Discover the full scope of your business's impact to uncover risks and seize opportunities.
Impact management for sustainable business strategy
Informed decision making for growth
Understanding the environmental, social, and commercial impacts of your strategic decisions can pave the way for transformative growth and resilience.
Our impact management solutions offer a full view of your organisation’s impacts, helping you unlock value and discover hidden risks and opportunities. With a unified approach, our solutions enable you to measure performance and lead strategy, across the organisation.
Meeting investor expectations
Investors are increasingly seeking sustainability reports that detail a company's environmental and societal impact. They also want transparency on the financial implications of these impacts, as highlighted in our PwC survey.
To meet these demands, our solutions help you define a clear, objective approach and a unified reporting framework, offering real value across impacts.
Navigating regulation
Businesses must disclose how sustainability issues impact their operations in order to comply with the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) guidelines.
Quantifying business impact in financial terms can enhance your reporting, support materiality assessments, and identify related dependencies.
Measuring impact with AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is crucial in assessing business impact by providing a faster way to gather and process vast amounts of data. Three key actions stand out:
- Collecting data across operations for impact measurement
- Analysing data to help decision-makers spot trends, uncover blind spots, and compare strategies with results
- Modelling and testing solutions for various scenarios to determine the best path forward
We’ll help you speed up your impact measurement through automated data collection, modelling, and technology solutions.
Managing costs
Understanding your impact helps you identify exposure and the related cost implications for your business. With this insight, you can make informed financial decisions to avoid fines and penalties while staying competitive and appealing to investors.
How we help
With over a decade of experience working alongside organisations and industry bodies, we’ve led the way in developing methods for measuring and valuing impact.
We are members of many leading groups that aim to standardise how organisations approach impact measurement. Our impact solutions combine our extensive sustainability experience with our financial reporting capabilities, helping businesses weigh trade-offs and tackle tough questions.
- Unlocking the full picture
- Know the cost of doing nothing
- Transformation with trust
- Tangible and actionable outcomes
Unlocking the full picture
Gain the full picture to drive strategy
We offer a holistic approach that draws on the perspectives of social and environmental scientists, economists, reporting specialists, engineers, and data architects. Placing a monetary value on impacts allows you to objectively compare scenarios and shape your business strategy.
Economic impact
We help you measure how business activities affect the economy in any area, tracking changes in economic growth and employment.
Tax impact
Access your business’s contribution to public finances, including taxes on profits, people, production, property, and environmental taxes.
Environmental impact
Evaluate the effects on natural resources from specific projects to determine their long-term viability and align with regulator and stakeholder expectations.
Social impact
Gauge the effects of your business activities on society, including health, education, and livelihoods.
Know the cost of doing nothing
When it comes to addressing environmental performance, many businesses struggle to calculate the cost of doing nothing. We can quantify that cost. We'll translate it into profit and loss, and help businesses explore different paths forward.
Transformation with trust
Our impact measurement solutions will help you understand your environmental impact as you explore scenarios for reinventing your business models. The outcome is a roadmap that fosters growth and resilience for the future.
Tangible and actionable outcomes
We offer evidence-based, quantifiable insights that help you improve understanding across various areas, including research and development, purchasing, sourcing, capital expenditure appraisals, performance management against commitments and targets, and external reporting.
Specialisation in your industry
With our deep industry insights across various sectors and our effective impact measurement tools, we help you make strategic and informed investment choices.
Should a brewery import barley or cultivate it locally?
A brewer seeks a balanced, holistic analysis to evaluate sourcing options. Our impact measurement solutions provide insights into both choices, helping to make informed decisions. This fresh perspective can address supply security and currency risks, while also enabling the brewer to craft a long-term business strategy and showcase the impact of business decisions to stakeholders.
Should an enterprise build an ‘impact aware eco-friendly’ hotel or keep its traditional hotel business model?
A hotel group has the option of building and operating a new hotel on a greenfield site on a Caribbean island. Our impact measurement solutions assist in evaluating the economic, tax, environmental, and social impacts on the island, as well as the financial performance of both options.
Should a mining company expand and repair an existing access road or construct a new one?
By understanding and comparing the long-term impacts, the mining company can make informed decisions, manage design approval challenges, and maintain its social license to operate. This analysis helps the business grasp the costs and benefits in terms of brand value, reputation, and financial performance.
Should a government department invest in a major transport infrastructure project?
A government department is unsure whether a proposed investment in transport infrastructure will add value. Faced with high costs and network demands, our impact measurement solutions evaluate how both the existing and prospective plans affect the local and national economy. These findings can demonstrate to stakeholders the department's potential impact on the region and economy.
How can a wastewater treatment company reduce its impact on the marine environment?
A wastewater treatment company is discharging its effluent water into nearby coastal waters. Under pressure to reduce its impact on the marine environment, the company wants a balanced view on the long-term impacts of its options. Our impact measurement solutions can help the company understand how its decisions will affect the environment and society. Our work enables the company to develop a strategy, while showing stakeholders that the company is making informed decisions.
Additional sustainability services
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Contact us
Superna Khosla
Director, Global Sustainability Reporting, PwC United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 (0) 7801 916783
