific ESG areas.
- Providing training to staff members and executives across diverse sustainability aspects, including both general training and/or training in specific ESG areas
- Training for staff members and executives on best practices in OHS governance
- Training programs for responsible employees on non-financial reporting standards and practices
- Training programs for risk officers on methodological support of sustainability risk management processes
- Training for employees involved in the responsible procurement management system on ESG risk assessment and management, as well as regulatory changes in supply chain management
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training for staff members and executives
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B1 has been listed as a national verifier for sustainable development financial instruments
B1 Group has been added to the national register of verifiers for sustainable development financial instruments.
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