Sustainability

For companies looking to improve their business performance and create long-term shareholder value, PwC develops sustainability strategy, performance management and reporting solutions.

It assists clients in the areas of corporate governance and business ethics, environmental health and safety management, social responsibility, strategy and economics (climate change and clean development mechanism), responsible supply-chain management and reporting and assurance of non-financial information.

If this is your situation:

• You need to understand your key corporate responsibility/sustainability issues and their social, environmental and economic impact
• You are concerned about the impact of social, environmental or ethical issues on your brands or overall reputation
• You need to understand who your key stakeholders are and develop a stakeholder engagement programme
• You need to develop or improve your corporate responsibility/sustainability:
  • Governance structure
  • Policy framework
  • Risk management processes, including supply chains
  • Performance measurement framework and reporting systems and processes
• You need independent assurance to:
  • Provide an assessment of the quality of your management systems and performance data and/or to support your internal audit programme
  • Add credibility to the published information in your sustainability or corporate responsibility report
• You are making a new investment, or divesting part of your business, and need due diligence work to be carried out to determine the nature and extent of any environmental/health and safety liabilities
• You need to develop a carbon strategy, identifying clean development mechanism (CDM) projects to reduce your carbon emissions and defining your approach to carbon trading

• Develop a corporate responsibility/sustainability strategy that is focused on key business issues and add social, environmental and economic value
• Assess sources of reputational risk and implement measures to mitigate these risks
• Improve understanding of sustainability reporting and/or performance measures against your own standards, peers and best practice
• Enhance relationships with key stakeholder groups
• Better management of corporate responsibility/sustainability risks and opportunities
• Benchmark life cycle impacts and assess the advantages of product ecolabeling
• Create a portfolio of carbon assets and assist you in registration of eligible Clean Development Mechanism projects and monetizing the carbon credits

Our Services:

• Sustainability reporting
• Sustainability assurance
• Climate change services including CDM project design and development and transaction and greenhouse gas accounting
• Economic sustainability – Life Cycle Assessment and Ecolabeling
• Corporate environment, health, safety and social compliance
• Sustainability management systems including ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, SA 8000
• Supply chain integrity
• Transaction support – environmental/health and safety and social due diligence and audits